HERVISE DE REVEL
Hervi de Revel

An excellent knight who, Vulgate III tells us, was already of a "great age" at the beginning of Arthur's reign. Malory mentions him twice, the first time as doing "marvellous deeds with King Arthur" in the battle against the rebel kings at Terrabil, the second time as being chosen, on Pellinore's advice, to fill one of the empty seats at the Round Table after the battle with the five invading kings [of Denmark, etc] at the Humber.

Hervise de Revel may be a character with a rich history of his own, who was either incorporated into the Arthurian cycle or whose original importance was crowded into the background by more recently added characters.

Robert Browning's poem Hervé Riel is about a Breton sailor and hero of the late seventeenth century.