Character

Peter Pevensie

Also known as Peter, High King Peter, Peter the High King, King Peter

The eldest Pevensie sibling and High King during the Golden Age. Peter is a protective older brother, a battlefield leader, and one of the Friends of Narnia.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

Primary sources

In the chronicles

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe27 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from Lond…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 3"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like."Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 5"So you've been hiding, have you?" said Peter. "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed! You'll have to hide longer than that if you want people to start look…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 9"What do you mean, Lu?" asked Peter.Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 2"Peter! Susan! It's all true. Edmund has seen it too. There is a country you can get to through the wardrobe. Edmund a…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 3"What's all this about, Ed?" said Peter.Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 4"There's something sticking into my back," said Peter.Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 6"Now that you mention it, it is cold," said Peter, "and hang it all, it's wet too. What's the matter with this place? I'm sitting on something wet. It's getting …Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 2"And now what are we to do?" said Edmund, giving Peter a look which was as much as to say "What did I tell you?"Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 4"What?" said Peter.Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 11"Couldn't we have some stratagem?" said Peter. "I mean couldn't we dress up as something, or pretend to be--oh, pedlars or anything--or watch till she was go…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 28"I'm longing to see him," said Peter, "even if I do feel frightened when it comes to the point."Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 3…did want Turkish Delight and to be a Prince (and later a King) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particula…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 5…nd dams and was putting the finishing touches to some schemes for keeping Peter in his place, when the weather changed. First the snow stopped. Then a wind sprang up and it became freezing co…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 7"But don't we want as big a start as we can possibly get," said Peter, "if we're to reach the Stone Table before her?"Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 19…heir journey. They went in single file--first Mr. Beaver, then Lucy, then Peter, then Susan, and Mrs. Beaver last of all. Mr. Beaver led them across the dam and onto the right bank of the riv…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 8…now. He would have given anything to meet the others at this moment--even Peter! The only way to comfort himself now was to try to believe that the whole thing was a dream and that he might w…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 6… far to the East, was something twinkling and moving. "By gum!" whispered Peter to Susan. "The sea!" In the very middle of this open hilltop was the Stone Table. It was a great grim slab of g…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 10"No," whispered Peter, "you first."Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 35… "But supposing she turns the two leopards into stone?" whispered Lucy to Peter. I think the same idea had occurred to the leopards themselves; at any rate, as they walked off their fur was a…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 36"It'll be all right," whispered Peter in reply. "He wouldn't send them if it weren't."Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 4During the first part of the journey Aslan explained to Peter his plan of campaign. "As soon as she has finished her business in these parts," he said, "the Witch and her cr…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 6… give you no promise of that," answered the Lion. And he continued giving Peter his instructions.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 35…came out of the narrow valley and at once she saw the reason. There stood Peter and Edmund and all the rest of Aslan's army fighting desperately against the crowd of horrible creatures whom s…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 36…f the foe) unicorns with their horns, centaurs with swords and hoofs. And Peter's tired army cheered, and the newcomers roared, and the enemy squealed and gibbered till the wood re-echoed wit…Open passage →
Chapter XVII · paragraph 1…e themselves up or took to flight. The next thing that Lucy knew was that Peter and Aslan were shaking hands. It was strange to her to see Peter looking as he looked now--his face was so pale…Open passage →
Chapter XVII · paragraph 2"It was all Edmund's doing, Aslan," Peter was saying. "We'd have been beaten if it hadn't been for him. The Witch was-turning our troops into stone right…Open passage →

The Horse and His Boy7 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1…ened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him.Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 40…nd her way into Narnia. But he was a good deal older now for by this time Peter and Susan and Edmund and Lucy had been Kings and Queens of Narnia for several years.Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 19…Queen and our own lives out of this devilish city. For though my brother, Peter the High King, defeated the Tisroc a dozen times over, yet long before that day our throats would be cut and the Queen's grac…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 51…gin to learn how to tilt and joust. And in a few years, if all goes well, King Peter has promised your royal father that he himself will make you Knight at Cair Paravel. And in the meantime there …Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 34…will not. For though the fancy of a woman has rejected this marriage, the High King Peter is a man of prudence and understanding who will in no way wish to lose the high honour and advantage of being a…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 19…th was that in that golden age when the Witch and the Winter had gone and Peter the High King ruled at Cair Paravel, the smaller woodland people of Narnia were so safe and happy that they were getting a li…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 46… the tale of the Wardrobe and how she and King Edmund and Queen Susan and Peter the High King had first come into Narnia.Open passage →

