The Perceval is lovely, yes, although I've only read the de Troyes in translation.
Many of the stories I read, although it's been a while, usually have the named knight of the story messing up somehow and having to make it up through some feat. Yvain and Lancelot (the Dung-Cart Knight) seem to have this structure, if I remember correctly, as opposed to the "you're secretly nobility and I'm going to troll the Round Table about it" that was Beaumains. But it's been a case since I've seriously cracked the books, so I may be remembering wrong.
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Many of the stories I read, although it's been a while, usually have the named knight of the story messing up somehow and having to make it up through some feat. Yvain and Lancelot (the Dung-Cart Knight) seem to have this structure, if I remember correctly, as opposed to the "you're secretly nobility and I'm going to troll the Round Table about it" that was Beaumains. But it's been a case since I've seriously cracked the books, so I may be remembering wrong.