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Cerdic of Wessex (c. 467–534), was the King of Wessex (519–534), and was regarded as the ancestors to all subsequent Kings of Wessex. Cerdic of Wessex - Official Life and Career. He is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle when he landed in Hampshire in 495 and in 519 gained a great victory at Charford, "but Hengest and Adelle's men had touched hardly more than the coast, and the true conquest of Southern Britain was reserved for a fresh band of Saxons, a tribe known as the Gewissas ...

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King Arthur film - Positive. Positive reviews of the film praised the "battle on the frozen lake" sequence, among other things, and the effort made by the filmmakers to present a new take on the Arthurian legend as it may have actually happened (but some dispute this; see below). Among the cast, many have praised Owen's Arthur, Gruffudd's Lancelot, and Winstone's Bors, among others. Also, fans of the film particularly praise Mikkelsen's portrayal of Tristan, giving intensity to a minor character; these fans also ...

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Lucius Artorius Castus was a Roman general who lived in the late Second Century AD. He was dux (commander) of several legions in Britannia, where Emperor Commodus sent him in the year 181. Along with his personal legion, he guarded Hadrian's Wall (the border between Britannia, or Roman England, and Caledonia, or barbarian Scotland) with a contingent of 5,500 Sarmatian (south Ukrainian) heavy cavalry. Castus’ standard wa ...

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Surrey - British and Roman Surrey. Before Roman times the area today known as Surrey was very probably governed by the Atrebates tribe centred at Calleva in the modern county of Hampshire. They were known to have controlled the southern bank of the Thames from Roman documents describing the nature of tribal relations between them and the powerful Catuvellauni on the north banks. The Atrebates were allies with Rome during their invasion of Britain in 43AD and the territory of Surrey was traversed by Stone Street and Ermine S ...

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Arthur, here Artorius (Clive Owen), is portrayed as a Roman cavalry officer, the son of a Roman father and a Celtic mother, who leads a military force of Sarmatian cavalry in Britain at the close of the Roman occupation in 452 A.D. He and his men man Hadrian's Wall against the Picts, a tribe (or tribes) of locals who resist Roman rule, led by their mysterious leader Merlin. He is not the first Arthur - over the years, many of his ancestors have manned ...

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Curiously, the name Cerdic is thought to be British—a form of the name Ceretic—rather than Germanic in origin. One explanation for this is the possibility that Cerdic's mother was British and that he was given a name used by his mother's people; if so, this would provide evidence for a degree of mixing, both cultural and biological, between the invaders and the native British. J.N.L. Myres noted that when Cerdic and Cynric first appear in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 495 they are described as ealdormen, which at that point ...

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Arthur, here Artorius (Clive Owen), is portrayed as a Roman cavalry officer, the son of a Roman father and a Celtic mother, who leads a military force of Sarmatian cavalry in Britain at the close of the Roman occupation in 452 A.D. He and his men man Hadrian's Wall against the Woads, a Celtic people who resist Roman rule, led by their mysterious leader Merlin. He is not the first Arthur - over the years, many of his ancestors have manned ...

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Surrey contains a good deal of mature woodland (reflected in the official logo of Surrey County Council, a pair of interlocking oak leaves). Among its many notable beauty spots are Box Hill, Leith Hill, Frensham Ponds and Puttenham Common. It is apparently the most wooded county in Great Britain and Box Hill has the oldest untouched area of natural woodland in the UK, one of the oldest in Europe. Much of Surrey is in the Green Belt and is rolling downland, the county's geology being dominated by the chalk hills of the North Downs. Agr ...

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Surrey - National Trust properties. Box Hill just north of Dorking is woodland and chalk downland with superb views from the top of the hill. The eminent British myrmecologist and coleopterist Horace Donisthorpe frequented this location during his studies of British ants. Clandon Park, an 18th century Palladian mansion in West Clandon to the east of Guildford. The house, which holds interesting collections, and the gardens are both attractive. Claremont Landscape Garden, south of Esher. The gardens date from 1715, Dapdune Wharf on the River Wey in Guildford i ...

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Surrey has a population of approximately one million people. The county town is Guildford, which despite having a University, a Castle and a Cathedral is not a city. Unusually, the county administration is based outside of the county's current boundaries in Kingston upon Thames and has been since 1965 when that area, and others, were included within Greater London. There are plans to move the offices to a new site in Woking. [1]. Due to its proximity to London there are a many commuter towns and vi ...

