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The title King of the Britons (Welsh: Brenin y Brythoniaid, Latin: Rex Britannorum) was used (often retrospectively) to refer to a ruler, especially one who might be regarded as the most powerful, among the Celtic Britons, both before and after the period of Roman Britain up until the Norman invasion of Wales and the Norman conquest ...
NameReignCassivellaunus ( Welsh: Caswallawn fab ...54BC20 BC – 9 ADCunobeline ( Welsh: Cynfelyn)9 – 40Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus / ...40–43The following list of legendary kings of Britain ( Welsh: Brenin y Brythoniaid, Brenin Prydain) derives predominantly from Geoffrey of Monmouth 's circa 1136 work Historia Regum Britanniae ("the History of the Kings of Britain"). Geoffrey constructed a largely fictional history for the Britons (ancestors of the Welsh, the Cornish and ...
Vortigern (flourished 425–450) was the king of the Britons at the time of the arrival of the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa in the 5th century. Though the subject of many legends, he may probably be safely regarded as an actual historical figure.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603.
Tradition has Cassivellaunus fighting Caesar alongside the representatives of the peoples of Britain, Androgeus of the Trinovantes, Tenvantius (the young Bran Fendigaid) of Cornwall, Cridous of Albany, Gueithaet of Venedotia, and Brittahel of Demetia, alongside Nennius, brother of the high king.
May 23, 2017 · The Welsh monk Nennius in his History of Britain presents Vortigern as a villain who was proud, anti-Christian, incestuous, and sold his country out to the Saxons. According to Nennius, after the Romans left Britain, the invasions of the Picts and Scots became incessant.
Mar 6, 2017 · Some believe that Vortigern (also spelled Vortiger and Vortigen) was King of the Britons in the early to mid 5th century. Others think he is a legend. In the 6th century Gildas wrote about Vortigern. Apparently Gildas was one of the men who decided to invite the Saxons to settle Britain.
