Monmouth's links with Henry are commemorated in the naming of the main town square, Agincourt Square, and in the statue of Henry on the front of the Shire Hall.

* Old photos and info on Monmouth's railway history

Gwalchmei was a traditional hero of Welsh legend whose popularity greatly increased after foreign versions, particularly those derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, became known in Wales.

Uther is best known from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( 1136 ) where he is the youngest son of King of Britannia Constantine II.

Monmouth's athletic teams are known as the Hawks.

His story is known in two major versions, which appear in the Welsh text known as The Dream of Maxen Wledic, and in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and the Welsh tale known as The Dream of Macsen Wledig.

Cador ( Latin: Cadorius ) was a legendary Duke of Cornwall, known chiefly through Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and previous manuscript sources such as the Life of Carantoc.

When Charles's illegitimate son Monmouth assembled an invasion force at Amsterdam, and sailed for Britain, William informed James of Monmouth's departure, and ordered English regiments in the Low Countries to return to Britain.

It was Ferguson who drew up Monmouth's proclamation, and he who was most in favour of Monmouth being crowned King.

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth | Monmouth's execution on Tower Hill, 15 July 1685 ( O. S ).

There were some disagreements between Shaftesbury and Monmouth: for example, Shaftesbury was critical of Monmouth's decision to crush a rebellion by Scottish Covenanters quickly at the Battle of Bothwell Brig in June 1679, arguing that the rebellion should have been drawn out to force Charles II to recall parliament.

Hickes, who was a member of Monmouth's defeated army, brought with him Richard Nelthorpe, another supporter of Monmouth and under sentence of outlawry.

The curious thing about this king is that the Welsh chronicles, which parallel most of Monmouth's book, does not mention this king by name although Monmouth uses Latin versions of Welsh names so he could be referring to Dynod, duke of Cornwall or Anwn Dynod, Maximus ' own son.

He played a prominent part in the suppression of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, having been personally responsible ( according to John Evelyn ) for Monmouth's arrest, unarmed and bearded in a dry ditch covered with fern brakes.

* Fort Monmouth's Eatontown Gardens, 600 family housing units in fifty two buildings, constructed 1953-1954, was renamed for Congressman James J. Howard in recognition of his long-time support for Fort Monmouth and his contributions in Congress to the welfare of soldiers and the Army.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136 ) it was founded by the exiled Trojan Brutus, who called it Troia Nova (" New Troy "), which gradually corrupted to Trinovantum.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, the realm was named after the legendary king Locrinus, the oldest son of Brutus of Troy.

The night we first met, at one of Mrs. Monmouth's giant parties, he was wearing a brown cashmere jacket with silver buttons and a soft pink Viyella shirt ; ;

For Chrétien, Arthur's chief court was in Caerleon in Wales ; this was the king's primary base in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and subsequent literature.

Although Malory's English version of the great French romances was popular, there were increasing attacks upon the truthfulness of the historical framework of the Arthurian romances — established since Geoffrey of Monmouth's time — and thus the legitimacy of the whole Matter of Britain.

Buchanan was not as credulous as many, and he did not include the tale of MacAlpin's treason, a story from Giraldus Cambrensis, who reused a tale of Saxon treachery at a feast in Geoffrey of Monmouth's inventive Historia Regum Britanniae.

* Lud son of Heli, a legendary British king who in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae founded London and was buried at Ludgate

At the time of his birth, the king was his cousin Richard II, and Henry was not in the direct line to succeed to the throne, so Henry of Monmouth's date of birth was not officially documented.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( 1136 ), Constantius was sent to Britain by the Senate after Asclepiodotus, here a British king, was overthrown by Coel of Colchester.

Once attributed to Saint Tysilio ( died 640 ), this Chronicle of the Kings of Britain was written c. 1500 as an amalagam of earlier versions of the Brut y Brenhinedd, a derivative of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudohistorical account Historia Regum Britanniae (" The History of the Kings of Britain ") as the place where King Arthur's sword Excalibur ( Caliburnus ) was forged and later where Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann.

Monmouth's status as the last dry town in Oregon was ended by a popular vote in the November 2002 election.

To face Monmouth's rebels Churchill was given command of the regular foot in the King's army, but the honour of leading the campaign passed to the limited, yet highly loyal, Earl of Feversham.