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It would appear that the Arthur depicted in the film is based most closely upon Ambrosius Aurelianus, the Romano-Briton who fought against the Saxons in the 5th century, and was probably the leader of the Romano-British and Celts at the Battle of Mons Badonicus. However, Arthur's full name in the film is Artorius Castus, suggesting a connection to Lucius Artorius Castus, a historical Roman active in Britain in the 2nd century. It is implie ...

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Though he was the eldest son of Aidan mac Gabran, Artur never became king of Dalriada; his brother Eochaid ruled after his death. When Aidan apparently gave up his role and retired to monastic life, Artur became war leader, though Aidan was officially still king. Thus it was Artur who led the Scotti of Dalraida in a war against the Picts, separate from the later war with Northumbria. He was ultimately killed in battle in ...

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As the Western Roman Empire crumbled in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries, a number of ambitious generals in command of provincial armies rebelled and proclaimed themselves emperor. In 383, the Roman dux of Britannia, Magnus Maximus (aka Maximinius or Macsen Wledig) proclaimed himself emperor and crossed, with his army, into Gaul. He quickly defeated and killed the Western Emperor Gratian, and for th ...

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The word arth is modern Welsh for "bear", and among Continental Celts (although not in Britain) there were several bear gods named Artos or Artio. Also, artur (Welsh) and arturus (Latin) meant "bear-man". King Arthur was supposedly referred to by some writers as the Bear of Britain. It has also been suggested that Arthur was originally a Celtic or prehistoric demigod, whose legends were gradually adapted to fit historical fact as a means of keeping the Celtic legends alive after Christianity was introduced. A ...

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He is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle when he landed in Hampshire in 495 and in 519 gained a great victory at Charford, "but Hengest and Adelle's men had touched hardly more than the coast, and the true conquest of Southern Britain was reserved for a fresh band of Saxons, a tribe known as the Gewissas, who landed under Cerdic and his son Cynric on the shores of the Southampton Water, and pushed in 495 to the great Downs of Gwent where Winchester offered so rich a prize. Nowhere was the strife fiercer than here; and it was ...

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Riothamus (aka Rigothamus or Riotimus) was a historical figure who ancient sources listed as "a king of the Britons". He lived in the late 5th Century, and the most of the stories about him were recorded in the Byzantine historian Jordanes’ The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, written in the mid 6th Century, only about 80 years after the presumed death of Riothamus. Circa 460, the Roman diplomat and bishop Gaius Sollius Modestus Sidonius Apollinaris sent a letter to Riothamus, asking his help to quell unrest among the Brettones, Bri ...

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Ambrosius Aurelianus (also sometimes referred to as Aurelius Ambrosius) was a powerful Celto-Roman leader of Britain. He is believed to have been the British commander at the Battle of Badon Hill. According to Gildas (an early British historian and priest who may have been born during Aurelianus’ lifetime) in his sermon, On the Ruin of Britain, following a massive Saxon invasion, Aurelianus was the only person who stayed calm (despite the fact that his parents and most other Roman settlers, had supposedly been killed in the a ...

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Aidan mac Gabran was a king of the Dalriada Scotti from c. 574 to c. 608. He was not British, but could have been an influence on Arthur nonetheless; some theories say that Arthurian legends began in the north, and spread south. It has also been said that the Battle of Badon Hill, supposedly commanded by Arthur, was fought in the north. Aidan was crowned on the island of Iona by St. Columba. Iona was the center of Scottish Christianity and the place where the first Christian church in Scotland was built, and Columba the priest who bro ...

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Arthnou was a prince of Tintagel, who ruled in the 6th Century. Not much else is known of him. A piece of slate (the "Arthur stone"), apparently originally built to dedicate a building or other public works, was discovered in excavations at a 6th-Century fortress in Tintagel. The slate states, in Latin, that "Artognou, father of a descendant of Coll, has had this built". Artognou was the Latin form of a name that would be pronounced Arthnou, ...

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It would appear that the Arthur depicted in the film is based most closely upon Ambrosius Aurelianus, the Romano-Briton who fought against the Saxons in the 5th century, and was probably the leader of the Romano-British and Celts at the Battle of Mons Badonicus. However, Arthur's full name in the film is Artorius Castus, suggesting a connection to Lucius Artorius Castus, a historical Roman active in Britain in the 2nd century. It is implie ...

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