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King Arthur’s
Marriage to Guinevere
The Arthur Story
according to
Geoffrey of Monmouth
and his version’s
political agenda
In his Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) published in
1136, Geoffrey of
Monmouth provided the main outline for the story of King Arthur.
He recounted that after the fall of the Roman Empire
and the departure of the Roman troops, Britain was attacked by Picts from
Scotland and Huns from mainland Europe until a usurping British leader,
Vortigern, invited the Anglo-Saxons (English) over as mercenaries to defend
Britain.
This policy had disastrous results as the Saxons
promptly invaded in their own right. When the
legitimate rulers of Britain, the brothers Aurelius
Ambrosius and Uther, reasserted themselves, Vortigern was killed and the Saxons
temporarily
defeated. With the aid of the magus Merlinus (who had
prophesied Vortigern’s death)
Uther seduced Igerna, wife of his ally Gorlois of
Tintagel, and from that union Arthur was born.
Aurelius and Uther were both later poisoned in Saxon plots.
Arthur grew up to be a great king, inflicting several
defeats on the Saxons, at York, Celidon,
Winchester, his company of knights and allies
including his nephew Walgan, Bedwerus, Caius, Peredur, and Urian. Arthur
married a Roman noblewoman, Guanhamara, and later set off on a campaign of
European conquest.
While he was away, Guanhamara and Modredus (brother to
Walgan and nephew to Arthur)
plotted to take the throne. Arthur returned,
Guanhamara went into a convent while Arthur pursued Modredus, defeating and
killing him at the
battle of Camblam in
In his Vita Merlini (Life of Merlin) in 1151, Monmouth
described Arthur’s resting place as the Fortunate Isles or Isle of Apples
(insula pomorum),
presided over by Morgen le Fay and her nine sisters.
Monmouth’s Historia served a political purpose,
pandering to the Normans by vilifying the Saxon English (whom the Normans had
conquered in 1066), providing Britain with a legendary national hero to match
the French Charlemagne, and painting a vision of a British empire extending far
into Europe.
As a Welshman, Monmouth also used the opportunity to
glorify the Welsh (descendants of the pre-Saxon Britons), moulding his new
national
hero out of earlier Welsh traditions, creating as he
did so a cultural history of
than Beowulf which was an epic from the
Anglo-Viking warrior tradtion.
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