Bladud
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- Royalty.name
- Bladud
- Royalty.image
- Bladud (MS Roll 1066).jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Bladud from the Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England to Edward IV (c. 1461)
- Royalty.succession
- King of Britain
- Royalty.predecessor
- Rud Hud Hudibras
- Royalty.successor
- Leir
- Royalty.issue
- Leir
- Royalty.father
- Rud Hud Hudibras
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- Legend
- Leprosy
- Divination, wings and death
- Conflation with Abaris the Hyperborean
- In fiction
- House of Brutus
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
right|framed|An image of Bladud attempting to fly with his artificial wings (from the Lyte Pedigree of 1605. British Library Catalog entry Add. Ms. 48343).
Bladud or Blaiddyd is a legendary king of the Britons, although there is no historical evidence for his existence. He is first mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136), which describes him as the son of King Rud Hud Hudibras, and the tenth ruler in line from the first king, Brutus, saying Bladud was contemporaneous with the biblical prophet Elijah (9th century BC).