British Kings and Queens
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attention all anglophiles!!!: the newly released book "British
Chronicles: Kings & Queens of Britain" published by Heritage Books is
now available. The book is in two volumes, one is the book [ten
chapters] [about 400 pages]; and, the other, volume two, are all
genealogical charts [about 250 plus pages]. It is available directly
from the publisher, Heritage Books, but for some reason amazon.com
says it is out of stock and is just taking orders. The URL is
http://www.heritagebooks.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HBI&Product_Code=H3301&Category_Code=
ISBN 978-0-7884-3301-6 [set]
"BRITISH CHRONICLES: KINGS & QUEENS OF BRITAIN"
Chapter One, "Ancient Britain and Early Kings", is based on a variety
of sources, such as the references to Britain in classical writings;
legends, mythology, and folklore; oral tradition that was committed to
writing in early British literature [e.g. "The Triads"]; studies in
antiquities by modern scholars; and on findings of archaeologists.
Chapter Two, "Celtic Brehins and The Old British Royal House", gives
an account of the legendary history of Britain and traces the royal
line from Brutus, an Etruscan prince of Trojan ancestry descended from
ancient Minoan royalty, who, an exile from Greece originally from Alba
Longa in Italy [the mother-city of Rome], according to legend, came to
Britain as the leader of a colony of the Albanese, usually identified
with the Britanni [Brigantes], who were later successively Celticized,
Romanized, and Anglicized, by later invaders and settlers. Brutus
fought and drove out the island’s aborigines [the Picts] and slew
their king, Ogmios [chapter one], ending the Bronze Age in Britain and
introducing the Iron Age. Brutus, or Prytos, or Britto, whom Roman
Mythology reckons as Britain’s first king, the ancestor of the British
Iron Age Royal House, founded a new monarchy in Britain, the Iron Age
British Monarchy, and was the first "Bre[n]hin" ["King of Britain"],
circa 1100BC, whose successors, the Celtic Brehins, the Iron Age
British High-Kings, that is, the Old British Royal House, flourished
throughout the Iron Age to the end of the first-quarter of the Roman
Era, to Lucius, the last client-king of Roman Britain before the
"hundred-year interregnum", who died in AD180/1 survived by an only
child, a baby-daughter.
Chapter Three, "Roman Britain", covers the Roman occupation of the
country when Britain was a province of the Roman Empire under the
overlordship of the Roman Emperors, who were represented locally in
Britain by the Roman Governors. The chapter gives a brief history of
Britain's "Roman Era", and accounts for the descendants of the Old
British Royal House, that is, the heirs of the old pre-Roman British
kings who held the title "[g]wledic" ["prince"] as native rulers of
Britain in Roman service during the period of the republic in the
second-quarter of the Roman Era, from Casnar "Wledic", the first one
(AD184), to Carawn "Wledic", who restored monarchy in Britain
(AD286).
Chapter Four, "The British Emperors", records the fortunes of the
British Emperors, from Carausius [Carawn "Wledic" of ancient Welsh
annals], called variously a Roman, British, or Dutch prince, who, the
Roman Governor of Britain, married to Oriuna [sister of St. Helena],
one of the three daughters of the British "wledic" [later king] Cole
[II] [not to be confused with Old King Cole, an earlier king], revived
the British Monarchy in Year 286 after a hundred-year interregnum, or
rather founded a new British kingdom modeled on the Roman imperial
system, and later united the British crown to the imperial crown of
the Roman Empire at the time of his election to the consulate in Year
289/292 when the empire was decentralized into thirds with three co-
emperors, of whom Carausius was one, whose successors reigned in
Britain during the last half of the Roman Era, to Empress Marcia [GM’s
Queen Marcia], the last of the British imperial line, whose position
dissolved in the midst of civil wars in Britain following the [third]
evacuation of the Roman Army in Year 418.
Chapter Five, "Rulers, Tyrants, and Kings of Dark Age Britain",
chronicles British History during the fifth century, the so-called
"lost century", and gives a record of the post-Roman British rulers,
from Gorboduc, whose death was followed by a civil war, from which
emerged Dunvallo "Molmutius", called "restorer of the British
kingdom", who, a British prince, revived the British Monarchy on the
model of the old pre-Roman British kingdom in the country’s
nationalist tradition, whose successors, the Dark Age kings, held sway
in Britain during the sub-Roman period or the pre-English era of the
Early Middle Ages, to Anblaud "The Great", who fell in battle fighting
invading Saxons.
