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  Ebraucus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ebraucus (Welsh: Efrawc) was a legendary king of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
By pillaging the cities and shores and slaughtering many men, he became extremely wealthy and enriched the lands of Britain.
He founded Kaerebrauc (City of Ebraucus) south of the Humber and Alclud in Albany.
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 Mempricius - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Mempricius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
He abandoned his wife and his son, Ebraucus, to live a life of sodomy.
While on a hunting expedition, he was separated from his companions and attacked by a pack of wolves.
He died and was succeeded by his son Ebraucus.
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 Geoffrey of Monmouth
By these means he obtained the dominion of the whole island, over which he exercised such tyrann, that he left scarcely a nobleman alive in it, and either by violence or treachery oppressed everyone that he apprehended might be likely to succeed him, pursuing his hatred to his whole race.
At last, in the twentieth year of his reign, while he was hunting, he retired from his company into a valley, where he was surrounded by a great multitude of ravenous wolves, and deoured by them in a horrible manner.
He was the first after Brutus who invaded Gaul witha fleet, and distressed their provinces by killing their men and laying waste their cities; and having by these means enriched himself with an infinite quantity of gold and silver, he returned victorious.
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 Mitakuye Oyasin
In the twentiwth year of his reign he was seperated from his hunting party, surrounded by wolves, and eaten.
Ebraucus (Enrog Cadarn) (35) took the crown at his fathers death.
Brutus (36) GreenShield Ebraucus eldest son took the crown at his fathers death.
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 THE KINGS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS: A CHRONOLOGY
Then his son, Mempricius, ruled for 20 years, and his reign, we are told, roughly coincided with that of Saul (Book 2.6.) Saul was king in Israel between 1030 - 1010 BC.
Likewise Mempricius was succeeded by his son, Ebraucus.
Ebraucus reigned for 39 years, and we are told that his reign corresponded roughly in time with that of David of Israel (Book 2.7.) Again, we know that David ruled from 1010 - 970 BC.
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 Ebraucus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ebraucus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
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Except for Brutus Greenshield, all of Ebraucus's sons, led by Assaracus, went to Germany, creating a kingdom there.
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 History of the Early British Kings
Then, in the twentieth year of his reign, in about 996 BC, he was separated from his companions in a hunting party and was eaten by wolves.
He was succeeded by Ebraucus (Welsh Efrawc) who reigned for the next thirty-nine years from ca 996-957 BC.
In an eventful and fondly remembered reign, Ebraucus sacked Gaul and founded the city named after him, Kaerbrauc, which the later Romans were to Latinize as Eboracum, present-day York.
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 Encyclopedia of the Celts : Cabal - Cynon
They in turn fell at the hands of three of Arthur's knights and, afterwards, the duke's daughter took charge of it.
With regard to its origin, Geoffrey said that Ebraucus, King of Britain, founded the Castle of Mount Agned which later became known as the Castle of Maidens.
As to its location, it may have been identified with Edinburgh which, in the Middle Ages, was known as Castellum (or Castra) Puellarum, but some of the tales place it in the vicinity of Gloucester.
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This was called the earliest "Scottish" poem when published by Edinburgh University press c.
Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th cent.), in his "The History of the Kings of Britain" volume 2, recounts the story of King Ebraucus (founder of the city of Edinburgh), Maiden's Castle and the Dolorous Mountain.
The Lion Rampant and the Red Dragon - co-guardians of the Northern lands, are quite content to be harnessed to the same chariot when viewed in this manner.
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 GENUKI: A History of York, Yorkshire, 1823: Part 0.
This city is placed at the point of Junction, though independent of them all, of the three Ridings or districts into which the shire is subdivided.
Of king Ebraucus, it is recorded, that he also built Aclud, supposed by some to be Aldborough, and by others Carlisle.
In Domesday book, York is called, Civitas Eborum, and Eurwic.
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 Chapter George Barnwell <i>to</i> Geryoneo of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook
The name was changed according to fable) in compliment to Germana, sister of Julius Cæsar, and wife of Salvius Brabon duke of Brabant.—Jehan de Maire: Illustrations de Gaule, iii.
Geoffrey of Monmouth says that Ebraucus, one of the descendants of Brute king of Britain, had twenty sons, all of whom, except the eldest, settled in Tongres, which was then called Germany, because it was the land of the germans or brothers.
Sganarelle asks him if he would advise his marrying.
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