Evaine is a minor character in Arthurian legend who appears in the Old French roman Lancelot do Lac (c.1215-20; incorporated into the Vulgate Lancelot). She is the sister of Lancelot's mother Elaine. She and her sister are married to brother kings (Bors, King of Gaul and Ban, King of Benoic, respectively) and suffer parallel fates, both women losing their husbands and sons and then entering the same convent. In Evaine's case, she is widowed when her husband dies, either in battle or from grief after learning about his brother's death; feeling unsafe from attack, she flees with her two sons, Lionel and Bors the Younger (who later achieves the Holy Grail), but tragically, her boys are captured and imprisoned by the enemy (Claudas). Evaine alone manages to escape, and goes to her sister who,