06-14-2009, 08:57 AM
I don't trust the Breton genealogies. They are quite late and possibly less reliable than welsh genealogies. Part of the kings are known from other sources, but for most of them it's only guessing. I admit it's a bit different for the Marcellus/Theodoric mentions as dynastic feuds between the Bretons are also recorded by Gregorius of Tours.
Yet I do believe in a kind of "south-western" confederation, or at least alliance, between the Silures, the Demetae, the Dumnonii, the Durotriges and the Letavi (continental Britons). There were contacts between them before the Roman conquest. They shared a similar culture, with their latin-speaking elite living in hillforts or promontory forts, they both had contacts with the East as shown by the presence of A and B ware, contacts mostly unknown in the east of Britain at this stage.
Yet I do believe in a kind of "south-western" confederation, or at least alliance, between the Silures, the Demetae, the Dumnonii, the Durotriges and the Letavi (continental Britons). There were contacts between them before the Roman conquest. They shared a similar culture, with their latin-speaking elite living in hillforts or promontory forts, they both had contacts with the East as shown by the presence of A and B ware, contacts mostly unknown in the east of Britain at this stage.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert