Etymology

Gorlois

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Today it means: The husband of Igraine prior to Uther Pendragon, in Arthurian legend. Full definition →

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The story

The name first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.