:wave: Hello and welcome to CrashandBurn9, Lexie, and imightsee! All these new shippers! :yay:
Don't worry Neda, I haven't run off. :gone: You haven't gotten rid of me.
Yes, Guiomar is the cousin's name. In some early versions he's Guinevere's nephew.
In some versions of the legends there's also the false Guinevere, a half-sister who has the same father but a different mother.
According to the Vulgate Cycle there were two Guineveres. In Merlin, the second Guinevere was the daughter of King Leodegan and his seneschal's wife. While his seneschal, named Cleodalis, was fighting for his king against the Irish, Leodegan ravished her. The first Guinevere was her mother, the Queen's, child.
The two Guineveres that were born were half-sisters. As they were conceived on the same night, were born on the same day and they looked exactly alike, they were given the same name. Leodegan and his Queen's daughter became King Arthur's Queen.
The other Guinevere was frequently known as the False Guinevere or the Second Guinevere. It was said that the only means of identifying the real Guinevere from the false one, was that she had a birthmark of a king's crown on her back, while the Second Guinevere had none.
The False Guinevere would later cause the separation of King Arthur and his Queen, when she posed as the real Queen and tried to trick King Arthur to execute the real Guinevere. This plan was foiled when Lancelot challenged three of her knights in a trial by combat. Even though, Lancelot won the contest, King Arthur was still in love with the impostor, because she had given him a love potion. The False Guinevere and her accomplice Bertholai confessed to their crime when they were both struck down by mysterious illness, and the impostor died.
In the famous Welsh epic the Mabinogion, the tale called Culhwch and Olwen, Gwenhwyfar or Gwenhwyvar (Guinevere) makes her first appearance. Gwenhwyfar was the daughter of Gogrfan. She was the wife of Arthur. It also mentions that Gwenhwyfar has a sister, named Gwenhwyfach or Gwenhwyach.
Gwenhwyfach, also appeares in the Welsh Triad; she is the wife of Mordred. In the section known as Three Harmful Blows of the Island of Britain:
The second Gwenhwyfach struck upon Gwenhwyfar: and for that cause there took place afterwards the Action of the Battle of Camlan . . .
Remember in the Welsh Triad Arthur is married to three Gwenhwyfars in succession. So, Gwenwyfach would seem to be the sister of the third Gwenhyfar.
:blush: Thanks Liza! :hug: You're really AWESOME yourself!!!
If anybody would like a reading assignment -- you might be interested in: Goddess Dethroned: The Evolution of Morgan le Fay:
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=rs_theses