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King Arthur (Welsh: Brenin Arthur, Cornish: Arthur Gernow, Breton: Roue Arzhur, French: Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain. He is a folk hero and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain .
For academics today, the question of the realism of King Arthur has been largely banished to popular books, video games, and movies." [ 2 ] Andrew Breeze argued in 2015 and 2020 that Arthur was historical, and claims to have identified the locations of his battles as well as the place and date of his death.
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
King of Denmark 1534–1588: Henry IV King of France 1553–1610: King James VI and I [a] 1566–1625 r. 1567–1625 (Scotland) r. 1603–1625 (England) Anne of Denmark 1574–1619 Queen of England and Ireland: John IV 1604–1656 King of Portugal: Henry Frederick 1594–1612 Prince of Wales: Elizabeth Stuart 1596–1662 Queen of Bohemia ...
Similarly, "Round Tables"—jousting and dancing in imitation of Arthur and his knights—occurred at least eight times in England between 1242 and 1345, including one held by Edward I in 1284 to celebrate his conquest of Wales and consequent "reunification" of Arthurian Britain. [14]
A 5,000-year-old Neolithic chambered tomb in England, called Arthur’s Stone, is named for Camelot’s King Arthur. Little is known about the historic site, which has prompted archaeologists to ...
The following is a list and assessment of sites and places associated with King Arthur and the Arthurian legend in general. Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try ...
Notably, the King of Scotland and later also of England and Ireland, James VI and I, claimed his 1603 unification of Britain into the United Kingdom had been foretold by Merlin. [ 78 ] Merlin's apprentice in chivalric romances is often Arthur's half-sister, Morgan le Fay , who is sometimes depicted as Merlin's lover [ 79 ] and sometimes as just ...