" Some were for setting up Aurelius Ambrosius ; others Uther Pendragon ; others again some other persons of the royal family.

According to Geoffrey, Igraine also bore a daughter Anna ( referred to as Morgause in other works ) to Uther Pendragon, this Anna later becoming the mother of Gawain and Mordred.

Besieging Dimilioc, Uther tells his friend Ulfin how he loves Igraine, but Ulfin replies that it would be impossible to take Tintagel, for " it is right by the sea, and surrounded by the sea on all sides ; and there is no other way into it, except that provided by a narrow rocky passage -- and there, three armed warriors could forbid all entry, even if you took up your stand with the whole of Britain behind you.

Some other monarchs, such as King Arthur, Uther Pendragon, and Vortigern, have been termed " High King of Britain " in some accounts.

He, like the kings of several other lands, initially opposes Arthur ’ s ascendance to the throne after Uther ’ s death.

In Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Aurelianus ( most often referred to as " Aurelius ") figures prominently, along with his brother Uther, in the second book of the series, Merlin.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

According to the Grail cycle, it was Uther's older brother ( elsewhere called Ambrosius Aurelianus ) who saw the comet and received the name " Pendragon ", Uther taking his epithet after his death.

With Aurelius on the throne, Uther leads his brother in arms to Ireland to help Merlin bring the stones of Stonehenge from there to Britain.

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon, Uther is the nephew of Aurelianus instead of his brother ; while Aurelianus is the son of a Roman Emperor, Uther has no Roman blood.

* Uther, brother of Aurelius and father of King Arthur, is called Uther Pendragon because he was inspired by a dragon-shaped comet ( In the Vulgate, he took the name from his brother )

In the prose version of Robert de Boron's Merlin, the name of Uther's elder brother Ambrosius is given as " Pendragon ", while Uter ( Uther ) changes his name after his brother's death to " Uterpendragon ".

The use of " Pendragon " to refer to Arthur, rather than to Uther or his brother, is of much more recent vintage.

* King Arthur is the son of Igraine and Uther and half brother to Morgaine.

The British are flush with a recent victory over the invading Saxons — though they are troubled by the fact that the king's brother Uther is missing.

After the Romans leave, Vortigern comes to power, and invites the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to fight for him as mercenaries, but they rise against him, and Britain remains in a state of war under Aurelius Ambrosius and his brother Uther Pendragon, assisted by the wizard Merlin.

The legend claims Constans, older brother to Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon, spent his early life studying at a monastery.

After the Romans leave, Vortigern comes to power, and invites the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to fight for him as mercenaries, but they rise against him, and Britain remains in a state of war under Aurelius Ambrosius and his brother Uther Pendragon, assisted by the wizard Merlin.

Geoffrey makes Aurelianus ( whom he calls Aurelius Ambrosius ) a king of Britain, an older brother of Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, thus relating Aurelianus and Arthur.

His father is Madoc, son of Uther Pendragon, an obscure brother of Arthur's mentioned a very few times in Welsh literature.

* Madoc ap Uthyr, son of Uther Pendragon, father of Eliwlod and brother of King Arthur

Versions of how Arthur withdrew the sword from the stone vary, from his foster brother needing a new sword and sending him to fetch one, to being in the midst of an actual war in which he snatches up the blade nearest him ; in all of them the blade is universally recognized as the one enchanted by Merlin, and he is revealed to be Uther Pendragon's rightful heir and the proper king of Britain.

The new king, Aurelius ' brother Uther Pendragon, leads his armies against the Saxons and routs them in a surprise night attack.

Also exiled in Brittany is Uther, Ambrosius's brother, heir and supporter.

In this version, Merlin's father is Aurelius Ambrosius, the Roman war leader, Uther Pendragon's brother, making Merlin Arthur's cousin.

Lawhead alters the standard Arthurian story somewhat, in that he has Aurelius marry Igraine and become the true father of King Arthur ( Uther does marry his brother's widow, though ).