Prince Caspian28 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how t…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 5"What on earth----" began Peter, and then he too suddenly changed what he had been going to say. Instead, he said, "Susan, let go! What are you…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 2"I see what you mean," said Peter. "Yes. That is the remains of a tower. And there is what used to be a flight of steps going up to the top of th…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 4"Yes, ages ago," said Peter. "I wish we could find out who the people were that lived in this castle; and how long ago."Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 4"It would be all right for Su," said Peter (Susan had won prizes for swimming at school). "But I don't know about the rest of us." By "the rest of us" he …Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 6"But, Peter," said Lucy, "look here. I know I can't swim for nuts at home--in England, I mean. But couldn't we all swim lon…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 13…Witch and they were made Kings and Queens of Narnia, and their names were Peter and Susan and Edmund and Lucy. And so they reigned for ever so long and everyone had a lovely time, and it was …Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 67…oping again. I don't know. But at least you can try to be a King like the High King Peter of old, and not like your uncle."Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 34…may have power to call Queen Lucy and King Edmund and Queen Susan and the High King Peter back from the past, and they will set all to rights. It may be that it will call up Aslan himself. Take it, Kin…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 66…ers have long enough memories to know that. Why, bless us all, wasn't the High King Peter a Man?"Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 47…I think the Horn--and that bit of broken stone over there--and your great King Peter--and your Lion Aslan--are all eggs in moonshine. It's all one to me when your Majesty blows the Horn. All I ins…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 49…ht call Aslan himself from oversea. But I think it is more likely to call Peter the High King and his mighty consorts down from the high past. But in either case, I do not think we can be sure that the hel…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 7"Great Scott!" said Peter. "So it was the horn--your own horn, Su--that dragged us all off that seat on the platform yesterday morning! I…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 9"Yes," said Peter, "I suppose what makes it feel so queer is that in the stories it's always someone in our world who does the ca…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 10…feel tired. She went back to the bivouac, snuggled down between Susan and Peter, and was asleep in a few minutes.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 16"Then I think you might have said so at the time," answered Peter, with pardonable sharpness.Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 3…ind of fern, jewel-like dragon flies, sometimes a hawk overhead and once (Peter and Trumpkin both thought) an eagle. But of course what the children and the Dwarf wanted to see as soon as pos…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 9"Oh, hurray!" said Peter.Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 2"I can't see anything," said Peter after he had stared his eyes sore. "Can you, Susan?"Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 5…ucy," said Susan. "Of course you can't go off on your own. Don't let her, Peter. She's being downright naughty."Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 5The badgers found a torch just inside the arch and Peter lit it and handed it to Trumpkin. "The D.L.F. had better lead," he said. "We don't know our way about this plac…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 7"I say, Peter," whispered Edmund. "Look at those carvings on the walls. Don't they look old? And yet we're older than that. W…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 1"Now," said Peter, as they finished their meal, "Aslan and the girls (that's Queen Susan and Queen Lucy, Caspian) are somewhere c…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 2"I'm afraid not, High King," said Caspian. He was liking Peter very much, but was rather tongue-tied. It was much stranger for him to meet the great Kings out of the old stor…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 1…ed much more imposing than the Telmarine baron who faced him on the left. Peter had just shaken hands with Edmund and the Doctor, and was now walking down to the combat. It was like the momen…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 7The Badger said nothing, for now Peter and Miraz were entering the lists from opposite ends, both on foot, both in chain shirts, with helmets and shie…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 1… and trusts, you will have a pretty good picture of their behaviour. Then Peter, leading Caspian, forced his way through the crowd of animals.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 20…inished speaking the new tail was in its place. Then, at Aslan's command, Peter bestowed the Knighthood of the Order of the Lion on Caspian, and Caspian, as soon as he was knighted, himself b…Open passage →

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader6 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 3Eustace Clarence disliked his cousins the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But he was quite glad when he heard that Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay. For deep…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 4…r was to go with him because she hadn't had a real holiday for ten years. Peter was working very hard for an exam and he was to spend the holidays being coached by old Professor Kirke in whos…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 51…leons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors. When his uncle, …Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 4"I've never understood why they belong to Narnia," said Caspian. "Did Peter the High King conquer them?"Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 10…lf there was set out such a banquet as had never been seen, not even when Peter the High King kept his court at Cair Paravel. There were turkeys and geese and peacocks, there were boars' heads and sides of…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 24…o know them," said Lucy. "In the old days at Cair Paravel when my brother Peter was High King. They came to the surface and sang at our coronation."Open passage →

The Silver Chair2 cited passages⌄

Chapter III · paragraph 86…ened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Cair Paravel. (I haven't time to tell it now, though it is well worth hearing.)Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 35…a, who rule by the will of Aslan and sit at Cair Paravel on the throne of Peter the High King. Instantly every head was bared and every knee was bent; a moment later such cheering and shouting, such jumps …Open passage →

The Last Battle14 cited passages⌄

Chapter IV · paragraph 44…you are from Narnia, I charge you in the name of Aslan, speak to me. I am Peter the High King."Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 25…roblem was how to get at them. You'll never guess what we did in the end! Peter and Edmund--that's the High King Peter, the one who spoke to you--went up to London to get into the garden from…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 28"But the High King Peter has them," said Tirian.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 24"It'll be rum for Peter and the others if they saw me waving out of the window and then when the train comes in we're nowhere to be fou…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 46… coming forward and making a beautiful curtsey, "let me make you known to Peter the High King over all Kings in Narnia."Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 47…r nobler) from his dream. He stepped forward, sank on one knee and kissed Peter's hand.Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 3"It's all right," said Peter. "I know what we're all thinking. But I'm sure, quite sure, we needn't. I've a feeling we've got to the country…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 6When they had eaten enough, Eustace said to King Peter, "You haven't yet told us how you got here. You were just going to, when King Tirian turned up."Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 21"Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door."Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 22Peter, shivering with cold, leaned out into the darkness and pulled the Door to. It scraped over ice as he pulled it.…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 20"Peter," said Lucy, "where is this, do you suppose?"Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 26"Yes, so they are," said Peter. "Only these are bigger."Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 15…e out of Narnia now and up into the Western Wild which neither Tirian nor Peter nor even the Eagle had ever seen before. But the Lord Digory and the Lady Polly had. "Do you remember? Do you r…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 25Then Tirian saw King Peter and King Edmund and Queen Lucy rush forward to kneel down and greet the Mouse and they all cried out, "Reepiche…Open passage →

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