Gahmuret

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Gahmuret is Parzival's father , the real hero in Wolframs von Eschenbach 's Middle High German verse novel of the same name .

Wolfram tells the fate of his father as a prehistory in the first two books. In all likelihood, he largely designed the narrative himself, unlike the central story of Parzival and the Grail, which goes back to a French model by Chrétien de Troyes . For this reason, the gahmuret books are of particular interest to many scientists.

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Gahmuret is the younger son of King Gandin von Anschouwe . After his death, the older of the two sons is said to inherit the dead king alone. However, according to the people's wish, Gahmuret should receive half of the inheritance to serve justice. Although the older brother agrees to the division of the inheritance, Gahmuret, who prefers to explore the world, demands nothing more than a baggage train for a trip. After he has been granted what he asks, he goes on a scouting trip.

His journey goes east to the Orient , which Wolfram does not - as was customary at the time - describe as extremely miraculous, but in a very sober tone. This also applies to his depictions of the Gentiles . In the Orient Gahmuret marries the beautiful Moorish Queen Belakane . The marriage results in a child with half white and half black skin, called feirefiz . However, Gahmuret leaves his wife before his birth, ostensibly because Belakane was not baptized, but certainly also because he loves adventure and therefore does not want to commit himself, so that he never gets to see his son from the connection with Belakane.

Later in Spain he won the prize in a tournament of the young widowed Herzeloyde , a sister of the Grail King Anfortas. Although Gahmuret does not want to enter into this marriage at first, Herzeloyde forces him to accept the tournament prize. Gahmuret only agrees after Herzeloyde has admitted that he can attend tournaments regularly. The two lived in great love for eighteen months before Gahmuret's thirst for adventure reappeared and he abandoned a pregnant wife for the second time and never returned.

Before the birth of her son Parzival, Herzeloyde found out about the death of her husband, who had perished in a battle during a recent trip to the Orient. This moves his wife Herzeloyde to live with their son Parzival in the wilderness to prevent him from a life as a knight and adventurer so that she does not lose him too.

Parzival later gains access to the Grail Court through his mother's relationship with the Grail King. On the other hand, he owes his relationship to the Arthurian court to his father. Thus, the two great kinship lines of the novel connect in Parzival.

The twofold course of the gahmuret story should also be mentioned: the first book, the trip to the Orient, and the second book, the marriage with Herzeloyde, show significant parallels: both women are only recently widowed queens and are unusually aggressive in courting gahmuret. In the end, both of them are left pregnant by him, as Gahmuret cannot let go of his chivalrous adventures.