User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Lance-uh-not/@comment-5933518-20130103163505

Lancelot was invented by Chretien de Troyes, a male French poet of the 12th Century. Prior to this, he was unknown.

As for Elaine of Corbenic, she tricked him into thinking that she was Guinevere by drugging him so she could spend the night with him.