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Jack Whyte's A Dream of Eagles portrays Igraine as the daughter of Athol, a ruler from Ireland. She is married off to Lot, the Duke of Cornwall and flees the cruel Lot for his arch enemy, Uther Pendragon.
Igraine comes from the Welsh name Eigyr. She was the mother of King Arthur and the daughter of Amlawdd. She married Gorlois, by whom she had a number of daughters. (This husband is sometimes called Hoel.)
According to Geoffrey, Uther and Igraine were parents of King Arthur and a daughter named Anna, who married King Lot of Orkney. Chretien de Troyes' introduces Morgan le Fay as the sister of King Arthur. In Gerald of Wales Tour of Wales (1188), he has Morgan as Arthur's cousin.
She was the daughter of Amlawdd (Anlawdd) and she married Gorlois (sometimes called Hoel and Tintagel), by whom she had a number of daughters. King Uther Pendragon fell in love with her when she and her husband attended a feast at Uther’s court.
As well as Arthur, various literary sources have attributed several children to Ygerna by her first marriage to Gorlois. They supposedly had daughters named Elaine, (Anna) Morgause and Morgan, though the latter may have been mistakenly attached to them.
While Igraine was still mourning over Gorlois' death, she and Uther had a child by the name of Arthur. However, since Igraine was supposed to still be mourning Gorlois, the two weren't supposed to be having children together.
According to Geoffrey, Igraine also bore a daughter to Uther Pendragon: Arthur's full sister Anna, the future mother of Gawain and Mordred. Igraine is indirectly mentioned several times in the 11th/12th-century Welsh text Culhwch and Olwen as the unnamed mother of Arthur.
