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Sertorius

Hestor, Sertor, Sertorious, Sestor Gestoire, Sextorius, Sextynour

The King of Libya who served Emperor Lucius of Rome.

He was called upon to join Lucius in the war against Arthur. Sertorius, with three others, was assigned by Lucius to liberate the Roman prisoners being taken by Arthur’s warriors to a prison in Paris. The Britons won the battle.

Sertorius later led a force of soldiers at the battle of Soissons, where he killed Kay, but was in turn killed by Arthur.


Sources
Historia Regum Britanniae | Geoffrey of Monmouth, c. 1138
Roman de Brut | Wace, c. 1155
Brut | Layamon, late 12th century to mid-13th century
Vulgate Merlin | 1220-1235
Alliterative Morte Arthure | c. 1400