Palomydes the Saracen

Palomydes the Saracen,
in Malory , a prominent knight and great fighter who follows the Questing Beast and who once abducts Iseult , for whom he entertains an unrequited and mostly selfless passion. He is the great friend of Tristram who has him christened at the end. The French prose romance Palamedes seems to have been written as an addition to the Vulgate Tristan and Lancelot in the early 13th cent.; it achieved enormous popularity in the later Middle Ages and influenced Boiardo and Ariosto , who said it was his favourite among the Arthurian romances.