Sir Thomas Malory Knight, prisoner, writer, collator of tales 1414-1471 ‘The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady’ From Newbold Revel in Warwickshire (there were other contemporary Sir Thomas Malorys but this Malory seems to fit the bill.) Born in 1414, the son of a knight, himself a knight, he wrote about knights, compiling a full life of King Arthur and his knights of the…