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Guinevere is said to be the daughter of Leodegrance of Cameliard in late medieval romance. She marries Arthur and then
has a love affair with Lancelot which causes the downfall of Camelot. The Welsh Triads speak of "Arthur's Three Great
Queens," all named Gwenhwyfar (Triad 56) and name Gwenhwyfar as "more faithless" than the three faithless wives of
the Island of Britain (Triad 80). One of the earliest Arthurian stories is about the abduction of Guinevere by Meleagant
(or Melyagaunce or Melwas). The story is told in The Life of St. Gildas (c. 1130) by Caradoc of Llancarfan and in the
Welsh "Dialogue of Melwas and Gwenhwyfar." It is the subject of the earliest known Arthurian sculpture on the archivolt of
the Porta della Pescheria on the Modena Cathedral. The story of the abduction is the central action in Chrétien de Troyes'
Lancelot and appears in Malory. Tennyson presents Guinevere as a sinner who was "spoilt the purpose" of Arthur's life.
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