Gaelic "falcon in battle"

Sir Galahad (pronounced /ˈɡæləhæd/; Welsh: Gwalchavad), sometimes referred to as Galeas (/ɡəˈliːəs/) or Galath (/ˈɡæləθ/), is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. He is the illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic, and is renowned for his gallantry and purity. Emerging quite late in the medieval Arthurian tradition, he is perhaps the knightly embodiment of Jesus in the Arthurian legends. Sir Galahad first appears in the Lancelot-Grail cycle, and his story is taken up in later works such as the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.