Gaius

1. Gaius
   Caius

   A cruel pagan king who inhabited the land of King Mordrains.

   Galafré resisted conversion to Christianity. When Mordrains disappeared, Galafré accused Nascien of murdering him, and he imprisoned Nascien and Nascien’s young son, Celidoine. When God delivered Nascien from the prison, Galafré tried to kill Celidoine by hurling him from a tower. God’s hands broke Celidoine’s fall, and a lightning bolt swiftly incinerated Galafré and his castle.

   Galafré is a name common to non-Christian warriors in medieval sources.

   
   

2. Gaius Metellus Cotta

   One of the Roman senators who became a war leader in Lucius’s campaign against Arthur. He led a force of soldiers at the battle of Soissons. Found in Geoffrey of Monmouth, he is split by Wace in to Gaius, Metellius, and Cocta.

   
   

3. Gaius Quintillianus
   Gaynus, Gayous, Quintilian, Quintilianus, Quencelin, Quyntalyn

   A Roman warrior who was the nephew of the Roman Emperor Lucius. At the beginning of the war between Arthur and Rome, Arthur sent Gawaine, Boso, and Guerin (or Gawaine, Bors, Lionel, and Bedivere) as peace envoys to Lucius.

   During the talks, however, Gaius Quintillianus remarked that Britons were more skilled at bragging and threatening than at battle. Gawaine, enraged at these comments, sliced off Gaius’s head, thus starting a battle and the war. Gawain later killed Marcellus Mucius, a friend of Gaius, and bade him to tell Gaius, when he met him in hell, that there were indeed no people who were better at bragging than the Britons.

   The Vulgate Merlin calls him Titilus.