Vortiporius
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Vortiporius, often shortened to Vortipor, was a king of Dyfed in the early to mid-6th century. He ruled over an area approximately corresponding to modern Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthenshire, Wales. Re
The Latin inscription on the 'Monument of Voteporigis the Protector', from a rubbing of the stone.
Britain.circa.540
Vortigern
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Vortigern, also spelt Vortiger, Vortigan, Voertigern and Vortigen, was a 5th-century warlord in Britain, known perhaps as a king of the Britons or at least connoted as such in the writings of Bede. Hi
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…to him as 'Gwrthevyr' (though Vortiporius' proper Modern Welsh spelling is Gwrdebyr; here the name has been confused with that of Vortimer, the son of Vortigern). In his Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates, James Ussher also repeats the account, attributing the information to Geoffrey. Vortipor ap Aergol…
Meeting of Vortigern and Rowena painted by William Hamilton
Vortigern's Tower in a 14th century illuminated manuscript of Wace's Roman de Brut
Merlin reads his prophecies to King Vortigern. British Library MS Cotton Claudius B VII f.224, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetiae Merlini.
Illustration in a fifteenth-century manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136). Vortigern and Merlin watch two dragons fighting. The red dragon represents the British and the white one the Saxons.