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	Battle of Mons Badonicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Battle of Mount Badon (Latin Mons Badonicus, Welsh Mynydd Baddon) Romano-British and Celts inflicted a severe defeat on an invading Anglo-Saxon army sometime in the decade before or after 500.
		An old Welsh poem ascribed to Taliesin (who lived in the last half of the sixth century), refers to "the battle of Badon with Arthur, chief giver of feasts....the battle which all men remember".
		While the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is silent about this battle, it clearly documents a gap of almost seventy years between two major Anglo-Saxon leaders, or Bretwaldas, in the fifth and sixth centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Mons_Badonicus (1186 words)

	Arthur, the rightful king - chapter 3 - Arthur's battles; a Mystic Realms eBook
		The eighth battle was at the fortress of Guinnion, in which Arthur carried the image of holy Mary ever virgin on his shoulders; and the pagans were put to flight on that day.
		The twelfth battle was on Mount Badon in which there fell in one day 960 men from one charge by Arthur; and no one struck them down except Arthur himself, and in all the wars he emerged as victor.
		It was possible using the beacon chains, the traditions of mounted warfare inherited from the Romans and the lateral communications in the south -west, to assemble enough men to delay or to contain any invasion until the main force arrived, possibly by sea.
	www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /arthur/arthur3.htm (2273 words)

	Battle of Mount Badon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A decisive battle between the Britons and Saxons; it's location and the warlords involved is something still debated.
		Unfortunately, Gildas doesn't say where Mount Badon is or who fought in the battle.
		Modern scholars believe that it was in fact Ambrosius Aurelianus who fought in the battle, not Arthur, and that the battle was against Aelle of Sussex.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/badon.html (157 words)

	Military History Online - King Arthur
		The eighth was the battle in the stronghold of Guinnion, in which Arthur carried upon his choulders the image of the Blessed Mary, the Eternal Virgin.
		The sixth battle, on the river Bassas, is unknown.
		The ninth battle was fought at the castle of Guinnon.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /ancient/britain/twelve.aspx (1661 words)

	IV. Arthur. King Arthur and His Knights. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At length the duke was killed in battle and the king espoused Igerne.
		This is called the victory of Mount Badon, and, however disguised by fable, it is regarded by historians as a real event.
		After the battle Arthur was disarmed and conducted to the bath by the princess Guenever, while his friends were attended by the other ladies of the court.
	www.bartleby.com /182/104.html (3023 words)

	Nennius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"The first battle was at the mouth of the river which is called Glein; the second, third, fourth, and fifth on another river, which is called Dublas and is in the region of Linnuis; the sixth battle on a river which is called Bassas.
		"The seventh was the battle in the wood of Celidon, that is Cat Coit Celidon.
		The tenth battle he fought on the shore of the river, which is called Tribruit.
	www.uidaho.edu /student_org/arthurian_legend/origins/nennius.html (165 words)

	LEGIO
		Two main battles are known, the battle of Mount Badon and the battle of Camlann.
		The battle of Camlann would become the reason the Anglo-Saxons were able to gain a foothold in Britain and become its citizens not its foreigners because by the time the battle of Camlann ended there was no one left to fully stop the Anglo-Saxons from seizing more and more land.
		When we dated the battle of Mount Badon we found that the Annales Cambriae was 25 years late with its date, that could be because the authors knew there was approximately twenty years of peace in between Arthur’s two main battles and had gotten the two confused.
	users.telenet.be /xamdrasiel/karthur.htm (1893 words)

	Battle of Badon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The battle of Badon or Badon Mount, was one of the later, - Nennius says the twelfth, - and most successful of the battles fought by Arthur and the British elders, against the Saxons under Cerdic.
		It is remarkable that the latter Gildas speaks of the battle as " obsessio," a siege.
		The feats performed by the hero Arthur, at the battle of Badon Mount, are celebrated in Drayton's verse.
	camelot.celtic-twilight.com /infopedia/b/battle_badon.htm (388 words)

	Artorius, Ambrosius, Arthur: Questing for the historical Arthur, King of the Britons
		The eighth battle was at the fort of Guinnion, in which Arthur carried the image of the blessed Mary.
		Badon is traditionally associated with Bath because of the similarity of the names, though there is no solid evidence to support the assumption.
		In his list of twelve battles, Nennius wrote that in the eighth battle Arthur carried the image of the blessed Mary on his shield, and with her help inflicted great slaughter upon the enemies.
	www.littleboh.com /arthur.shtml (6738 words)

