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  Loegria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The three main divisions of the island of Britain, according to Geoffrey, are all derived from the names of the sons of Brutus: LOEGRIA, familiar as the Logres of Arthurian romance, is named for Locrinus, the eldest.
Loegria itself was placed under the Metropolitan of London, together with Cornwall.
The tyrant Gormund is responsible for the destruction of the monasteries of Loegria:
faculty.arts.ubc.ca /sechard/hrb_loeg.htm   (565 words)

  
 THE BRITISH CHRONICLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
In vengeance, Gwendolen roused up her father's kingdom of Cornwall against Locrinus and Locrinus was killed in the ensuing battle.
As now undisputed ruler of Loegria, Gwendolen gave the order to execute by drowning Estrildis, and her daughter Habren, born of Locrinus' adultery.
Gwendolen ruled Loegria for a further 15 years, retiring eventually to her native Cornwall, where she died.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /nation05.htm   (5794 words)

  
 History of the Early British Kings
Amongst the spoils that Brutus had taken from Greece was Ignoge, the daughter of Pandrasus, whom he wedded and who was to bear him three sons, Locrinus, Kamber and Albanactus.
Estrildis and her daughter Habren were drowned on Gwendolen's orders, and Gwendolen herself went on to rule Loegria for the next fifteen years.
The outcome of the civil war was decided by a final conflict between five kings altogether, and from it all, in ca 440 BC, emerged Pinner, the king of Loegria.
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 Rebells Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Tsetse sat horrified as the beautiful young woman with her wonderful body faded into the form of the naked octogenarian man. In that time Tsetse came to himself and thrust the old man from his lap, but instead of falling to the floor Folosius hung in mid air before the knight.
So a bark was prepared and soon set sail for Loegria holding Tsetse and those that seemed proper to go with him.
It was then that Arthur, King of Loegria, Britain, Wales, and France declared single combat by champions, and that the victor would take that which was destined to be.
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 XXII. Sir Agrivain’s Treason. King Arthur and His Knights. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
As soon as Sir Galahad was buried Sir Perceval retired to a hermitage out of the city, and took a religious clothing; and Sir Bohort was always with him, but did not change his secular clothing, because he purposed to return to the realm of Loegria.
Then Sir Bohort armed himself and departed from Sarras, and entered into a ship, and sailed to the kingdom of Loegria, and in due time arrived safe at Camelot, where the king was.
Then was there great joy made of him in the whole court, for they feared he had been dead.
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 Sabrina, The Class Goddess of Amherst College -- Chapter 1
It was a joyous place, this land of the Britons, and the Huns had no thought of care for the morrow.
Meanwhile the defeated Albanactus had secured the aid of his brother, King Locrinus of Loegria.
The two brothers and their armies fell upon the Huns in the midst of their revels, and, killing Hymyr, took his followers captive.
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 MDO - Network - 01/26/2000
From Vther Pendragon: Networkia, it is I hailing to thee from my humble and war-torn land of Loegria, and it saddens me that I must send correspondence again so soon, Net: No big whup.
Eliot Lippe, I shall smite ye like I have smitten down the kings of Loegria, Albany, Cornwall and Kamber, and made their kingdoms mine own.
Postscript: O Net, it will be a sad day in Loegria if I find ye have been in on this most unworthy show of perversity, but I must know!
www.mndaily.com /daily/2000/01/26/backtalk/stnet   (710 words)

  
 House Shadow Drake - Beli Mawr
A summary of the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Welsh Chronicles shows that there was a century long civil war between five kings and that Pinner, king of Loegria arose as the victor around 440 BC.
Pinner was slain in battle by Dunvallo Molmtius in 430 BC.
Belinus the Great, the eldest son of Dunvallo, succeeded him and possessed the areas of Loegria, Cambria, and Cornwall from 380-374 BC while his younger brother Brennius ruled Albany and Northumbria.
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 Kambria
As a result Rudaucus, King of Kambria, and Staterius, King of Albany, met to make an alliance with each other....
he handed over a considerable part of it, called Loegria, to the Saxons, whose treason had been the cause of his landing.
Such Britons as remained sought refuge in the western parts of the kingdom: that is, in Cornwall and Wales.
faculty.arts.ubc.ca /sechard/hrb_kam.htm   (1409 words)

  
 The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 16th Century: Topic 4: Texts and Contexts
At the end of his life he divided the island of Britain among his three sons, Locrine, Camber, and Albanact, whose realms were thereafter known as Loegria (England), Cambria (Wales), and Albania (Scotland).
On a mount triangular, as the island of Britain itself is described to be, we seat in the supreme place, under the shape of a fair and beautiful nymph, Britannia herself, accosted with
Britannia speaking to Brute her conqueror (who is seated somewhat lower, in the habit of an adventurous, warlike Trojan), tells him that she had still continued her name of Albion,
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 Mitakuye Oyasin
His kingdom was known for a long time by his name Loegria and even today the Welsh call England Loegre.
Gwendolen, the daughter of Cornieus, married Loctrinus as she had pledged, but on the death of her father, Loctrinus deserted her in favour of Estrildis.
As now undisputed ruler of Loegria, Gwendolen gave the order to execute by drowning Estrildis, and her daughter Habren, born of the adultery.
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 Marcus Antonius to Maite - tobn04 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Claudiud agreed and ordered a town to be built wich should be called Kaerglou or Gloucester.
Down to our own day (abt 1100) it retains its site on the bank of the Severn, between Wales and Loegria.
Some, however, say that it took its name from Duke Gloius, whom Claudius fathered in that city and to whom he granted control of the duchy of the Welsh after Arvirargus.
www.bradleyfoundation.org /Maite/marcus/tobn04.htm   (200 words)

