Post by Patricia Gillcash to FB Group BHH, 7 March, 2024

Patricia Gillcash
9 March 2024

This Information was typed on a typewriter by Alan Wilson and given to Ross for publication before he passed away. Ross gave it to me to transcribe into a word document. I have not changed any content and have the originals. If there are any differentials in their book then either they changed after these documents. Please do not imply that I have taken information from mainstream or any other source......instead you can come up with your own proof or validation. Second post with additional details on King Arthur 1:- If St Ilid (Joseph of Arimathea) of Llanilid in Glamorgan existed, and if he later founded a church at Glastenic, then Glastenic existed. If St Elfan, brother of King Lleirwg, existed, and if after his embassy to Rome, he re-founded the same Glastenic, then Glastenic existed.
Again, as King Arthur the Black son of Magnus Maximus existed, then he may well be the "King Arthur" whom Caradoc of Llancarfan said was buried at Glastenic. The people being real, the place Glastenic must be real. These read from the top in the manner of Bible ancestral lists- e.g. Selif son of Cynan son of Brochwael son of••••• etc. etc. So the first name is the most recent, and then the last name at the bottom is the earliest ancestor named
This brings in the two mentions of the Abbey Church of Glastenic which survive in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. In the Parker Chronicle we find, under 688AD, “In this year Ina succeeded to the Kingdom of Wessex, and ruled 37 years; he built the monastery of G1astenic.”
Finally we arrive at a generally unnoticed entry in the Black Book of Carmarthen. This venerable Manuscript, now in the Harleian collection1 contains a number of ancient British Genaelogies. These 32 Lists of Kings and Princes were set down at the occasion of the marriage of Owen, the son of Howel Dda of Dyfed (then Pembrokeshire) to Arghafod. King List No. 4. traces a Prince Iudgual (Idwal) of around 800AD back to his ancestor:- Magnus Maximus, who was killed in 388AD. The earliest names at the bottom are:-COLUMN 1
Eidinet son of
Arthun son of
Maxim Gulc
tic qui occidit
Gratiancum regum
Romanorum.
COLUMN 2
Eidinet son of
Arthur I son of
Magnus the Legate (Wledig) the ruler who killed Gratian, the King of the Romans. After this assertion that Arthun-Annhun- Arthur etc (also Andragathius in Latin Roman Texts was son of Magnus Maximus, we get further detail)
King List No.26 actually locates Glastenic. It is a list which appears to concern rulers in the West Midlands area. Fourth from the top is one Moriutned the historical friend of Vortigern-Gwrtheyrn of around 450AD.
The first name however is accompanied by a short notice.
COLUMN 1 Morgan son of
Mormayl
Glast un um
Sunt Glastenic qui uenerunt
qu uocatur Loytcoyt. COLUMN 2 Morgan son of Mormayl. Is “Glast” a Welsh word name, or is it a Latin expression? If we recall that the Christian symbol was originally the Fish-Sign, a recognition marker, and that churches were originally “ships” – Nave – Navali etc. still preserved today, we may have an answer. The Roman "Class" indicated something that belonged to the Fleet, a term still used in Naval descriptions of classes of ships. Glas in Welsh can mean "blue" and also "verdant" or even "pale". Religious holy men of Druidic order wore Blue, and the term "Glast unum" may indicate the "(men of) Blue gathered together". What do we then make of -"Free independent Glastenic, which is venerated, the place which is called Lichfield?" There is no doubt that Caer Loyt¬Coyt is Lichfield. Therefore we should logically seek for Ilid and Elfan churches in the general area around Lichfield to the North of Birmingham. Other place names which as we will see, clearly pure Welsh in that area, will provide indicators. Around 1156AD Caradoc of Llancarfan wrote - presumably from older Manuscript records - that one of the King Arthur's was buried at Glastonbury. He gave details, which if added to other information in the Life of Gildas, give very precise locations. As the Abbey of Glastonbury in Somerset was not founded until 942AD (by King Edgar as his mortuary chapel) it follows that the place referred to by Caradoc of Llancarfan was obviously elsewhere.
MSS 3859 contain definitive information. List no. 25 Kings of the West Midlands:-
Ludnerth map Morgan
map Caatgur may be Gwrgan Mawr the father of Morgan,
Caradoc and Onbrawst
map Merguid
map Moriutned The friend of Vortigern
map Morant
map Botan
map Morgen
map Mormayl Glastonic = Glastonbury
Glast unum Cornish, Glaston = oaks
Sunt Glastenic qui uenerut Breton, Glaston = oaks
Qu uocator Loytcoyt Caer Loyt Coyt = LichfieldLudnerthLudnerth. It is a well-established fact that later Kings of the West Midlands region also shared a common naming pattern with names commencing with "M". As these Lists were drawn up around 920AD for the wedding of Owen son of Howell Dda, they would logically pre-date the founding of the Somerset Glastonbury. The statement is absolutely clear naming the Lichfield region as the location of Glastonbury. Glastennen in Welsh is "the scarlet oak, and Glaston in both Breton and Cornish means simply "oaks", so it is a place of oak trees and could be anywhere. It is nothing short of - incredible that none of the many thousands of Arthurian writers have ever mentioned this entry in the Harleian MSS 3859
Is “Loyt-Coyt” an expression resulting from "Lut-eus” - meaning" to
do with mud", and is not: "Coyt" a result of "Coi-tio" – meaning
"a coming together, meeting, assembling?” Are we not looking at a place name which describes an area of some form of wet-lands or in proximity to swamp or muddy river crossing?
