Pelles, King

Pelles, King, ‘The Grail King’, in Malory's Morte D'Arthur, one of the Fisher Kings and said to be ‘cousin nigh unto Joseph of Arimathie’. Founded perhaps on Pwyll of Welsh mythology, he was the father of Elaine who was the mother of Galahad by Launcelot.

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