The British nobles in an attempt to prevent the total dissolution of the
state and to end the civil war. gathered in an assembly and agreed on a
compromise whereby Godrich. the Earl (Duke/King) of
Cornwall, would reign as regent and hold the Kingdom of Britain in trust for
the English heiress. Goldborough. the daughter of the late Anglican
heir, Cymen. and his wife. Adela. the Saxon heiress, only child and daughter
of England’s first Bretwalda. Aella of Sussex Thus, preserving the fiction of
centralized rule which was accepted only because the alternative
was unthinkable
. Prince-Regent. Earl (Duke/King) of Cornwall, reigned as regent of
Britain in the absence of a national-kmg during the interregnum that followed
the murder of the boy-king, Huai, and his mother. Queen Lonle (Lenore,
Lunette] There were civil wars throughout Britain dunng his regency The
episode of Havelock “The Dane* takes place dunng the regency of Earl
Godrich X. CADROD (CATRAUT), the Arthunan heir, established his headquarters
at a castle (site unsure] called “CALCHVYNYDD” (‘hill of chalk or lime”],
which name came to be his epithet, somewhere in the Bntish midlands between
the Thames and the Trent rivers. He fights the Cerdicite heir Cynnc “of
Wessex” X. CYNRIC (CUNORIX). the Cerdicite heir, the other claimant to the
Bntish throne, held sway south of the Thames in Wessex with his headquarters
at Winchester One of the surviving ex-tnumvirs. Riwal of Dumnoma
(Devonshire), meanwhile, was expelled from Bntam by Caradoc ‘Strong-Arm”.
Count of the Saxon Shore, in another regional-war. and fled to Armohca
(Bnttany] where he established himself at St. Bneoc. circa 552 Riwal was
killed fighting Cynvawr II of Cornwall, circa 555. and his widow married King
Cynvawr Prmce ludwal of Domnonee (son of Riwal. the ex-thumvir] fled his
murderous step-father (Cynvawr II of ComwaH-Brittany] and found refuge at the
court of King Childebert I of France (534-558), in 558. Prince ludwal of
Domnonee retook his throne Cynvawr II withdrew back to Cornwall, area 558,
and. circa 560. was murdered along with his wife (name] and son (St. Tremeur]
St Brieoc is attacked by King Childebert of France, and King Canao II leads
the resistance Meantime, the civil war between the House of Arthur and the
House of Cerdic continued to rage Cynnc repulsed Cadrod’s offensive at Old
Sarum (Salisbury] in 552. and slew him in battle at Bart>ury Castle, near
Swindon. Wiltshire, in 556 King Erp (Urban) of Gwent was killed in the battle
(fighting for the Arthurian heir]; and his kingdom was divided in halves, called
Gwent and Ergyng Cadrod ‘Calchvynydd” was survived by seven sons and three
daughters His eldest son. Cyndywyn. was murdered following
his fathers death in battle Another son. Cyndeym “Wledic*. rallied his father
s old supporters and earned on the struggle He slew Cynrtc in battle in 560
and set himself up as an anti-king although technically the throne was vacant
while the country was governed by Godhch. the Earl of Cornwall, who
officially reigned as regent of Bntain in the absence of a legitimate
‘national” king Cynric was survived by three sons Coelm (Ceawim). Cutha. and
Cwichelm. of whom the eldest Ceawlin (Coelin) succeeded to the
Wessex kingdom The name Ceawlin (Coelin) is Celtic, but the names of his
brothers, possibly half-brothers, have a Saxon favor to them Their mother may
have been a Saxon princess; or perhaps by this time the influence of Saxon
culture was beginning to show itself in the Wessex royal house 560-565 9.
HAVELOK ‘THE DANE”, barbarian-king. not usually numbered in the regnal-lists.
however, remembered in tradition, legend, and folklore, reigned for three years
as King of Bntain. or England. 560-562 The legend of Havelock “The Dane’
begins when he was a boy and tells us that a fisherman was ordered by
Denmark’s usurper-kmg to murder the true heir to the Danish throne. Havelock,
then a youth about age eleven, but instead the fisherman allowed the young
pnnce to escape to England Later, when Havelock had come of age. he
found employment with an English ealdorman He soon became famous for his
prowess at sports, and
