• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    at the hand of the Saxon king Cerdic in single combat at the Battle of Badon Hill. The 2006 film Tristan & Isolde stars James Franco as Tristan, Thomas...
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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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  • Lancelot and his fellow knights, who decide to fight. In the climactic Battle of Badon Hill, the Woads and knights whittle the Saxon army. Cynric kills Lancelot...
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    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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  • 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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  • "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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    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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  • Geoffrey states that Arthur carried this lance with him at the Battle of Mount Badon. Layamon states in a passage (without naming the weapon) that Arthur's...
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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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  • 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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    legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain. According...
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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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    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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    Percival (category Knights of the Round Table)
    pronunciation: [pɛˈrɛdɨr]), is a figure in the legend of King Arthur, often appearing as one of the Knights of the Round Table. First mentioned by the French...
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    Excalibur (redirect from Sword of excalibur)
    This act later enables the death of Arthur, deprived of its magical protection, many years later in his final battle. In Malory's telling, the scabbard...
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  • Morgause (category Family of King Arthur)
    unsuspectingly raised Mordred as his own son, is later slain in battle by King Pellinore. All of her sons depart their father's court to take service at Camelot...
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  • Logres (category Geoffrey of Monmouth)
    (among various other forms and spellings) is King Arthur's realm in the Matter of Britain. The geographical area referred to by the name is south and eastern...
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