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In king arthur's knights, who was sir mordred

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Mordred was the illegitimate son of King Arthur Pendragon and his half-sister Morgause.
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Sir Mordred was Arthur's illegitimate son by his half-sister Morgause.

The wizard Merlin prophesied that Arthut's son would kill him, for which the King demanded all babies to be murdered.

Mordred survived and was raised by a fisherman and his wife. He was later taken by a sorceress named Nyneve to live with his mother in the Kingdom of Lothian. At age 15, he went to serve as a knight to King Arthur.

However, he betrayed Arthur and fought him in the Battle of Camlann, where he injured his father fataly before dying, fulfilling Merlin's prophecy.

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