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* BedmateReveal: The queen finds herself in bed with the leper.


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* NotWhatItLooksLike: The king finds the queen in bed with the leper, and comes to the wrong conclusion.
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'''''Sir Aldingar''''' is Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} #59.

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'''''Sir Aldingar''''' "Sir Aldingar" is Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} #59.

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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The champion
* DamselInDistress: The queen
* DeathbedConfession: Aldingar makes one
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The queen remembers this when accused
* DuelToTheDeath: Aldingar is killed in the fight

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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The champion
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mysterious, possibly angelic champion who fights for the queen.
-->''A louelie child was hee;''
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DamselInDistress: The queen
* DeathbedConfession: Aldingar makes one
is mortally wounded by the mysterious champion, and confesses his MaliciousSlander before he dies.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The queen remembers this when accused
recounts a dream of having been attacked by a grim beast and saved by a little hawk. Now that she has been attacked by MaliciousSlander, she sends a messenger to search for a champion.
* DuelToTheDeath: Aldingar is killed in and the fightmysterious champion's TrialByCombat ends in Aldingar's death.



* MaliciousSlander
* RightMakesMight: A little boy fights and wins
* SwarmOfRats: In prison.
* TrialByCombat: She demands the chance to clear herself.
* WomanScorned: GenderFlipped

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* MaliciousSlander
MaliciousSlander: When the queen rebuffs the titular knight, he puts a leper in her bed and accuses her of adultery to the king.
* RightMakesMight: A The queen's innocence is vindicated by a beautiful little boy fights and wins
who successfully defends her in TrialByCombat against a grown knight.
* SwarmOfRats: In some variants, the queen's hair is unkempt from the mice and rats gnawing on it while in prison.
* TrialByCombat: She The queen demands the chance to clear herself.
this as her right when defending herself against MaliciousSlander.
* WomanScorned: GenderFlippedGenderFlipped. Sir Aldingar slanders the queen with charges of infidelity for having rebuffed his advances.
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* HistoricalFiction: In some versions, the king and queen are [[HenryTheSecond Henry Plantagenet]] and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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* HistoricalFiction: In some versions, the king and queen are [[HenryTheSecond [[UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond Henry Plantagenet]] and Eleanor of Aquitaine.UsefulNotes/EleanorOfAquitaine.
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* HistoricalFiction: In some versions, the king and king are [[HenryTheSecond Henry Plantagenet]] and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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* HistoricalFiction: In some versions, the king and king queen are [[HenryTheSecond Henry Plantagenet]] and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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* HistoricalFiction: In some versions, the king and king are [[HenryTheSecond Henry Plantagenet]] and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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'''''Sir Aldingar''''' is ChildBallad #59.

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'''''Sir Aldingar''''' is ChildBallad Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} #59.
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* HairOfGold: The queen, in one variant.
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* SwarmOfRats: In prison.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The champion
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Francis Child's variants listed [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch059.htm here]].


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* DamselInDistress: The queen


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* HairOfGold: The queen, in one variant.

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The title knight tries to seduce the queen. When she rejects him, he puts a leper in her bed and told the king that she was unfaithful -- and not even with a right good knight. The king orders them both executed.

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The title knight tries to seduce the queen. When she rejects him, he puts a leper in her bed and told the king that she was unfaithful -- and not even with a right good knight. The king orders them both executed. \n The queen demands a trial by combat, if she can get a champion. A messenger in search of one is sent back by what looks like a four-year-old boy, but who knows what the queen dreamed. He appears and mortally wounds Aldingar in the fight. Aldingar confesses. The king and queen are reconciled, and the leper is miracluously cured and serves the king as a steward.


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* DeathbedConfession: Aldingar makes one


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* DuelToTheDeath: Aldingar is killed in the fight


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* RightMakesMight: A little boy fights and wins
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* TrialByCombat: She demands the chance to clear herself.
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'''''Sir Aldingar''''' is ChildBallad #59.

The title knight tries to seduce the queen. When she rejects him, he puts a leper in her bed and told the king that she was unfaithful -- and not even with a right good knight. The king orders them both executed.

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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The queen remembers this when accused
* MaliciousSlander
* WomanScorned: GenderFlipped
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