Meleon is the elder of Mordred’s two sons in Lawman’s Brut, and variant forms of the name, Melehan and Melian, are given to the eldest son of Mordred in the French Vulgate Mort Artu and in the French Post-Vulgate Mort Artu. In other texts the two sons of Mordred are not named. They appear to be based on the two princes whom Gildas (in his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae) blames King Constantine for killing. In later tales they are sons of Mordred who attempt to gain the rule of Britain after their father’s death, but are stopped by the forces of King Constantine or by the forces of Lancelot.