Sir Terwin was a knight who was killed by Despair in the first book of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
His companion, Sir Trevisan, managed to escape and find the Redcrosse knight and Una, leading them back to the cave where Despair lived.
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Arthurian Bibliography
- Norris Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra Mancoff – The Arthurian Handbook (Second Edition)
- Alan Lupack – The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
- Ronan Coghlan – The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends
- Anonymous – Lancelot-Grail, the French Vulgate
- Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur
See also my ever-expanding list of primary and secondary sources.