page_title: Bors
hierarchical_section_title: Bors
caption_attribution_description: English: Howard Pyle's illustration for The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions.
context_page_description: Bors is the name of two knights in Arthurian legend, one the elder of the younger. The two first appear in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail romance prose cycle. Bors the Elder is the King of Gaunnes during the early period of King Arthur's reign, and is the brother of King Ban of Benoic and the father of Bors the Younger and Lionel. His son Bors the Younger later becomes one of the best Knights of the Round Table and participates in the achievement of the Holy Grail.
context_section_description: Bors (/ˈbɔːrz/; French: Bohort) is the name of two knights in Arthurian legend, one the elder of the younger. The two first appear in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail romance prose cycle. Bors the Elder is the King of Gaunnes (Gannes/Gaunes/Ganis) during the early period of King Arthur's reign, and is the brother of King Ban of Benoic and the father of Bors the Younger and Lionel. His son Bors the Younger later becomes one of the best Knights of the Round Table and participates in the achievement of the Holy Grail.
caption: Sir Bors de Ganis in Howard Pyle's illustration for The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (1907)
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