Igraine Forgotten Mother of Thee

In history I was known only as the mother of King Arthur as if that was my only purpose in this life but I was so much more than that. It was said my beauty was beyond all others in my life time as if that did define the person I was within, as if I were no more than that, as if my beauty I did use.
I was Igraine, the mother of Morgause, my daughter who came to be filled with evil and anger, the sister who did betray her brother King Arthur in the worst possible way by laying with him and from this Mordred she did begot to lay ruin to the kingdom of Camelot, my son who came to reign as its high king. I was Igraine, mother to Elaine the quietest of my children with the kindest of hearts who seem to disappear from history’s sight when married off she was by High King Uther and lastly to my youngest daughter, Morgana who did accept Arthur as her beloved brother and love him as such.

Before Uther I was the wife of Duke Gorlois of Cornwall, who was a great warrior who in helping High King Uther defeat the Saxons in battle did bring the warlord into our lives. There to be seen by him the man who did lust for my body to be his no matter that wed I was to one who was loyal to him. If never for this High King Arthur would not have came into being it was said thus the wizard Merlin’s vision of a great and mighty king would not have came to be.

For I was the one Merlin did see as being the mother of King Arthur in his prophecies I came to know in the years that did come to pass. By magic and potions he had made this come to be within my life. From his magic use I became Uther’s High Queen a role that I cared not to have but with strength and grace it was said I did survive Uther’s lust for many a year. Many did say I did make Uther into a great high king for I was the only one who could bring the blood of kings to the table that did need to be to mixed with his thus to make the kingdom great.

I was born of royal blood, a princess, yet I did choose to be wed to Duke Gorlois and with him did I find true love. Yet by Uther taken from me the life I did love was.
To Uther I did not give into his lust because I did long to but to protect my children from what might come upon them if I did not. For in battle declared upon us by Uther my husband Duke Gorlois did come to pass leaving me without a protector against the warlord and his lust for my body. Upon his chessboard I was placed as his queen a position never did I care to have. For I had all I did long for in my life with the Duke before the warlord did take my happiness away for his own selfish reason. Before I was forced to become his high queen so each night he could lay with me in his lust and present to him a heir. But willingly never did I care to do such yet him I could not escape for there within his golden cage I was trapped unable to escape.