Chrétien's protagonist, Erec. In Geraint and Enid, Geraint's father was said to be a shepherd named Erbin. According to Chrétien's Culhwch and Olwen, Geraint had brothers Ermind and Dywel. Geraint and Enid was reworked by Alfred Tennyson into the poems The Marriage of Geraint and Geraint and Enid, part of his Idylls of the King. The Arthurian character in later works is often referred to as Sir Geraint. Saint Geraint According to the vita of Saint Teilo, in 549, in order to avoid the Plague of Justinian ("peste gialla del 547") then sweeping through Britain, Teilo, with a small group of monks, left Llandaff to join Samson of Dol in Brittany. Passing through Dumnonia, they were received hospitably by King Geraint at Din Gerrein. In gratitude, Teilo promised the King his spiritual assistance at the hour of death. Seven years later, Teilo returned to give the King the last rites. Perhaps because of the relationships that bound him to Teilo, he too was proclaimed holy. Near Falmouth, local legends of the folk saint King Geraint, patron saint of Gerrans, claim he was buried on Carne Beacon near Veryan. Gerrans celebrates his festival on the second Sunday in August. His feast day is 10 August. References 6th-century Christian saints Arthurian characters Knights of the Round Table Medieval English saints Medieval Welsh saints Monarchs of Dumnonia Southwestern Brythonic saints