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<h2 align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Lost History
of King Arthur</font></h2>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font size="3">Who
was King Arthur? In the late fifth and early sixth centuries, a period
now known as the Dark Ages, the native British won a decisive victory over
the Saxon invaders of their country - the only region of the western Roman
Empire to shake of the dominion of the Germans. British tradition credited
this victory to Arthur.</font><br>
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But it is not as a Dark Age general that Arthur is remembered. The descendants
of the British, the Welsh, Cornish and the Bretons, preserved Arthur’s
memory in a legend still potent in our own day. Their Arthur was a Golden Age
king who would return to lead his people once more. Under his rule they would
regain the land rightfully theirs. This legend was once so powerful, so ardently
believed, that it remained a political threat to the Norman rulers of England
half a millennia after Arthur’s famous victory of Badon.<br>
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Badon is an undoubted historical fact, but Arthur, according to the current
historical consensus, is purely a figure of legend. He is a fit subject for
students of medieval literature, not Dark Age British history, since there
is no evidence for his existence in contemporary British record. But in truth
it is not Arthur who is missing from the record, it is record itself which
is missing.<br>
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Only one British text survives from this period, a sermon by a monk named Gildas
addressed to Britain’s rulers, both lay and ecclesiastical, condemning
their vices and warning them of the dire consequences that must follow. it
is titled <em>On the Ruin of Britain</em>. Why has only this one text survived?
Dark Age historians do have an explanation. The Roman Withdrawal caused the
complete moral and intellectual collapse of Britain, as Gildas testifies. His
sermon directly informs us of the political and moral degeneracy of his contemporaries,
and the historical introduction to this sole surviving text is a tissue of
errors which betray Gildas’ complete ignorance of the Roman period, and
thus the total intellectual collapse of contemporary culture. But this is not
a logical deduction from Gildas' text. What his sermon does prove was that
there was at least one Briton in the period who could write - and who clearly
expected many others to be able to read. British literacy did not evaporate
in consequence of Rome’s absence. Then there must have been a written
record which has not survived.<br>
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The earliest surviving text to name Arthur is the ninth century <em>Historia
Brittonum </em>sometimes ascribed to Nennius. On the assumption that the earliest
surviving must be the first produced, Dark Age historians have now concluded
that Arthur was invented in the ninth century. The Britons faked a glorious
past for themselves, and that fraud was spectacularly expanded in the twelfth
century, when Geoffrey of Monmouth created <em>The History of the Kings of
Britain</em>. The Arthur Geoffrey introduced to western Europe was a British
emperor, the equal, and the rival, of the Emperor of Rome.<br>
<br>
Dark Age historians have nothing but contempt for this Imperial Arthur, but
there is a consistency and cohesion about the twelfth century legend which
cannot be historically irrelevant. It was the enemies of the Roman Church who
upheld and promoted Arthur’s legend. The Grail legend legend connects
him with a non-Roman Christianity, originating before the Empire’s conversion.
In Geoffrey’s story Arthur actually fought Rome.<br>
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The riddle of Arthur can, in truth, be resolved from this one text, probably
the most vilified, and certainly the most misunderstood history ever written.
Condemned for centuries as a deliberate fraud, <em>The History of the Kings
of Britain</em> is still used by Dark Age historians as a stick to beat the
Arthurians with. But that is because they haven’t understood it for what
it is.<br>
<br>
<em>The History of the Kings of Britain</em> is not a fraud, it was never
intended to fool its readers into accepting British tradition as real history.
It is a legal case, based on the history known and accepted by Geoffrey’s
contemporaries. Geoffrey directs his readers to critically examine the texts
preserved and endorsed by the Britons’ opponents, texts which are still
extant. And those texts prove his case. <br>
<br>
The native Britons did not collapse into cultural and political darkness the
moment Rome withdrew her legions and her tax collectors. Independent Britain
freed herself from Roman and Saxon alike. But her period of glory was brief.
A resurgent Roman Empire destroyed the Arthurian Golden Age. It was Rome’s
attempt to regain control of a lost province which turned Britain over to the
Saxons. To the Roman authorities the rule of pagans was to be preferred to
that of Christian heretics. But Rome’s Church, in later years, preferred
this fact to be forgotten. And the written record which has come down to us
has passed through her hands.<br>
<br>
Arthur was not invented to fill the gap in the British record. The gap was
created to remove Arthur. But enough remains to prove his historical reality.