He was remembered as a King of the Britons in the Welsh chronicles and Geoffrey of Monmouth's highly popular and legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, where he comes to power following Gracianus Municeps ' reign, which had ended with his assassination.

Finally, in 2012, a DNA test conducted on Monmouth's descendant, the duke of Buccleuch, showed that he shared the same Y-chromosome ( inherited from father-to-son ) as a distant Stewart cousin, providing strong evidence that Charles II was Monmouth's biological father after all.

On 6 July 1685 the two armies met at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last clear-cut pitched battle on open ground between two military forces fought on English soil: Monmouth's makeshift force could not compete with the regular army, and was soundly defeated.

Thomas's son, Colonel Samuel Venner led the Duke of Monmouth's cavalry and was shot and wounded by a sniper in Bridport, but survived until 1712.

An even older British connection to Gog and Magog appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential 12th century Historia Regum Britanniae, which states that Goemagot was a giant slain by the eponymous Cornish hero Corin or Corineus.

There had been rumours that Charles had married Monmouth's mother, Lucy Walter, but no evidence was forthcoming, and Charles always said that he only had one wife, Catherine of Braganza.

Dryden did not base his libretto on standard versions of Arthurian myth, although he was familiar with such books as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

William Fuller who held office as Monmouth's constable for over twenty years in the early to mid 19th century, also served as Inspector of Nuisances, Chief of the Fire Brigade, Inspector of Weights and Measures, Clerk of the Market, and Conservator of the Wye.

The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brut y Brenhinedd, associate him with Ynys Afallach, which is substituted as the Welsh name for Geoffrey's Insula Avalonsis ( Island of Avalon ), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall " apple tree " ( modern Welsh afal " apple ", afalllen " apple tree " cf.

The question of the dates of the tales in the Mabinogion is important, because if they can be shown to have been written before Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and the romances of Chrétien de Troyes then some of the tales, especially those dealing with Arthur, would provide important evidence for the development of Arthurian legend.

The earliest full account of Mordred is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, where he, for the first time in literature, plays the role of traitor to Arthur.

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko can be read as an allegory for the rebellion, with the titular slave playing Monmouth's role.

Other sources and influences include Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, The Mirror for Magistrates, William Warner's Albion's England, and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( which includes a fairly extensive account of Cadwallon's life but is largely legendary — for example, Geoffrey has Cadwallon surviving until after the Battle of the Winwaed in 654 or 655 ), Cadwallon went to Ireland and then to the island of Guernsey.

King James II approved Kirke's commission in 1685, but Kirke came under harsh criticism for his role in putting down Monmouth's Rebellion, and his commission was withdrawn.

Like many of the characters reported by Geoffrey, Camber has no historical basis but is the product of Geoffrey of Monmouth's imagination, invented largely for political ends within the contemporary Anglo-Norman world.

The first part of the manuscript contains prose, including the Mabinogion, for which this is one of the manuscript sources ( the other principal source being the White book of Rhydderch ), other tales, historical texts ( including a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ), and various other texts including a series of Triads.

It is unlikely that Amphibalus was the genuine name of the priest-it is likely to be Geoffrey of Monmouth's misunderstanding of the Latin word used for the cloak, amphibalus, passed to Alban.

Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th Century classically inspired Historia Regum Britanniae, for example, fulfilled this function for Britain.

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, he overthrows his father and reigns as King of Britain for a brief period before his death restores Vortigern to power.

The Rogers family owned it for a long period of time, and it was later purchased by Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet, who took part in crushing Monmouth's rebellion in 1685.

Because of the tendency of historians to trust the work of their predecessors, Geoffrey of Monmouth's semi-fictional 12th-Century Historia Regum Britanniae remained influential for centuries, often used by writers who were unaware that his work was the source.

Educated at St John's College, Oxford, Hugh Speke joined the Green Ribbon Club, and in 1683 he was put in prison for asserting that Arthur Capell, Earl of Essex, another of Monmouth's supporters, had been murdered by the friends of James, Duke of York.

He was tried and sentenced to pay a fine, but he refused to find the money, and remained in prison for three years, being in captivity during Monmouth's rebellion, in consequence of which his brother Charles was hanged at Ilminster.

His Norman-era " Life " is a hagiography of importance to the case for the historicity of Arthur as one of seven saints ' lives that mention Arthur independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.