  
 Geoffrey's History of the Kings of Britain B11C10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
But to return to the history; when the inhuman tyrant, with many thousands of his Africans, had made a devastation almost over the whole island, he yielded up the greater part of it, called Loegria, to the Saxons, whose villainy had been the occasion of his arrival.
Therefore the remainder of the Britons retired into the western parts of the kingdom, that is, Cornwall and Wales; from whence they continually made frequent and fierce irruptions upon the enemy.
Many more went over in a great fleet into Armorican Britain; so that the whole church of the two provinces, Loegria and Northumberland, had its convents destroyed.
www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/hrb/giles_hrb_b11c10.htm   (153 words)

  
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But he in the end by Humber King of the Hunns, who with a Fleet invaded that Land, was slain in fight, and his People driven back into Loegria.
At length Dunwallo Molmutius the Son of Cornwal, one of the foresaid five, excelling in Valour, and goodliness of Person, after his Father's decease, found means to reduce again the whole Island into a Monarchy; subduing the rest at Opportunities.
First, Ymner King of Loegria, whom he slew; then Rudaucus of Cambria, Staterius of Albania, confederate together.
www.humanities.ualberta.ca /emls/iemls/work/etexts/histbrit.txt   (15641 words)

  
 The Dream of Rhonabwy
Then Madawc offered him to become Master of the Household and to have horses, and arms, and honour, and to fare like as himself.
And Iorwerth made an inroad into Loegria, slaying the inhabitants, and burning houses, and carrying away prisoners.
And Madawc took counsel with the men of Powys, and they determined to place an hundred men in each of the three Commots of Powys to seek for him.
www.druidry.org /obod/lore/texts/rhonabwy.html   (4043 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of History of Anglo-Saxons, by Sir Francis Palgrave.
Cambria, bounded by the Severn and the Wye; Loegria, south of the Humber, Albania to the north.—Map I. The boundaries of Albania were afterwards contracted to the country north of the firths.
In this manner were formed the states of the so-called Heptarchy, an erroneous term, but one which has become so familiar by usage, that there is some difficulty in discarding it from history.
The Romanized Britons of Loegria appear to have united more readily to their invaders.
pge.rastko.net /dirs/pge/pge05/100168/e100168.html   (16800 words)

  
 The Description of Wales - CHAPTER VII
BOOK II rigin of the names Cambria and Wales.
To his eldest son, Locrinus, he gave that part of the island which lies between the rivers Humber and Severn, and which from him was called Loegria.
To his second son, Albanactus, he gave the lands beyond the Humber, which took from him the name of Albania.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/geo/travel/Wales/chap9.html   (257 words)

  
 Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Hitherto the island had been known as Albion, after the Giants’ first king, but Brutus renamed it after himself.
Brutus’ three sons (Locrinus, Camber, and Albanactus) gave their names to the three main divisions of the island - Loegria, Cambria, and Albany (known today as England, Wales, and Scotland respectively).
In addition, the term Northumbria originally referred to all Britain north of the Humber, including Scotland, whilst Southumbria was all of southern Britain, including Wales.
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 Bulfinch's Mythology, Age of Chivalry, Part I, Chapter 16: The End of the Quest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
And as soon as he was buried Sir Perceval yielded him to an hermitage out of the city, and took a religious clothing; and Sir Bohort was always with him, but never changed he his secular clothing, for that he purposed to go again into the realm of Loegria.
Thus a year and two months lived Sir Perceval in the hermitage a full holy life, and then he passed out of this world.
And when Sir Bohort saw that he was in so far countries as in the parts of Babylon, he departed from Sarras, and armed him, and came to the sea, and entered into a ship, and so it befell him in good adventure he came into the realm of Loegria.
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 Chapter Lodbrog <i>to</i> Longevity of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook
Lodowick, the name assumed by the duke of Vienna, when he retired for a while from State affairs, and dressed as a friar, to watch the carrying out of a law recently enforced against prostitution.—Shakespeare: Measure for Measure (1603).
Loegria, England, the kingdom of Logris or Locrine, eldest son of Brute the mythical king of Britain.
Thus Cambria [Wales] to her right that would herself restore,
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IVOR (EVORCUS; EBORCUS) (IOVIR), son of # 63A, LLUDD II; moved capital to York upon his expulsion by the Cymric king, HUU "GADARN", after which the Albanese Kingdom of Loegria was confined to Northern England; while the Cymric Kings reigned over Southern England; and the Cornish kings [from about 500BC] reigned over South-West Britain.
AEDD "MAWR" ["THE GREAT"], King of Loegria from 56BC, Brehin [High-King], or, “King of Britain” from 43BC; conquered the Cymric Kingdom of Southern England in 43BC
note: on his demise Loegria [Northern England] was divided into thirds among his three sons, who were:
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 KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS:Chapter XV. Round Table (Online Book Title: The Age of Chivalry)
He at last resolved to go disguised into
the kingdom of Loegria, attack Tristram by stealth, and put him to
He took with him two knights, brought up in his court, who
www.readbookonline.net /read/9/1259   (1258 words)

  
 Katharina Abt
Under rather curious circumstances, too--but I won't anticipate; let us begin with the beginning of the adventure of the Queen of Spades.You will remember that there was a mislaid letter whose possession had become a matter of supreme importance to a certain great person Katharina5Abt in Russia.
This Katharina6Abt ceremony being ended, Tristram received the congratulations of all his companions.Sir Launcelot and Guenever took the occasion to speak to him of the fair Isoude, and to express their wish that some happy chance might bring her to the kingdom of Loegria.
Our adventurer having seen this unfortunate beau safely housed, returned
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