Meldred is a character who appears in literary accounts of post-Roman Britain. He is identified as a chieftain in part of what is now southern Scotland for a period in the 6th Century. A twelfth century text references a petty king named Meldredus who had ruled in Tweeddale.[1] The village of Drumelzier in Peeblesshire may take its name from him and his seat of power may have been the fort of Tinnis Castle.[2] He is of interest as a character in the source texts on which the Arthurian romances are based and potentially the first named political leader associated with the Scottish Borders in the post-Roman period.
^ MacQueen, W. and MacQueen, J. (eds.), (1989), Vita Merlini Sylvestris, in Scottish Studies 29, pp. 77 - 93, at 81
^Clarkson, T. (2016), Scotland's Merlin: A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins, Birlinn, Edinburgh ISBN 978-1-906566999
Meldred is a character who appears in literary accounts of post-Roman Britain. He is identified as a chieftain in part of what is now southern Scotland...
saint grants the madman's wish, and later that day the shepherds of King Meldred capture him, beat him with clubs, then cast him into the river Tweed where...
succeeded by his son Meldred. He in turn was succeeded by his son Robert FitzMeldred. Already before the Neville marriage, the FitzMeldred family was a major...
underwent a triple-death, at the hands of some shepherds of the under-king Meldred: stoned and beaten by the shepherds, he falls over a cliff and is impaled...
captor of Lailoken is the local king Meldred. Lailoken's madness has endowed him with the gift of prophecy and Meldred holds him in his fortress at Drumeller...
twelfth-century text, Lailoken poses three riddles to his captor King Meldred. The earliest riddles attested in Irish are generally held to be found...
came to existence in the 13th century, by the marriage of Robert fitz Meldred, lord of Raby, to Isabel de Neville, the heiress of a family of Norman...
drowning. This was fulfilled when a gang of jeering shepherds of King Meldred drove him off a cliff, where he was impaled on a stake left by fishermen...
was buried in Winnipeg's Elmwood Cemetery. "Memorable Manitobans: Anna Meldred Speers (1908-1996)". "Memorable Manitobans: Robert James "Jim" Speers (1882-1955)"...
(later Geoffrey de Neville, d. c. 1242), and the grandson of Robert fitz Meldred, Lord of Raby. The identity of Robert de Neville's mother, however, is...
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