The Duke of the Scottish Borderlands and the Isles who opposed Uther Pendragon.
Arthur's shield in the Welsh tale "Culhwch and Olwen".
Arthur's famed hauberk in Layamon's "Brut", worn during his battles against the Saxons.
Swords serve as weapons, marks of kingship, and objects of prophecy.
A defensive and symbolic object central to medieval warfare and Arthurian romance.
Nennius’s Historia Brittonum (c. 830) preserves the earliest account of Arthur’s Twelve Battles, portraying him as dux bellorum and linking him for the first time to the victory at Mount Badon.
- ARTHURIAN EVENTS
- Battles
- Geoffrey of Monmouth Tradition
- HISTORICAL ARTHUR
- MILITARY AND WARFARE
- Source | Annales Cambriae
- Source | De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae
- Source | Historia Brittonum
- Source | Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
- Source | Historia Regum Britanniae
- Source | Le Morte Darthur
- Welsh Tradition
Arthur’s battles, from the early traditions of Badon to the imperial wars of Geoffrey of Monmouth, trace the rise and fall of Britain’s legendary war leader.
The Golden Eagle was the battle standard carried by Lucius at the legendary Battle of Soissons against King Arthur.
