Upper Palaeolithic deposits, including bones of Homo sapiens, have been found in local caves,[2] and artefacts dating from the Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age have been found at Mount Batten showing that it was one of the main trading ports of the country at that time.[3] An unidentified settlement named ‘TAMARI OSTIA’ (mouth/estuaries of the Tamar) is listed in Ptolemy’s Geographia and is presumed to be located in the area of the modern city.[4]
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
