Geoffrey of Monmouth
Noun
Meaning
Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154)
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Based on the Welsh name (given as Kaerleir), Geoffrey of Monmouth proposes a king Leir of Britain as an eponymous founder in his Historia Regum Britanniae (12th century).
Ashley (2005), Geoffrey of Monmouth, unnumbered pages Ambrosius and Uther are supposedly raised by their adoptive maternal grandfather Guthelinus/Vitalinus.
Green, p. 31. Geoffrey of Monmouth 's c. 1136 History of the Kings of Britain was massively popular and survives in many copies from soon after its composition.
Geoffrey of Monmouth composed his History of the Kings of Britain around the year 1136, naming a King Leir as an eponymous founder figure.
These stories are most centrally brought together within Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain).
Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinised the name to Merlinus in his works.