BEVES is the hero of the romance, Sir Beves of Hampton. The motif of the story is one of exile and return. Beves's adventures during his exile make up the bulk of the work. The Middle English version, written c. 1300, was very popular in Chaucer's day. The work exists in several branches: the Anglo-Norman version, Boeve de Hamtoune, of the early thirteenth century, written in laisses; a fourteenth-century French prose version; the Middle English version, written in stanzas and couplets, closely following the Anglo-Norman text; and a sixteenth-century Welsh version. The Auchinleck manuscript is the most authoritative of the three English manuscripts.

Sir Thopas bears the flower of chivalry, surpassing Sir Beves, Thop 897-899. [Thopas]

The name appears medially, Thop 899.