Chapter 7: King Lear: Courtly Romance and Chivalric Restoration sees the opening perversions of and developing machinations of courtly love as means leading to the undoing of Edmund, Goneril, and Regan. It sees Edgar, the instrument of their undoing, fulfilling his obligations to father and godfather, as the fair unknown made so by internal exile and redeemed in his return by single combat against his brother. By the intersection of several motifs from chivalric romance, Edgar thus restores England to right rule. A chivalric knight like Lear in his youth, he succeeds to the throne by moral succession.