Tristan

I find Tristan to be a very unique nobleman, his adventures are far from typical and the situations that he finds himself in are odd. For one, He starts out by fighting a man over a cause that no other noble man would lift a finger to help stop. This isn't the odd part though; he puts himself into the hands of god when the injury he sustained in combat fails to heal and slowly poisons him to the edge of his life. Here is the truly weird part though; he ends up in the arms of the man who he had killed. Of all the examples in the book "The Romance of Tristan" I found this one to be the best because it is by far the simplest of Tristan's experiences, but all of them have the same basic outline. Tristan start's with good intentions, something unfortunate happens, and it ends in a distinctly bad manner. It the unfortunate happenings that truly goes against Tristan, he is by all rights a good person who just has terrible luck. He might be doing the king's wife in the off hours, but he only loves her so deeply because of the love potion he drank. He won't hurt the infirm and he went to get Yseut so that she could marry the king. He isn't selfish but he remains, for the time being, a selfless person.