Research topic: King Arthur

Arthur, King. The romantic figure of King Arthur has probably some historical basis. He was probably a chieftain or general ( dux bellorum ) in the 5th or 6th cent. The Annales Cambriae place the battle of Mount Badon, ‘in which Arthur carried the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ on his shoulders’, in 518, and the ‘battle of Camlan, in which Arthur and Medraut fell’ in 539. There is mention of him in certain ancient poems contained in the Black Book of Camarthen ...