Magouns, later called Arundel in Sussex, is the castle where Anglides and her son Alisander find refuge after escaping Cornwall. Welcomed by its constable, Bellangere, Anglides learns that the castle is hers by inheritance; it becomes the secure home in which Alisander grows to adulthood after King Mark’s attempt to have him killed.

Setting and Ownership

Magouns lies southward on Anglides’s flight from Cornwall toward the coast. After she rides on with little rest, she reaches the castle by chance. Its constable, Bellangere, welcomes her as someone returning to her own property and explains that Magouns belongs to her by right of inheritance. The narrative also identifies the castle with Arundel in Sussex, linking the romance’s place-name to a named location in southern England.

Refuge for Anglides and Alisander

The castle’s role becomes clear against the danger from which Anglides has fled. King Mark has ordered the pursuit of her and her young son; the knight Sir Sadok overtakes her, but permits her to depart with the child. Anglides then travels south and reaches Magouns, where Bellangere’s wife is her close cousin. The welcome is therefore both a matter of inherited right and family connection, giving mother and child a place of protection beyond Mark’s reach.

Alisander’s Upbringing

Anglides remains at Magouns through years and winters, raising Alisander there until he is grown and strong. The account emphasizes his exceptional capability: no one in that country is as vigorous, and none can surpass him in prowess. The castle thus marks the interval between his escape as a child and his emergence as a formidable young man. When Alisander is later made a knight, the narrative returns to the consequences of his father’s death and his mother’s charge, carried forward from the years of refuge at Magouns.

Narrative Significance

Magouns is not merely a stop on Anglides’s journey: as her inherited castle, it supplies the setting in which the threatened child survives and matures. The movement from Cornwall, where King Mark seeks mother and son, to a refuge grounded in Anglides’s own inheritance turns a flight from danger into the beginning of Alisander’s future. The castle’s association with shelter, kinship, and the claim of inheritance anchors this stretch of the story before Alisander’s knighthood and the return of his family’s violent past.