How a Cleric, Two Poets, and a Prisoner Saved King Arthur

“At the battle of Camlann, Arthur and Medraut fell.” Geoffrey of Monmouth, Cleric – 1130 A.D. Written references to Arthur, including the quote above from the Annales Cambriae (c. 950 A.D.), predate Geoffrey of Monmouth, but Geoffrey’s History of the Kings of Britain secured Arthur’s place in history. Arthur – and the idea of Arthur [...]