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* Dame Lynette came to court to fetch a knight to defend her sister, Lady Lyonesse. In Malory, Sir Gareth married Lady Lyonesse; in Tennyson, Lynette.
* Dame Lynette came to court to fetch a knight to defend her sister, Lady Lyonesse. In Malory, Sir Gareth married Lady Lyonesse; in Tennyson, Lynette.
* In Edmund Spenser's ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', Una fetches Saint George to defend her parents and their kingdom. They ''do'' become a couple.
* In Edmund Spenser's ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', Una fetches Saint George to defend her parents and their kingdom. They ''do'' become a couple.
* [[PG Wodehouse (Creator)|P.G. Wodehouse]] gently mocks the convention with Yvonne in his "Sir Agravaine"; she is a distinctly plain girl, and the quest she brings Sir Agravaine into turns out to be of a highly surprising nature.
* [[P. G. Wodehouse]] gently mocks the convention with Yvonne in his "Sir Agravaine"; she is a distinctly plain girl, and the quest she brings Sir Agravaine into turns out to be of a highly surprising nature.
* Teyla the Sorceress in ''[[He-Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of The Universe]]''.
* Teyla the Sorceress in ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]''.
* Naturally, Gerald Morris has quite a few in his Arthurian retellings, ''[[The Squires Tales]]'', although they have a tendency to take on [[Action Girl]] characteristics too. Notable examples include Eileen, Lynette, Ariel, and Lynette's [[Generation Xerox]] daughter.
* Naturally, Gerald Morris has quite a few in his Arthurian retellings, ''[[The Squire's Tales]]'', although they have a tendency to take on [[Action Girl]] characteristics too. Notable examples include Eileen, Lynette, Ariel, and Lynette's [[Generation Xerox]] daughter.
** The Three Questing Ladies play this trope straighter, although in different ways. For example, the eldest of them trains her knights before letting them embark on adventures, and the youngest gets hers killed (by encouraging them to fight other knights until they die valiantly, at which point she latches onto the winning knight, and so on until she returns to the meeting place).
** The Three Questing Ladies play this trope straighter, although in different ways. For example, the eldest of them trains her knights before letting them embark on adventures, and the youngest gets hers killed (by encouraging them to fight other knights until they die valiantly, at which point she latches onto the winning knight, and so on until she returns to the meeting place).


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