ID: 901000774 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000774	Record Type: Literature

	King and the Beggar-Maid (legend, anonymous, medieval)

Note: Story of King Cophetua, an African king who lacked sexual attraction to women. However, one day while looking out a palace window, the king spied a young beggar maid, Penelophon, for whom he had immediate attraction. Cophetua vowed that he would either take the beggar girl as his wife or commit suicide.

Display Date: medieval

Names:

	King and the Beggar-Maid (legend, anonymous, medieval) (preferred,English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
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		........<Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.)> (P)
		............King and the Beggar-Maid (legend, anonymous, medieval) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... legend (literary genre)
	.....(folk tales, genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	King and the Beggar-Maid (legend, anonymous, medieval)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_the_Beggar-maid#/media/File:Leighton-The_King_and_the_Beggar-maid.jpg