It is only the anti-Celtic bias of Dark Age historians - a bias proclaimed
by their terminology - which prevents them from seeing the obvious. The historical
Arthur was, as British tradition remembered him, the Emperor of Britain, saviour
of his country and defender of its religion, a Christian tradition older than
the Roman Church, and which Rome regarded as a heresy.</font></p>
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<h2 align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Contents</font></h2>
<h2 align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Content1"></a></font></h2>
<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Book 1
- The Controversy</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Ch1"></a>Chapter
1: The Riddle of Arthur </font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Arthur Stone, The Pseudo-History of Britain, Dux Bellorum, The Arthur
Heresy, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="VMP/Book%201/Chapter%201/Sub-RBrit.html">Sub-Roman
Britain</a>, Arthur and Tintagel, The Question of Arthur</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%201.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Ch2"></a>Chapter
2: Britain’s Emperor</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Dark
Century, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Maximus,
The End of Roman Britain, Independent Britain, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Roman Withdrawal, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Saxon Advent, Vortigern and Ambrosius, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Roman Missions, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Saxon Revolt, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Britain’s
Recovery, Riothamus, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Vortimer,
The Last of the Romans, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Emperor
Arthur, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Figure of Arthur, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>What’s
in a name?</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%202.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Ch3"></a>Chapter
3: National Myths</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Arthur Deception, The British Hero, An Age of Darkness, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Heirs of Rome, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Politics of History, Enlightenment and Empire</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%203.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Ch4"></a>Chapter
4: Forbidden Histories</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Nature of the Record, The Druids and Stonehenge, The Celts and Reincarnation, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Bruti
Britones, Geoffrey’s Deception, Geoffrey and Gildas, The Return
of Arthur</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%204.html"><em>Synopsis</em></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Content2"></a></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Book 2
- The Legend</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Ch5"></a>Chapter
5: The Grail Mystery</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Hidden Church, From Ritual to Romance, The Cup of Sovereignty, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Sacrament of Marriage, The Matter of Britain, <a href="VMP/Book%202/Chapter%205/VulgRewrt.html">The
Vulgate Rewrite</a>, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Wolfram’s
Parzival, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Underground Stream</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%205.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch6"></a>Chapter 6: Perfidious Britons </font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Celtic Church, The Synod of Whitby, Augustine’s Arrival, The British
Collapse, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Politics of Conversion</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%206.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch7"></a>Chapter 7: The Johannine Tradition </font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Celtic Sleepwalkers, Pelagius and Augustine, Colman’s Defence, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Petrine Claim, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Lucius Legend, The First British Church</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%207.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch8"></a>Chapter 8: The Church and the Heretics </font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Priscillian’s
Heresy, Simon’s Tonsure, The Church of the Empire, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Church of the East, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Taliesin’s
Secret, The Church of the Celts, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Conhospitae</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%208.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch9"></a>Chapter 9: Sovereignty</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>SS.
Joseph and Bran, The Marriage Feast of Kingship, The Welsh Romances, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Arthur
and Charlemagne, The Tyrant Arthur</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%209.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Content3"></a></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Book 3
- The Sources</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Ch10"></a>Chapter
10: Geoffrey of Monmouth</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Geoffrey’s
Motives, The Norman use of Arthur, The Anglo-Normans, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>King
Robert, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Robert’s
Faction, Geoffrey’s Technical Terminology, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Geoffrey’s
Case, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Nature of History, Arthur’s War</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%2010.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch11"></a>Chapter 11: Bede</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Honest
Bede, The Last King of Britain, Cadwalla of the Gewissae, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Cadwalla
the Tyrant, The New Chosen People, Lying Tales</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%2011.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch12"></a>Chapter 12: Nennius</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Historia Brittonum, The Nennius Preface, The British Record, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Gap in History</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%2012.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch13"></a>Chapter 13: Gildas</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="VMP/Book%203/Chapter%2013/SonsMordrd.html">The
Sons of Mordred</a>, The Five Tyrants, The Sins of the Britons, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Gildas’ Motives, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Gildas’ Sources,
The Holy Empire, The Saxon Chastisement, </em></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Britain’s
Champion, </em><em>Vortigern's Heir</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%2013.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Content4"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Book 4
- The War</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="Ch14"></a>Chapter 14: Restitutor
Orbis</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Arthur-Riothamus,
The Rebirths of Rome, The Year 469-70, The Mighty Shadow</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%2014.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch15"></a>Chapter 15: The Battle for Gaul</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The Last Gallic
Emperor, The Bacaudae, The Western Succession, </em></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Tibatto’s
Revolt, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Rescue of Europe, The Gothic Alliance, The Arian Dominion, </em></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The Fall of Syagrius, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Leo
and Childeric, <a href="VMP/Book%204/Chapter%2015/RomeChamp.html">Rome’s Champion</a></em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%2015.html">Synopsis</a></em></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<a name="Ch16"></a>Chapter 16: The Fall of Arthur’s Britain</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p> <font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Gildas’ Date,
Gildas’ Crusade, Justinian’s Reconquest, The War on the Continent, </em></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Camlann, </em></font><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>The
Disappeared</em></font></p>
<p align="right"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Synopsis/Chapter%2016.html"><em>Synopsis</em></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a name="Appendices"></a>Appendices</font></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <em><a href="VMP/Book%202/Appx%20B2/BelovDisc.html">The
Beloved Disciple</a>, <a href="VMP/Book%202/Appx%20B2/WifeChrst.html">The Wife of Christ</a>, <a href="VMP/Book%202/Appx%20B2/UncleJo.html">Uncle
Joseph</a></em></font></p>
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