She makes no appearance in Bede's work, the Historia Brittonum, the Mabinogion or Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.

Geoffrey Chaucer makes reference to her in his work Troilus and Criseyde

The town also has strong literary associations, as Geoffrey of Monmouth makes Caerleon one of the most important cities in Britain in his Historia Regum Britanniæ, and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote Idylls of the King while staying there.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, the first author to write at length of King Arthur, makes Caerleon one of the most important cities in Britain in his Historia Regum Britanniæ.

Geoffrey makes Arthur's capital Caerleon and even Sir Thomas Malory has Arthur re-crowned there.

Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales makes reference to Hugh of Lincoln in " The Prioress's Tale ".

* Geoffrey Chaucer makes two trips to France this year.

Geoffrey makes Kay the count of Anjou and Arthur's steward, an office he holds in most later literature.

Geoffrey makes Aurelius Conanus the nephew to the previous king Constantine, whom he kills after a reign of only three years.

Though the emblematist Geoffrey Whitney confines the story to four lines, he adds two more of personal application: ' So thou, that hunt ' st for that thou longe hast mist ,/ Still makes thy boast, thou maist if that thou list.

Charles Elton makes a strong point to attribute his interest of scientific natural history to his brother Geoffrey in many of his writings.

An ancient tale, the legend of Brutus, recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth, makes explicit reference to a distinct origin of the Cornish people.

Geoffrey Keating makes them both sons of Dui Temrach, and the Four Masters make them the sons of Dui's son Congal Coscarach.

Geoffrey Keating makes them both sons of Dui Temrach, and the Four Masters make them the sons of Dui's son Congal Coscarach.

Francis Brett Young wrote a long poem called The Ballad of St Kenelm, AD 821 and Geoffrey Hill makes direct mention of St Kenelm and Romsley, Worcestershire, in his book-length poem, The Triumph of Love.

Guided tours are operated by the lady of the house, who makes use of every opportunity to be unpleasant to her wheelchair-using husband Geoffrey, whom she blames for their present financial situation.

Geoffrey Chaucer makes reference to the Serjeants in the Canterbury Tales, writing:

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt ( Merlinus Caledonensis ), a North Brythonic prophet and madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of the Romano-British war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus to form the composite figure he called Merlin Ambrosius ().

After it had been rebuilt near Amesbury, Geoffrey further narrates how first Ambrosius Aurelianus, then Uther Pendragon, and finally Constantine III, were buried inside the " Giants ' Ring of Stonehenge ".

In many places in his Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey mixes British legend and his own imagination ; it is intriguing that he connects Ambrosius Aurelianus with this prehistoric monument as there is place-name evidence to connect Ambrosius with nearby Amesbury.

Geoffrey reports that Constantine and his wife were parents to Constans, Ambrosius Aurelianus, and Uther Pendragon.

Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote about the town, claiming that it had been fortified by Ambrosius Aurelianus, king of the Britons after his victory over the Saxon forces of Hengist ( Historia Regum Britanniae viii, 7 ), that the captive Saxon leader Hengist was hacked to pieces by Eldol outside the town walls, and was buried at " Hengist's Mound " in the town.

On hearing of this, Henry, although he had sworn to observe this will, had himself released from his oath by the pope, and hurriedly marched against his brother, from whom in the beginning of 1156 he succeeded in taking Chinon and Mirebeau ; and in July he forced Geoffrey to give up even his three fortresses in return for an annual pension.

Geoffrey and Katharine Clifton were based on Sir Robert Clayton East-Clayton, 9th Baronet of Marden, and 5th Baronet of Hall Place, Maidenhead, and his wife, Dorothy, both of whom were dead by the time the novel takes place.

She had three sons by Geoffrey of Anjou, the eldest of whom eventually became King Henry II of England.

Married firstly before 1244 Maurice IV, seigneur de Craon ( 1224 – 1250 ), by whom she had issue ; she married secondly, Geoffrey de Rancon.

It had been prophesied that a great dignity would come from Olc's line, so he offered the High King his daughter to sleep with that night, and Cormac was conceived ( Geoffrey Keating says that Achtan was Art's official mistress, to whom he had given a dowry of cattle ).

