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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 . In the romance of Culhwch and Olwen he is the father of Gereint, Dywel , and Ermid, the latter two knights at Arthur's court at Celliwig .
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 ...
Dumnonia is the Latinised name for a Brythonic kingdom that existed in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries CE in the more westerly parts of ...
Howard Pyle's illustration for The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur (1910). Geraint (/ ˈ ɡ ɛr aɪ n t / GHERR-eyent) is a character from Welsh folklore and Arthurian legend, a valiant warrior possibly related to the historical Geraint, an early 8th-century king of Dumnonia.
Geraint (/ ˈ ɡ ɛr aɪ n t / GHERR-eyent; died 710), known in Latin as Gerontius, was a king of Dumnonia who ruled in the early 8th century. During his reign, it is believed that Dumnonia came repeatedly into conflict with the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex.
Meriadoc appears in one of the genealogies from Jesus College MS 20, which traces the descent of Geraint mab Erbin, king of Dumnonia in the West Country, back to "Cynan map Eudaf Hen". [2] In the Cornish miracle play Beunans Meriasek, Conan is a kinsman of Saint Meriasek who tries (unsuccessfully) to dissuade Meriasek from pursuing a religious ...
Erbin of Dumnonia, King of Dumnonia (443-480) Gerren Llyngesic ab Erbin, King of Dumnonia (c. 480–514) Jangsu, King of Goguryeo (413–490) Buddha Gupta, Gupta Emperor (477–496) Einion Yrth ap Cunedda, King of Gwynedd (c. 470–500) Khingila I, Tegin of Hephthalite Empire (AKA White Huns) (c. 440-490) Ernakh, Ruler of the Huns (469–503)
The poem's subject, Geraint mab Erbin, was a popular figure in Welsh tradition and is known through a variety of subsequent sources. Later genealogies associate him with southwestern Britain and South Wales in the late 6th century. [2] The early poem Y Gododdin mentions a "Geraint before the South", conceivably a reference to Geraint mab Erbin. [3]