Chapter Book of Martyrs to Bors of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Borre , natural son of king Arthur, and one of the knights of the Round Table. His mother was Lyonors, an earl’s daughter, who came to do homage to the young king.—Sir T. Malory: History of Prince Arthur, i. 15 (1470).

Sir Bors de Ganis is quite another person, and so is king Bors of Gaul.

Borrioboola Gha, in Africa. (See Jellyby, Mrs.)

Borromeo (Charles), cardinal and archbishop of Milan. Immortalized by his self-devotion in ministering at Milan to the plague-stricken (1538–1584).

St. Roche, who died 1327, devoted himself in a similar manner to those stricken with the plague at Piacenza; and Mompesson to the people of Eyam. In 1720–22 H. Francis Xavier de Belsunce was indefatigable in ministering to the plague-stricken of Marseilles.

Borrowing. Who goeth a-borrowing, goeth a-sorrowing.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, XV. 8 and again xlii. 6 (1557).

Bors (King) of Gaul, brother of king Ban of Benwicke [? Brittany]. They went to the aid of prince Arthur when he was first established on the British throne, and Arthur promised in return to aid them against king Claudas, “a mighty man of men,” who warred against them.—Sir T. Malory: History of Prince Arthur (1470).

There are two brethren beyond the sea, and they kings both … the one hight king Ban of Benwicke, and the other hight king Bors of Gaul,that is France.—Pt. i. 8.

(Sir Bors was of Ganis, that is, Wales, and was a knight of the Round Table. So also was Borre (natural son of prince Arthur), sometimes called sir Bors.)

Bors (Sir), called sir Bors de Ganis, brother of sir Lione ll and nephew of sir Launcelot. “For all women was he a virgin, save for one, the daughter of king Bra ndegoris, on whom he had a child, hight Elaine; save for her, sir Bors was a clean maid” (ch. iv.). When he went to Corbin, and saw Galahad the son of sir Launcelot and Elaine (daughter of king Pelles), he prayed that the child might prove as good a knight as his father, and instantly a vision of the holy greal was vouchsafed him; for—

There came a white dove, bearing a little censer of gold in her bill … and a maiden that bear the Sancgreall, and she said, “Wit ye well, sir Bors, that this child … shall achieve the Sancgreall” … then they kneeled down … and there was such a savour as all the spicery in the world had been there. And when the dove took her flight, the maiden vanished away with the Sancgreall.—Pt. iii. 4.

Sir Bors was with sir Galahad and sir Percival when the consecrated wafer assumed the visible and bodily appearance of the Saviour. And this is what is meant by “achieving the holy greal;” for when they partook of the wafer their eyes saw the Saviour enter it.—Sir T. Malory: History of Prince Arthur, iii. 101, 102 (1470).

N.B.—This sir Bors must not be confounded with sir Borre, a natural son of king Arthur and Lyonors (daughter of the earl Sanam, pt. i. 15), nor yet with king Bors of Gaul, i.e. France (pt. i. 8).