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The kings of Dumnonia were the rulers of the large Brythonic kingdom of Dumnonia in the south-west of Great Britain during the Sub-Roman and early medieval periods.. A list of Dumnonian kings is one of the hardest of the major Dark Age kingdoms to accurately compile, as it is confused by Arthurian legend, complicated by strong associations with the kings of Wales and Brittany, and obscured by ...
Cornwall: A History (2nd ed.). Fowey: Cornwall Editions Ltd. ISBN 1-904880-00-2. Pearce, Susan M. (1978). The Kingdom of Dumnonia: Studies in History and Tradition in South-Western Britain A.D. 350–1150. Padstow: Lodenek Press. ISBN 0-902899-68-6. Thomas, Charles (1994). And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? Post-Roman Inscriptions in Western ...
Kings of Dumnonia The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia , the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset ) in the further parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.
Alfred styled himself king of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886, and while he was not the first king to claim to rule all of the English, his rule represents the start of the first unbroken line of kings to rule the whole of England, the House of Wessex. [1]
The excavators claim to have found a "Level 0" at Troy near the entrance of Troy-II with the new level pushing the city's history back 600 years. [62] [63] Since 2016 the University of Amsterdam has conducted a project to examine the 150-year history of excavation at the site. [64]
Traditionally, Erbin was a King of Dumnonia, the son of Constantine Corneu and the father of Geraint. [2] He was the brother of Saint Digain, founder of the church at Llangernyw. [3] Erbin succeeded his father as King of Dumnonia around 443. Erbin chiefly appears in Geraint and Enid, one of the Three Welsh Romances of the Mabinogion.
Saint Constantine's Church in Constantine, Cornwall, perhaps connected to the historical king of Dumnonia. The historical Constantine of Dumnonia may have influenced later traditions, known in southwestern Britain as well as in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, about a Saint Constantine who is usually said to have been a king who gave up his crown to become a monk.
Situated to the north east of Brittany, the earliest princes are mentioned in several Lives of the Saints. The three Armorican principalities were all subservient to the King of Brittany. Until the reign of Jonas, the rulers of Domnonia were titled princes. After that, they supply the Kings of the Bretons, and Domnonia itself was elevated as a ...