	§2. Nennius and Gildas. XII. The Arthurian Legend. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Welsh monk and historian Gildas mentions the battle of Mount Badon in his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae.
		The battle of Mount Badon, together with another which was destined to overshadow it completely in the later developments of Arthurian story, is recorded, and dated, in Annales Cambriae—; the oldest extant MS.
		In the year 537 was fought “the battle of Camlan, in which Arthur and Medraut fell.” Medraut is the Modred, or Mordred, of romance.
	www.bartleby.com /211/1202.html (986 words)

	Badon
		According to Gildas, the location of Arthur's climactic battle with the Saxons.
		This victory at the "siege of Mount Badon" was followed by a period of relative peace.
		Southern England is almost certainly the location of Badon and the "mount" may be in reference to an Iron Age hill-fort.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/badon.html (211 words)

	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Battles & Wars : M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Battle, possibly at Oswestry, at which Oswald, king of Northumbria, was defeated and killed by Penda, king of Mercia.
		A battle in which the British attacked the German-held Belgian village and ridge at Messines in West Flanders, south of Ypres.
		Yorkshire battle at which untrained forces led by William Melton, archbishop of York, was crushed by the Scots under Sir James Douglas.
	hometown.aol.com /calderdale2/w353_m.html (1071 words)

	Glastonbury Arthur's Avalon
		The seventh battle was in the Caledonian wood that is Cat Coit Celidon.
		The eighth battle was in Fort Guinnion in which Arthur carried the image of St Mary the Virgin, his mother.
		The twelfth was on Mount Badon, in which nine hundred and sixty men fell in one day from one attack by Arthur, and no one overthrew them except himself alone.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /legends/arthurs_avalon3.html (624 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Mons Badonicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gildas, a near contemporary who states in his essay, De Excidio Britonum or The Ruin of Britain that the battle occurred in the year of his birth, does not name the leaders of either side, nor provides any information that helps identify its location.
		quique quadragesimus quartus ut novi orditur annus mense iam uno emenso qui et meae nativitatis est, which is typically translated to mean "the year of the Battle of Mount Badon.
		If Gildas was old enough to be preaching in, at the latest, 514, it is implausible to place the date of Gildas's birth, and therefore of the Battle of Mont Badon, later than 498.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Mons-Badonicus (1204 words)

	Combat During the Time of King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		.The tenth battle was waged on the banks of a river which is called Tribruit." The great number of river battles reinforces the notion that combat at this time was open and mobile, especially when one considers the lack of battles that took place at forts and other strongholds.
		The casualty numbers given by Nennius in the battle of Badon may seem quite high, but in fact such a number was usually the exception, for armies in the fifth and sixth centuries were rather small.
		In all likelihood, the siege of Badon was probably undertaken by the Saxons with a force of 1500-2000 men.
	www.georgetown.edu /users/kammerb/combat.htm (1951 words)

	Frontline Fellowship - King Arthur Film Review
		There is also a remarkable battle scene on a frozen river where Arthur and his knights sucker a battalion of Saxons into a charge over the increasingly fragile ice.
		Nennius records: Arthur's twelfth battle was on Mount Badon, in which there fell in one day 960 men from the onslaught of Arthur only…and in all his battles he was victor…” Geoffrey of Monmouth in his History of the Kings of Britain (1136) gives further details.
		Arthur's victory at Mount Badon was closer to Wales than to Scotland - and it certainly did not involve the strategy of allowing the invaders past the wall before engaging them.
	www.frontline.org.za /articles/King%20arthur.htm (1301 words)

	My Thesis
		The seventh was the battle in the wood of Celidon...The eighth was the battle at the castle Guinnion...The ninth battle was fought in the city of the Legion.
		The eleventh was the battle waged on the mountain...Agned.
		The twelfth was the battle at Mount Badon, in which...nine hundred and sixty men fell to the ground during one onset of Arthur...
	www.westnet.com /~levins/thesis.html (14281 words)

	Mount Badon: The Importance of the High Ground
		It doesn't really matter what Mount Badon really was for the purposes of this discussion.
		Mount Badon was a tall hill, a mountain if you will.
		Whatever the case, whoever controlled the hilltop, it was the high ground that was of supreme importance that day, for whoever held it at the end was in control of both armies and the countryside for as far as the eye could see.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_british_history/53501 (546 words)

	The Historical Arthur: A Bibliography by P. J. C. Field
		Places the early battles in or near Lancaster, Lincoln, Leeds and the Pict's Wall, moving thence to the Welsh Marches for the later battles.
		Badon's site is unknown but the battle occurred prior to A.D. Argues that the rest of the battles were fought against the Jutes of Kent in southern England.
		Argues for two, and possibly three, battles at Badon, in A.D. 516, 577 and 665; concludes that Badon is Bath.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/hisarth.htm (3409 words)

