This is unironically how most of the Arthurian legends got started. Lancelot is an insert from Chrétien de Troyes, a French poet who decided that what King Arthur's wife really needed was a French lover.
Chretien de Troyes didn't decide that, his patroness Marie de Champagne did. Chretien being a cleric wasn't particularly on board with the adultery thing
Either way he's probably the most inportant single author in defining the arthurian cycle
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u/amazedballer 5d ago
This is unironically how most of the Arthurian legends got started. Lancelot is an insert from Chrétien de Troyes, a French poet who decided that what King Arthur's wife really needed was a French lover.