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The Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest Order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur.The following have been named as Knights of the Round Table:
The legend of King Arthur is probably best known from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, but other chroniclers of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table include Chrétien de Troyes, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Robert de Boron. Sir Thomas Malory describes the Knights' code of chivalry as:
The Winchester Round Table, which dates from the 1270s, lists 25 names of knights including the 22 listed above. Knights of the Round Table was also a 1953 movie based on the Arthurian legend.
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