Mordred or Modred ( or ; Welsh: Medraut or Medrawt) is a figure in the legend of King Arthur. The earliest known mention of a possibly historical Medraut is in the Welsh chronicle Annales Cambriae, wherein he and Arthur are ambiguously associated with the Battle of Camlann in a brief entry for the year 537. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mordred has received more than 4,120,050 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Mordred is the 83rd most popular companion (down from 62nd in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 228th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Companion.
Mordred is most famous for being the illegitimate son of King Arthur and the half-sister Morgan le Fay. He is also famous for being the person who killed King Arthur.
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Among companions, Mordred ranks 83 out of 673. Before him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Carlota of Mexico, Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, Hortense de Beauharnais, and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. After him are Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal, Maria Feodorovna, Brigitte Macron, Isabella of Austria, and Malhun Hatun.
1901 - 2004
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 77
1932 - 2001
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 78
1840 - 1927
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 79
1584 - 1611
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 80
1783 - 1837
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 81
1946 - Present
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 82
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 83
1807 - 1876
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 84
1507 - 1578
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 85
1759 - 1828
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 86
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 87
1501 - 1526
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 88
1350 - 1324
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 89
Among people born in United Kingdom, Mordred ranks 280 out of 7,765. Before him are Jane Goodall (1934), Benjamin Britten (1913), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Peter Higgs (1929), Alec Guinness (1914), and Daniel Craig (1968). After him are Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), Anne Brontë (1820), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), George Michael (1963), William Wordsworth (1770), and William Ramsay (1852).
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 274
1913 - 1976
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 275
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 276
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 277
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 278
1968 - Present
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 279
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 280
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 281
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 282
1619 - 1655
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 283
1963 - 2016
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 284
1770 - 1850
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 285
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 286
Among companions born in United Kingdom, Mordred ranks 14. Before him are Mary Boleyn (1499), Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Margaret Tudor (1489), Mary of Teck (1867), and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901). After him are Anne Hathaway (1556), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), Maud of Wales (1869), Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848), and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862).
1499 - 1543
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 8
1496 - 1533
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 9
1846 - 1923
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 10
1489 - 1541
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 11
1867 - 1953
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 12
1901 - 2004
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 13
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 14
1556 - 1623
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 15
1887 - 1969
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 16
1863 - 1950
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 17
1869 - 1938
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 18
1848 - 1939
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 19
1862 - 1938
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 20