"Aurelius Ambrosius" redirects here. For the 4th-century Bishop of Milan, see Ambrose.
5th-century Romano-British warlord
Emrys Wledig. A crude illustration from a 15th-century Welsh language version of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae
Ambrosius Aurelianus (Welsh: Emrys Wledig; Anglicised as Ambrose Aurelian and called Aurelius Ambrosius in the Historia Regum Britanniae and elsewhere) was a war leader of the Romano-British who won an important battle against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas. He also appeared independently in the legends of the Britons, beginning with the 9th-century Historia Brittonum. Eventually, he was transformed by Geoffrey of Monmouth into the uncle of King Arthur, the brother of Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, as a ruler who precedes and predeceases them both. He also appears as a young prophet who meets the tyrant Vortigern; in this guise, he was later transformed into the wizard Merlin.
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AmbrosiusAurelianus (Welsh: Emrys Wledig; Anglicised as Ambrose Aurelian and called Aurelius Ambrosius in the Historia Regum Britanniae and elsewhere)...
Myrddin and Ambrosius, two legendary Briton prophets with no connection to Arthur, to form the composite figure that he called Merlinus Ambrosius. His rendering...
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was Aurelianus' title as overlord of all Brythonic territories. He noted that "Riothamus" and Aurelianus are contemporaneous and that Aurelianus is the...
a son of the 6th-century king of Dál Riata in modern Scotland; AmbrosiusAurelianus, who led a Romano-British resistance against the Saxons; Lucius Artorius...
Uther's older brother (elsewhere called Aurelius Ambrosius and likely based on AmbrosiusAurelianus) who saw the comet and received the name "Pendragon"...
British but saved Vortigern to extract this ransom. The tale of AmbrosiusAurelianus and the two dragons found beneath Dinas Emrys. The Historia Brittonum...
"dipped [their] red and savage tongue in the western ocean" before AmbrosiusAurelianus organized a British resistance with the survivors of the initial...
attributed in legend to those who led the opposition, including AmbrosiusAurelianus and perhaps Artorius. This could account for how the Roman terminology...
2nd or 3rd century, to sub-Roman British rulers such as Riotamus, AmbrosiusAurelianus, and the Welsh kings Owain Ddantgwyn, Enniaun Girt, and Athrwys ap...
less "factual" characters: Taliesin, Magnus Maximus, Theodosius, AmbrosiusAurelianus, Vortigern, Constantine III, Myrddin Wyllt, Clovis I, Gwyddno Garanhir...
king. Vortigern, an ambitious warlord-king who battles Ambrosius for Britain. AmbrosiusAurelianus, Merlin's father; a Romanized Celt, he invades England...
century, which would put it in the time frame for Vortigern and AmbrosiusAurelianus. It has long been known that there is a pool inside the fort, but...
Westacott (born 1956), American philosopher Emrys Wledig, Welsh for AmbrosiusAurelianus, 5th century war leader of the Romano-British John Emrys Lloyd (1905–1987)...
first, “Merlinus Ambrosius” (the Arthurian Merlin), identified by Giraldus Cambrensis as Myrddin Emrys —the Welsh form of Ambrosius—, who was found at...
battle was an internal conflict between the rival Britonnic forces of AmbrosiusAurelianus and Vortigern (Vitalinus). In his book Historia Brittonum, Nennius...
battles, Ambrosius takes ill and Uther must lead the army for him. This allows an enemy assassin to pose as a physician and poison Ambrosius. When the...
version of Robert de Boron's Merlin, the name of Uther's elder brother AmbrosiusAurelianus is given as Pendragon, while Uter (Uther) changes his name after...
appears as the son of Budic II of Brittany who married a sister of AmbrosiusAurelianus and Uther Pendragon, making him Arthur's first cousin, but appears...
quarter, and that his subjects wished to depose him and make Aurelius Ambrosius king. He asked the king to allow him to send word to Saxony for more soldiers...
Characters Aeneas Saint Alban Albanactus Alhfrith of Deira Allectus AmbrosiusAurelianus Amphibalus Andragius Archgallo Archmail King Arthur Arvirargus Ascanius...
Characters Aeneas Saint Alban Albanactus Alhfrith of Deira Allectus AmbrosiusAurelianus Amphibalus Andragius Archgallo Archmail King Arthur Arvirargus Ascanius...
(Golaas). According to Historia Regum Britanniae, Gorlois was vassal of AmbrosiusAurelianus, whose arrival at the Battle of Kaerconan ensured the defeat of Hengist...
Characters Aeneas Saint Alban Albanactus Alhfrith of Deira Allectus AmbrosiusAurelianus Amphibalus Andragius Archgallo Archmail King Arthur Arvirargus Ascanius...
from the Roman conquest to Gildas' time; it includes references to AmbrosiusAurelianus and the Britons' victory against the Saxons at the Battle of Mons...
Yellowhammers'. It has also been suggested that the name is derived from AmbrosiusAurelianus, leader of Romano-British resistance to Saxon invasions in the 5th...
for the Holy Grail. Stonehenge - said to be the burial place of AmbrosiusAurelianus and of Uther Pendragon The Berth, near Baschurch in Shropshire, reputed...
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