After Vortigern's alliance with the Saxons under Hengist goes disastrously wrong, Aurelius and Uther, now adults, return.

Later, while Aurelius is ill, Uther leads his army against Vortigern's son Paschent and his Saxon allies.

Uther wins the battle and takes the epithet " Pendragon ", and returns to find that Aurelius has been poisoned by an assassin.

Aurelius and Uther were assigned to education under Guidelium.

It contains a comic depiction of the birth of the fully grown Merlin to a country girl, and also features figures from Arthurian legend, including Uther Pendragon, Vortigern, and Aurelius Ambrosius.

In the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth's list of kings of the Britons, which was partially based on the chronology found in the Historia Brittonum, placed Arthur and Uther Pendragon in sequence between Aurelius Ambrosius and a Breton ruler named Constantinus ( often erroneously identified with Constantine III ), all of them Romano-British rulers placed in the Sub-Roman period of the 5th to 6th century.

When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

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 ".

* Stonehenge is said to be the burial place of Ambrosius Aurelianus and Uther Pendragon.

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

* Uther Pendragon is the nephew and War Duke of the dead High King Ambrosius and an ambitious warlord who falls in love with Igraine.

Geoffrey also names him as one of three sons of Constantine III, along with Constans II and Uther Pendragon.

His sister's son is Uther Pendragon, but Uther is described as not having any Roman blood.

He is poisoned soon after becoming High King of Britain, and Uther succeeds him.

In this account, the act could not be performed except by " the true king ," meaning the divinely appointed king or true heir of Uther Pendragon.

In chapter 1 of book 8 of Historia Regum Britanniae, Merlin prophecies to Vortigern ( who fled to Cambria during the Saxon onslaught ) that Hengist will be killed and that Uther Pendragon will be crowned.

Many elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the wizard Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann and final rest in Avalon.

They include " Kadeir Teyrnon " (" The Chair of the Prince "), which refers to " Arthur the Blessed ", " Preiddeu Annwn " (" The Spoils of Annwn "), which recounts an expedition of Arthur to the Otherworld, and " Marwnat vthyr pen " (" The Elegy of Uther Pen "), which refers to Arthur's valour and is suggestive of a father-son relationship for Arthur and Uther that pre-dates Geoffrey of Monmouth.

He incorporates Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, his magician advisor Merlin, and the story of Arthur's conception, in which Uther, disguised as his enemy Gorlois by Merlin's magic, sleeps with Gorlois's wife Igerna at Tintagel, and she conceives Arthur.

" Finally, Geoffrey borrowed many of the names for Arthur's possessions, close family and companions from the pre-Galfridian Welsh tradition, including Kaius ( Cei ), Beduerus ( Bedwyr ), Guenhuuara ( Gwenhwyfar ), Uther ( Uthyr ) and perhaps also Caliburnus ( Caledfwlch ), the latter becoming Excalibur in subsequent Arthurian tales.

In the second, Merlin's magic enables Uther Pendragon to enter into Tintagel in disguise and father his son Arthur with his enemy's wife, Igraine.

A manuscript found in Bath from the 1420s simply records a " Merlyn " as having helped Uther Pendragon with his " sotelness " or subtleness, presumably but not necessarily magic.

This table, here made for Arthur's father Uther Pendragon rather than Arthur himself, has twelve seats and one empty place to mark the betrayal of Judas.

The king sent Merlin, Uther Pendragon ( Arthur's father ), and 15, 000 knights, to remove it from Ireland, where it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus by the Giants.

Arthas first exhumes the remains of Kel ' Thuzad, contains it in a magic urn of the ashes of his father, which was protected by Uther the Lightbringer, head paladin of The Order of the Silver Hand as well as Arthas ' former mentor and close friend.

Merlin disguised Uther Pendragon as Gorlois so that Uther could enter Tintagol and know Igraine, who thought him her husband.

Thus Uther fathered King Arthur on her.

According to legend, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall under King Uther Pendragon, rebelled against the latter's rule when the king became obsessed with Gorlois ' wife Igraine.