British traditional history

tragedy by William Shakespeare

Roman emperor (250-306)

Roman emperor from 209 to 211

disciple of Jesus, donated his heart for the burial of Jesus

late 4th-century Roman emperor of Britain and usurper of the West

Western Roman Emperor from 407 to 411

pseudohistorical account of British history (c.1136)

Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius (died 293) was a military commander of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century. He was a Menapian from Belgic Gaul, who usurped power in 286, during the Carausian Revolt, declaring himself emperor in Britain and northern Gaul (Imperium Britanniarum). He did this only 13 years after the Gallic Empire was ended in 273. He held power for seven years, fashioning the name "Emperor of the North" for himself, before being assassinated by his finance minister Allectus.

thumb|right|302x302px|Imogen (Cymbeline)|Imogen in her bedchamber in Act II, scene ii, when Iachimo witnesses the mole under her breast. Painting by [[Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon, 1872]] Cymbeline (), also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain () and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early historical Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although it is listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a comedy. Like Othello and '

Allectus (died 296) was a Roman-Britannic usurper in Britain and northern Gaul from 293 to 296.

legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas

Western Roman Emperor from 409 to 411

body of Medieval literature associated with Great Britain and Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur

thumb|upright|Coin of Cunobeline Cunobeline or Cunobelin (Common Brittonic: *Cunobelinos, "Dog-Strong"), also known by his name's Latin form '''', was a king in pre-Roman Britain from about to about He is mentioned in passing by the classical historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius, and many coins bearing his inscription have been found. He controlled a substantial portion of southeastern Britain, including the territories of the Catuvellauni and the Trinovantes, and he was called "King of the Britons" (Britannorum rex'') by Suetonius. Cunobeline may have been a client king of Rome, based on the

period of Late Antiquity in Great Britain, covering the end of Roman rule in the late 4th and early 5th centuries, and its aftermath into the 6th century

legendary Queen of the Britons

legendary figure

legendary brothers said to have led the invasion of Britain in 5th century

Cunedda ap Edern, also called 'Cunedda Wledig''''' (reigned – c. 460), was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd, one of the very oldest of Western Europe.

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legendary post-Roman king of north Britain

series of Welsh triads about the legendary figures of Britain

Roman usurper who was proclaimed emperor in 406 in Roman Britain

Late 3rd-century Roman politician

thumb|right|"Queen Scota unfurls the sacred banner", illustration from an 1867 book of Irish history

literary work by Geoffrey of Monmouth

Ceredig ap Cunedda (died 453), was a possibly fictional or at least not well attested in reliable sources king of Ceredigion in Wales.

mythical queen regnant of the Britons

English play from 1561

King of Gwynedd

Ferrex was the son of the legendary king Gorboduc of the Britons, and fought with his brother Porrex for the throne, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Cador () is a legendary Duke of Cornwall, known chiefly through Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae and previous manuscript sources such as the Life of Carannog. In Welsh genealogical records, he appears as Cado (), the son of Cornish king Geraint. Early sources present him as a relative of King Arthur, though the details of their kinship are usually left unspecified.

legendary king of Britain

thumb|Attributed arms of Albanactus from the [[Book of Baglan]] Albanactus, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, was the founding king of Albania or Albany. He is in effect Geoffrey's eponym for Scotland. His territory was that north of the Humber estuary. This myth was then taken up by Giraldus Cambrensis.

prince

Calchfynydd (Welsh calch "lime" + mynydd "mountain") was an obscure Britonnic kingdom or sub-kingdom of sub-Roman Britain. Its exact location is uncertain, although the name suggests somewhere in one of Great Britain's Chalk Groups and might refer to southern Scotland, the Cotswolds, or the Chilterns. Virtually nothing else definitive is known about it.

Corineus, in medieval British legend, was a prodigious warrior, a fighter of giants, and the eponymous founder of Cornwall.

medieval Irish and Scottish legendary figure

debate about whether King Arthur was a historical person

Caradocus (middle Welsh: Karadawc), according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, a pseudohistorical account of the kings of the Britons, was the duke of Cornwall under the reign of Octavius, who became king of Cornwall and died during the Emperor Magnus Maximus' reign.

legendary Figure

legendary king

In British legend, Cambra was the daughter of Belinus the Great, a legendary king of the Britons, and married to Antenor, the second King of the Cimmerians. The Cimmerians changed the name of their tribe to Sicambri in honor of Cambra. Cambra's son by Antenor, Priamus the Younger, succeeded his father when he was twenty-six.

Goneril is a character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear (1605). She is the eldest of King Lear's three daughters. Along with her sister Regan, Goneril is considered a villain, obsessed with power and overthrowing her elderly father as ruler of the kingdom of Britain.

thumb|Dionotus, Saint Ursula's father, in a 1495 painting by [[Vittore Carpaccio]] Dionotus was a legendary king of Cornwall in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, an account of the rulers of Britain based on ancient Welsh sources and disputed by many historians. Dionotus succeeding his brother Caradocus, and was regent of Britain during the campaigns in Gaul of Emperor Magnus Maximus. The curious thing about this king is that the Welsh chronicles, which parallel most of Geoffrey of Monmouth's book, do not mention this king by name. However, Geoffrey uses Latin versions of Welsh