It is an irony of history that this least Arthurian of kings died in the same year as [[Sir Thomas Mallory]], the man whose ''Morte d’Arthur'' was written to reflect the high point of the chivalric ethos and would bring the legends surrounding [[King Arthur]] and his knights to posterity. | It is an irony of history that this least Arthurian of kings died in the same year as [[Sir Thomas Mallory]], the man whose ''Morte d’Arthur'' was written to reflect the high point of the chivalric ethos and would bring the legends surrounding [[King Arthur]] and his knights to posterity. |