The Battle of Badon, also known as the Battle of Mons Badonicus, was purportedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Post-Roman Britain during the...
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Britain at the Battle of Badon, written more than three centuries after the events depicted. He develops into a legendary figure in the Matter of Britain from...
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Look up badon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Badon may refer to: Badon, region in India Badon River, Romanian river Battle of Badon, 5th century Welsh...
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Arthur's ultimate fate. Battle of Badon The battle is dated 539 in some editions. Matasovic, Ranko, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, Brill, 2009...
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Ambrosius Aurelianus (category Date of death unknown)
a generation before the Battle of Badon. Lack of information prevents sure answers to these questions. N. J. Higham, author of a book on Gildas and the...
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Cynric (redirect from Cynric of Wessex)
King Arthur and Lancelot at the Battle of Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus). Cynric was portrayed by Til Schweiger. House of Wessex family tree According to...
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Solsbury Hill (category History of Somerset)
one of several possible locations of the Battle of Badon and shows the remains of a medieval field system. Part of the hill was quarried in the 19th century...
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allegory of human development and spiritual growth, a theme explored by mythologist Joseph Campbell amongst others. Avalon and Glastonbury Battle of Badon and...
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King Arthur (redirect from Arthur of Britain)
which also link Arthur with the Battle of Badon. The Annales date this battle to 516–518, and also mention the Battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut...
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Lancelot and his fellow knights, who decide to fight. In the climactic Battle of Badon Hill, the Woads and knights whittle the Saxon army. Guinevere engages...
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Cador (redirect from Cador, Duke of Cornwall)
Isle of Thanet. Arthur's most successful siege, the Battle of Badon, precedes the battle at the Isle of Thanet, which seems strangely illogical given the...
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history of the United Kingdom) Battle of Aylesford (455) Battle of Badon (c. 500) Battle of Ellandun (825) Viking invasions (793–1066) Battle of Hingston...
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Tristan (redirect from Sir Tristan of Lyonesse)
at the hand of the Saxon king Cerdic in single combat at the Battle of Badon Hill. The 2006 film Tristan & Isolde starred James Franco as Tristan, Thomas...
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"sometimes our countrymen, sometimes the enemy, won the field" until the Battle of Badon. Anonymous (1912). J. A. Giles trans. (ed.). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...
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Historia Brittonum (redirect from Battle of the City of Legion)
some of which have events added. Two notable events are next to AD 516, which describes The Battle of Badon, and 537, which describes the Battle of Camlann...
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of Auxerre leads Romano-Britons to victory over Saxon raiders. c. 430 to 520: The range of dates for the Battle of Badon. See effects of the battle for...
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Annales Cambriae (redirect from Annals of wales)
the development of the early Arthurian myth. The entries on Arthur and Mordred in the A Text: Year 72 (c. AD 516) The Battle of Badon, in which Arthur...
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Guinevere (category Family of King Arthur)
to Rome. In the climactic Battle of Badon Hill, Guinevere leads a Pictish detachment of archers against the first wave of Saxon invaders and is nearly...
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Mordred (redirect from Sons of Mordred)
Annales Cambriae, wherein he and Arthur are ambiguously associated with the Battle of Camlann in a brief entry for the year 537. Medraut's figure seemed to...
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Ywain (category Knights of the Round Table)
a game of chess against him while the Saxons prepare to fight the Battle of Badon. Three times during the game, Owain's men inform him that Arthur's...
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The Once and Future King is a collection of fantasy novels by T. H. White about the legend of King Arthur. It is loosely based upon the 1485 work Le Morte...
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Warren) Twelve of Arthur's battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. Battle at the mouth of the river Glein (1st battle), possibly River...
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when the sheath of his great knife fills with water. In Rhonabwy Osla is Arthur's opponent at the Battle of Badon. Ecclesiastical History of the English People...
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Hywel the Great (redirect from Hoel of Brittany)
the Battle of Badon before conquering France for Arthur, who then moved his court to Paris. Finally returning to Brittany, he was aided by Tristram of Lyonesse...
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Igraine (category Family of King Arthur)
her husband and becomes pregnant with Arthur. Her husband Gorlois dies in battle that same night. Geoffrey does not say, and later accounts disagree, as...
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King Lot (redirect from Lot of Orkney)
feature Lot as a member of Arthur's court. In the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Didot Perceval, Lot dies in Arthur's final battle against Mordred. Lot...
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Uther Pendragon (category Family of King Arthur)
invented by them; it is Mordred who mortally wounds King Arthur in the Battle of Camlann. Uther's epithet Pendragon literally means "head dragon" in its...
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Bedivere (redirect from Bedivere of the Perfect Sinews)
returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake after Arthur's last battle. In early Welsh sources, Bedwyr Bedrydant ("Bedwyr of the Perfect Sinew") is a handsome...
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The following list of legendary kings of Britain (Welsh: Brenin y Brythoniaid, Brenin Prydain) derives predominantly from Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa 1136...
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Elaine (legend) (redirect from Elaine the Fair of Astolat)
source. They include Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbenic among others. Lady Elaine of Astolat (a common mistake misspelling of "Ascolat") or Elaine the...
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