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Blanchefleur ("white flower", also ''Blanziflor, Flanziflor'', cy, Blodyngwyn) is a female given name popular in the High Middle Ages.
Fictional characters with the name include:
*The mother of
Sir Tristan, sister of
King Mark
Mark of Cornwall ( la, Marcus, kw, Margh, cy, March, br, Marc'h) was a sixth-century King of Kernow (Cornwall), possibly identical with King Conomor. He is best known for his appearance in Arthurian legend as the uncle of Tristan and the husb ...
and wife of Lord Rivalin.
*The heroine of ''
Floris and Blanchefleur''.
*Daughter of Theirry, King of Morianel, in ''
Garin le Loherain
The 12th-century ''chanson de geste'' of ''Garin le Loherain'' ('Garin the Lotharingian'), together with the slightly later ''Girbert de Metz'', form the core and initial parts of the so-called ''Lorraine cycle'', which was expanded in the 13th ...
''.
*Niece of
Gornemant and wife of
Percival
Percival (, also spelled Perceval, Parzival), alternatively called Peredur (), was one of King Arthur's legendary Knights of the Round Table. First mentioned by the French author Chrétien de Troyes in the tale ''Perceval, the Story of the Gr ...
, cousin of Gurzgi, Lascoyt, Schentefleurs and Liaze.
Arthurian characters
French feminine given names
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