Arthur's Battles
King Arthur was part of the history of the Dark Age, where does he fit into Our Heritage? There is of course the romantic notion of Arthur and there is the serious historic study of the man, but those two visions rarely come together, plus in serious history there is not one mention of any of Arthur's Battles having been fought in Wales.
Of the twelve listed battles in serious history there are more than seventy claims across England and Scotland for one of the twelve battle-sites, not one in Wales except the odd suggestion of Caerleon. A fairly recent claim postulated that each of those battle-sites was located in North Wales, those claims can be found in the book 'Keys to Avalon' a source of good research material.
Adding the North Wales locations to the traditional claims lifts the number of claims to over 82. On that point there are many people who do not believe that there was a real person named King Arthur, there are others who are willing to believe in an Arthur but that he was not a king, and that he had no connection with today's Wales, so where is the truth?
The claims that arise as a result of my study makes each and every battle, i.e. the twelve listed by Nennius, and four others detailed elsewhere, to be all in the ancient Cambria with the twelve being in the south of the ancient Cambria, and the other four in the north-east of the region.
It has taken over ten years to conclude the findings but it is sincerely believed that most of Arthur's life was centred on Wales, the Borderlands, and the West Country. In one way the subject of Arthur starts in Swansea with his battle No 1, or at least in the Ystymllymarch (Oystermouth) of the period, but to learn how that fits in to accepted history it becomes necessary to go a little further back to Arthur's birth at Caput Bovium (Boverton) as opposed to the romantic notion that he was born in Tintagel.
Of the twelve listed battles in serious history there are more than seventy claims across England and Scotland for one of the twelve battle-sites, not one in Wales except the odd suggestion of Caerleon. A fairly recent claim postulated that each of those battle-sites was located in North Wales, those claims can be found in the book 'Keys to Avalon' a source of good research material.
Adding the North Wales locations to the traditional claims lifts the number of claims to over 82. On that point there are many people who do not believe that there was a real person named King Arthur, there are others who are willing to believe in an Arthur but that he was not a king, and that he had no connection with today's Wales, so where is the truth?
The claims that arise as a result of my study makes each and every battle, i.e. the twelve listed by Nennius, and four others detailed elsewhere, to be all in the ancient Cambria with the twelve being in the south of the ancient Cambria, and the other four in the north-east of the region.
It has taken over ten years to conclude the findings but it is sincerely believed that most of Arthur's life was centred on Wales, the Borderlands, and the West Country. In one way the subject of Arthur starts in Swansea with his battle No 1, or at least in the Ystymllymarch (Oystermouth) of the period, but to learn how that fits in to accepted history it becomes necessary to go a little further back to Arthur's birth at Caput Bovium (Boverton) as opposed to the romantic notion that he was born in Tintagel.