Chapter Six, "The Age of Arthur", sets the legendary King Arthur into
his historically accurate milieu. The chapter gives a chronological
compilation of Arthuriana from many sources and recounts the legend of
King Arthur, who, the posthumous illegitimate son of a Dark Age
British king, descended from the earlier British emperors, recovered
the old Roman province of Britain from conquering Saxons in the years
following the episode of "The Sword In The Stone" (495), for which he
was recognized as "King of Britain" (504), and revived the British
Monarchy after an interregnum during a vacancy of the throne (507),
and founded a new kingdom in Britain, Year 519 (28 March), that is,
the "United Kingdom", the union of Britain, Ireland, and France, which
is sometimes considered as the starting-point for Modern British
History. The chapter continues with the story of Arthur’s successors
during the Arthurian Age, through succeeding generations, who tried
and failed to turn back the Anglo-Saxon advance, and were pushed into
Wales where they established themselves, to Queen Galaes [the Queen
Meliadice of medieval romance], the last of the senior-line of
Arthur’s House, who, according to one account, was murdered along with
her only child, a nine-year old son, Year 735, in a conspiracy among
rivaling political parties in the royal court which supported various
male-heirs of secondary-lines of Arthur’s descendants that sparked
civil wars to breakout among the Britons, after which conquering
barbarian-kings sat on the British Throne.
Chapter Seven, "Anglo-Saxon Bretwaldas", gives a record taken from
old Saxon chronicles of the Anglo-Saxon Bretwaldas [High-Kings], from
Aella of Sussex, who, a Saxon [or Hunnish] chieftain, descended from
ancient Teutonic [or Hunnish] tribal chiefs, led the migration of the
Saxons [and other "barbarian" tribes] to England from Germany in the
great Anglo-Saxon invasion, which took place at the time of the
general collapse of the Roman Empire (476/477ff), and conquered
England within three years, and became the first Bretwalda, Year 479,
whose successors flourished during the Anglo-Saxon Era, to Egbert of
Wessex, the last Bretwalda, Year 829, after whose death the country
was overrun by invading Vikings who conquered England and introduced
the Viking Age.
Chapter Eight, "The Viking Age", unfolds the saga of the Viking Kings
of England, from Ogier "The Dane" [Holger "Danske"], who, a scion of
the Scyldings of Denmark, attacked the British Isles with his war-band
of seafaring marauders from his pirate fort in the Orkney Islands,
occupied parts of England in 796 and founded a viking-state called the
"Danelaw" [territory of the Danes, or Vikings], and, called "King of
all Normans" ["North-Men" = Vikings] in the British Isles, was
traditionally a "King of England", whose successors held sway in
England during the Viking Age, to Oeric "Blood-Axe", the last Viking-
King of England or the "Danelaw", who was killed following a battle he
lost in 954 fighting the native English who retook their country.
Chapter Nine, "The Old English Royal House", sets forth a narrative,
taken from historical records, of England’s kings, from Alfred "The
Great", who, generally reckoned as the first "King of England", led
the native English resistance against the Viking conquerors and
eventually liberated the country from its foreign occupiers and won
the allegiance of his fellow countrymen who acclaimed him as their
king Year 886, whose successors, the heirs of the old Anglo-Saxon
bretwaldas, namely, the [new] Kings of England, that is, the Old
English Royal House, flourished during the High Middle Ages, to Harold
II, who fell fighting the Normans [descendants of Vikings who had
settled in France] under William "The Conqueror" Year 1066.
Chapter Ten, "The Conqueror and His Successors", takes a brief look
at England’s monarchs and the highlights of each reign, from William
"The Conqueror", through the houses of Normandy, Blois, and Anjou
[called "Plantagenet", which divided into the two great branches of
York and Lancaster], in the Late Middle Ages, the House of Tudor
during The Renaissance, and, the houses of Stuart, Orange, Hanover,
Saxe-Coburg, and/or Windsor, in our Modern Era, to H.M. Queen
Elizabeth II.
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APPENDIX: VOLUME TWO
The text of the book is followed by an appendix which gives
genealogical charts of the great dynasties that have established
themselves in Britain over the course of time, which are: (1) the
Bronze Age Sacral-Kings; (2) the Celtic Brehins [Iron Age High-Kings];
(3) the Roman Governors of Britain; (4) the British Emperors; (5) the
Dark Age Kings; (6) Arthur and His Successors; (7) the Anglo-Saxon
Bretwaldas [High-Kings]; (8) the Viking Age Kings; (9) the Old English
Royal House; and, (10) "The Conqueror and His Successors" [to the
royal family today]; and, which shows genealogical-links via royal
marriages between British Royalty and other royal houses worldwide.
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