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Using three chivalric romances as cases in point, this article reconsiders the medieval practice of two “friends” sharing a tomb, which was compellingly investigated by Alan Bray two decades ago in his posthumous work, The Friend. Postmedieval conceptions of medieval sexuality often presuppose the nexus between heteronormativity and homophobia. A comparative analysis of the Prose Lancelot, Amis and Amiloun, and Bevis of Hampton, however, indicates that libidinal desire is dynamically distributed between friendship and love, or between homosocial and heterosexual unions, according to a zero-sum rule. Medieval courtly-chivalric masculinity is fashioned and maintained at the intersection of heteronormativity and heterophobia through a bidirectional surveillance system.