Historia Regum Britanniae
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De gestis Britonum, commonly known as Historia regum Britanniae, is a fictitious account of British history written around 1136 by the Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the
Illumination from a 15th-century manuscript of Historia regum Britanniae showing Vortigern and Ambros watching the fight between two dragons.
Leir of Britain
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Leir was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain. According to Geoffrey's genealogy of th
Historia Regum Britanniae
…seen to be wildly inaccurate. It remains, however, a valuable piece of medieval literature, which contains the earliest known version of the story of King Lear and his three daughters, and helped popularise the legend of King Arthur. Geoffrey starts the book with a short dedication. He claims that he was given…
King Leir and his daughters, a marginal illustration in the Chronica Majora, c. 1250
Lear and Cordelia in Prison by William Blake, c. 1779