	The Legend of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and Camelot
		Betrayed by his wife Guinevere and his son or nephew Mordred, he was mortally wounded in battle against Mordred and carried away to Avalon, the land of immortal heroes.
		Although Arthur isn't mentioned by name in that account, Nennius' History of the Britons written in the early 9th century says that Arthur was dux bellorum of the Britons -- war chief -- or general, at the Battle of Mount Badon.
		The Cambrian Annals written in the 10th century say that Arthur defeated the Saxons at Mount Badon in 516, and also mentions the battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut (Mordred) fell.
	members.tripod.com /prequelrumors/fox2.html (1489 words)

	Mons Badonicus Google Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Battle of Mount Badon (in the Latin Mons Badonicus and in Welsh Mynydd...
		at the Battle of Mons Badonicus Battle of Mount Badon (Latin Mons Badonicus,...
		He was British chieftain who led the armies of Britain in battle at the Battle of Mons Badonicus (Badon Hill), a battle which really happened.
	www.artquilt.com /search/google/Mons_Badonicus (4013 words)

	The Heroic Age: Lucius Artorius Castus
		This battle list has always posed problems for Arthurian scholars who have attempted to identify the sites that are named in the account of Arthur's military career (Jackson 1945:44).
		In any event, the last battle was at a place that became associated with Mount/Hill/Rock Badon in later traditions, though the original battle possibly took place near Dumbarton Rock in Strathclyde.
		While Camlann, Arthur's last battle, is not part of the battle list, it was a famous battle attributed to Arthur that was fought in Britain.
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/2/ha2lac.htm (4034 words)

	Badon Battle
		Charford, in southcentral England, is another locale which claims to be the site for the battle of Badon.
		Arthur's Battle of Badon remains an enigma; since the publication of both my books, The Historic King Arthur and Historic Figures of the Arthurian Era, no revelations in archaeology or discovery of manuscripts heretofore hidden has provided fresh information.
		I believe, therefore, that the Bath/Badon material used by Morris cannot promulgate the theory that the Battle of Badon was fought on a tor adjacent to the city of Bath.
	kingarthura-z.home.att.net /Badon.html (1111 words)

	Cadbury Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Badon was significant because it held the Anglian and Saxon advance for forty years.
		Arthur and Medrault's last battle is recorded at "Camlann" in 537.
		Following the Battle of Mount Badon there elapsed 40 years of peace between the Romano-Britons and the invading Anglians and Saxons.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/cadburycastle.html (653 words)

	Mystical-WWW - King Arthur Fact, Semi-legend or Myth?, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The existence of the 'Battle of Badon', mentioned in both the previous books is confirmed by the third book, written during the so-called 'Dark Ages'.
		The Annals of Wales account mentions that the battle takes place near a 'Mount Badon', which is believed by some to be located not in Wales but near 'Salisbury Hill', near the city of Bath (UK).
		Of some dispute still is the exact date of the battle as early Welsh records indicate that it may have taken place not in AD516, but in AD518, but what we do know is that the battle took place.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /king_arthur/1.htm (1498 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		As with Badon Hill, the location has yet to be conclusively proven.
		Legend has it that the famous abbey was the inspiration of the community's first great leader, Joseph of Arimathea, not coincidentally the legendary bearer of the Holy Grail to Britain.
		Some say it was the site of the Battle of Badon Hill.
	geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (1241 words)

	The Legend of King Arthur
		There is not a lot of proof that he really existed but certain historical facts lead one to the conclusion that a character did exist who was involved in fighting the Saxons.
		If Nennius whetted our appetite for this saviour, a more reliable source who was born the same year as the Battle of Mount Badon and was named Gildas, makes no mention of Arthur.
		When the Saxons reached their limit of advancement, the Celts of Cornwall were cut off from the Welsh strain by the Bristol Channel, who in turn were annexed from the Northern Celts.
	www.battle1066.com /arthur.shtml (1520 words)

	Aeclectic Tarot Forum - Legend: The Chariot, The Battle of Mount Badon
		In a chariot pulled by a pair of magnificent muscular horses, Arthur leads his troops into the Battle of Mount Badon.
		The charging chariot represents a dynamic vehicle of the libido drawing the protagonist into action, but this is a prepared and planned engagement, and the horses are suitably armoured for defense.
		Just as Arthur is constrained in the battle by being a leader, the chariot is constrained to the narrow road.
	www.tarotforum.net /showthread.php?t=36722 (2114 words)

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