The original lord of the manor of Ickenham was Geoffrey de Mandeville, from whom it passed to William de Brock and then, in 1334, to John Charlton whose son John owned Swakeleys from 1350.

Organisations such as the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art have fostered students of theatre, film, and television several of whom have continued to international success, with actors like Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush having been associated with both institutions.

Geoffrey introduced the figure of Mordred ( whom he calls Modredus ) to the world beyond Wales, detailing that Arthur left Mordred in charge of his throne as he crossed the English Channel to wage war on Emperor Lucius of Rome.

When the Crusaders took Constantinople ( 1204 ), they found some Paulicians, whom the historian Geoffrey of Villehardouin calls Popelicans.

The United Kingdom's first ball bearing factory was established at New Street and Rectory Lane in Chelmsford in 1898 by cousins Geoffrey and Charles Barrett and bankrolled by American ball bearing machine manufacturer Ernst Gustav Hoffmann from whom the Company took its name.

In 1858 he decorated a cabinet with the Prioress's Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, his first direct illustration of the work of a poet whom he especially loved and who inspired him with endless subjects.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first part of his pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, the Trojan Brutus had three sons among whom ( having subdued Gogmagog ) he divided his lands after landing in Britain.

With no clear male heir ( the obvious choice, William Clito, the son of Henry's older brother, was not favoured by the King ; Henry had an abundance of other nephews and illegitimate children, of whom his favoured nephew Stephen of Blois and illegitimate son Robert of Gloucester particularly stood out, but for various reasons none were chosen ), Henry designated his daughter, Matilda, dowager Holy Roman Empress, as his heiress, marrying her to William's brother-in-law Geoffrey V of Anjou, and forcing his Barons to swear to uphold her rights ; but on his death, the Barons reneged on their oaths on the grounds of coercion, and chose Henry's nephew, Stephen of Blois, prompting a period of English history known as The Anarchy.

It is also shown that he is currently quite stuck on the study of poo, having read many books written by one Miss Felicity Beedle, whom he knows as " the poo lady ", and who has also written such books as Where's My Cow ?, The World of Poo, Melvin and the Enormous Boil, Geoffrey and the Magic Pillow Case and The Little Duckling Who Thought He Was an Elephant.

He assisted Sir Geoffrey Howe in persuading Mrs Thatcher to change the Government's policy on the Soviet Union, attended the Chequers meeting which decided to invite Soviet leaders to the United Kingdom, and was present at Chequers when Mrs Thatcher had her first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and decided that he was a Soviet leader with whom " she could do business ".

On 30 June 1798 he married Charlotte Margaret Hornby, daughter of Reverend Geoffrey Hornby, with whom he fathered future Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

The origin of the golden dragon standard is attributed to that of Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur of whom Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote:

Walter's election to York was supported by Richard's mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom a chronicler claimed hated Geoffrey as the product of one of her husband's affairs.

Geoffrey was a patron of scholarship, and employed a number of scholars throughout his life, one of whom, Honorius of Kent, Geoffrey appointed Archdeacon of Richmond.

Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley married Cecily Willoughby, granddaughter of Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk, by whom he had issue: Eleanor, Margaret, Jane ( Joan ), Catherine, Joyce, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Constancia, Alice and John ( John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley ), Edward, Thomas, William, Arthur, Geoffrey, and George.

They were: Geoffrey Plantagenet ( 1158 – 1186 ), son of Henry II of England ; Ranulph de Blondeville, Earl of Chester ( c. 1172 – 1232 ), the marriage with whom Constance treated as null on the ground of consanguinity ; and Guy de Thouars ( d. 1213 ), who survived his wife for twelve years.

Evelyn Stockard-Price ( Famke Janssen ), a spoiled trophy wife, is in a disintegrating marriage with Stephen Price ( Geoffrey Rush ) (" Price ", as well as Rush's appearance, is a nod to actor Vincent Price, who played the same character " Frederick Loren " in the original film ), an amusement park mogul with a wicked sense of humor, each of whom would gladly kill the other.