=Three Golden-Tongued Knights= (_The_) in the court of King Arthur; (1) Gwalchmai, called in French Gawain, son of Gwyar; (2) Drudwas, son of Tryffin; (3) Eliwlod, son of Madog ab Uthur. They never made a request which was not at once granted.--_Welsh Triads._ =Three Great Astronomers= (_The_), of the island of Britain: (1) Grwydion, son of Don. From him the Milky Way is called “Caer Gwydion.” He called the constellation Cassiopeia “The Court of Don,” or Llys Don, after his father; and the Corona Borealis, he called “Caer Arianrod,” after his daughter. (2) Gwynn, son of Nudd. (3) Idris.--_Welsh Triads_, ii. 325. =Three Holy Tribes= (_The_), of the island of Britain: (1) That of Bran or Vran, who introduced Christianity into Wales; (2) that of Cunedda Wledig; and (3) that of Brychan Brycheiniog.--_Welsh Triads_, xxxv. =Three Guardsmen=, trio of French gentlemen, who enter the army of Louis XIII., assuming the pseudonyms of Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Their adventures are traced through three books of Dumas, _Les Trois Mousquetaires_, _Vingt Ans Après_ and _Le Vicomte de Bragelonne_. =Three Kings’ Day=, Twelfth Day or Epiphany, designed to commemorate the visit of the “three kings,” or “Wise Men of the East,” to the infant Jesus. =Three Kings of Cologne= (_The_), the three “Wise Men” who followed the guiding star “from the East” to Jerusalem, and offered gifts to the babe Jesus. Their names were Jaspar or Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar; or Apellius, Ameĕrus, and Damascus; or Magalath, Galgalath, and Sarasin; or Ator, Sator and Peratŏras. Klopstock, in his _Messiah_, says the Wise Men were six in number, and gives their names as Hadad, Selĭma, Zimri, Mirja, Beled, and Sunith. ⁂ The toys shown in Cologne Cathedral as the “three kings” are called Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. =Three Learned Knights= (_The_), of the island of Britain: (1) Gwalchmai ab Gwyar, called in French romances Gawain; (2) Llecheu ab Arthur; (3) Rhiwallon with the broom-bush hair. There was nothing that man knew they did not know.--_Welsh Triads._ =Three-Leg Alley= (_London_), now called Pemberton Row, Fetter Lane. =Three Letters= (_A Man of_), a thief. A Roman phrase, from _fur_, “a thief.” Tun’ trium literarum homo Me vituperas? Fur! Plautus, _Aulularia_, ii. 4. =Three Makers of Golden Shoes= (_The_), of the island of Britain; (1) Caswallawn, son of Beli, when he went to Gascony to obtain Flur. She had been abducted for Julius Cæsar, but was brought back by the prince. (2) Manawyddan, son of Llyr, when he sojourned in Lloegyr (_England_). (3) Llew Llaw Gyffes, when seeking arms from his mother.--_Welsh Triads_, cxxiv.