Brut

Brut   Brute , or Brutus , a Trojan, legendary founder of the British race, descendant of Aeneas. His story appears in Nennius and in Geoffrey of Monmouth, and his name gives the titles to long poems by Wace and Layamon.

Brut, or Brutus, legendary founder of the British race. Geoffrey of Monmouth states that Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, gave him an ancient book containing an account of the kings of Britain from Brutus to Cadwallader. This Brutus was son of Sylvius, grandson of Ascanius and great-grandson of Aeneas. He collected a remnant of the Trojan race and brought them to England (uninhabited at the time ‘except by a few giants’), landing at Totnes. He founded Troynovant or New Troy (later known as London) and was the progenitor of a line of British kings including Bladud, Gorboduc, Ferrex and Porrex, Lud, Cymbeline, Coel, Vortigern, and Arthur. Drayton, in his Poly-Olbion (i. 312), relates the legend.

His name came to be used to mean ‘chronicle of the Britons’, by Geoffrey of Monmouth's followers such as Wace and Laзamon after Geoffrey began his history of the kings of Britain with him.