There is such a region (Gray Wood) to the north and east of Lichfield. This makes a first and definite impression of possible accuracy in the records. Every other check made in researches concerning the Welsh Records was shown to be correct when properly analysed, and therefore it should be anticipated that this again is simply a true statement of fact.
The information which appears to have been misused and which caused the misdirection of enquiry appears in the "Vita Gilae" compiled by Caradoc of Llancarfan. This is believed to have been written before 1156AD. In Chapter X. Caradoc relates a history in which St Gildas travelled by ship and then proceeded (overland) to "Glastoniam", and the region was then ruled by one "Melvas”.
This we would state means that Gildas sailed up the navigable river Dee and arrived in an area ruled by the Princes who are listed in List No. 26 of the Black Book of Carmarthen. This location is made obvious by the statement which follows Gildas’ religious activities, which states very firmly that “Glastonia” is in the Urban Area of Vitre, and that Vitre is the first named place in St. Gildas famous sermon "De Excidio”. Vitreis Gildas’ Welsh-Latin for Viroconium, and Viroconium is commonly referred to as Uriconium or today Wroxeter.
As we see elsewhere there is good evidence for the conclusion that Viroconium-Wroxeter was the Roman capital of ancient Britain.
Viroconium is just West of Caer LoytCoyt or Lichfield. This, as we will see, makes even more sense as this story proceed.Caradoc relates how "Arturo tyranno" – Arthur the Teyrn = Monarch, came to the same area with innumerable followers, and apparently in a considerable temper. It sounds very like the powerful “Silures” King Arthur ap Meurig and the "Silures" army. Melvas had stolen or had designs upon "Guennuvar" the wife of Arthur, and war was imminent.
The nations about to be embroiled in this conflict are named as the "Cornubiae" - the Cornovii, and the "Dibneniae" - the Dubonnii. So we know that the conflict is between Arthur and the North Midlands and the North.
St. Gildas and the Abbot of "Glastoniae" intervened however, and a peace was patched up between Arthur and Melvas Arthur got his Queen back, and considerable donations were made to the Abbey in the area. The patron Saint is named as Mary. All this fits very well with King Arthur moving Northwards out of Morganwg-Essyllwg, and executing the brother of Gildas at Ruthin in a squabble over a woman. The stone on which Huail was beheaded is still in Ruthin Square. Gildas and Arthur later had a meeting of reconciliation at Llancarfan Abbey near Cardiff at 575AD.
Caradoc proceeds later to describe the antiquity of "Glastonia" which he names as "Ynisgutrin" - which is virtually certain to be Ynys Wyrdryn. Ynys Wyrdryn would mean "the cleared spot - of the spreading out" with the implication of a Missionary church spreading out. Ynys can mean an Island as in the sea, but also a cleared area on land with no necessary association with water whatsoever. The idea of a Missionary Church being established in a spreading out activity fits with the story of St. Ilid first establishing his church at Llan-Ilid in Glamorgan, and then moving North to Ynys Wrdryn. This is reinforced by the re-establishment of the Morganwg church by King Lleirwg around 160-170AD, and St Elfan his brother again going North to re-establish Glastenic
Everything points to Arthur I, son of Mascen Wledig, being the “King Arthur” who was associated with Glastonbury in the Midlands. Early Khumric tradition held that King Arthur fortified Lichfield and that he fought and killed a formidable enemy called Rhitta Gawr. Medieval Romances repeated this story calling Rhitta Gawr as “King Ryons”, and the place of the conflict with Rhitta Gawr and invader was in North Wales opposite Warwickshire and Lichfield. No one seems to noticed that an Irish invader names R-eueth was killed in this same area in 363AD, the era of King Arthur I, son of Mascen. Is not Reueth the same as Rhitta Gawr and “King Ryons”?The detail of all this will fill another volume. For the present purpose it is enough to illustrate the identification of the two “King Arthurs" and their clear locations and chronological eras. Everything in the names of King Gruffydd ap Cynan, in Gildas’ records, and in Caradoc of Llancarfan, points directly towards identifying King Arthur I, son of Mascen, the conqueror of Europe. The names of places, roads, features, and tribal clans, all identify the West Midlands. All that needs to be done is to cast out the monkish forgeries of 1191AD, where ignorance of correct history caused the Somerset Abbot Henry and his monks to use records identifying King Arthur I to create a fake "discovery" of his descendant. King Arthur II, who was born some 150 years later than him. Politics rather than truth have prevailed. Edward I of England made much use of the false "discovery" by claiming that as King Arthur was English and ruled all Britain, so he as King of England was entitled to rule all Britain. This was his proclaimed justification for attacking Scotland. Presumably it was his pretext for attacking North Wales as well. Once the two Kings who were muddled together into one great King Arthur are clearly identified, finding them is possible. Scrofae is indisputably Shrewsbury and Shropshire of today, and Wallisis Wales. As "scrofae" means to scrape out, we are undoubtably getting a description of the great scraped out ditch of Offa's Dyke.
The Scrofae via or Way is "Sugeweg” or “Large/great - vigour/life”, and would seem to indicate the Watling Street or the Gwatling Street from Gwrtheyrn Strada.
Next, William of Malmesbury brings in the "illius Ealde Cyrcenas" as the people of the region. Literally the "Old Syrians", which harks back to the Gutian migration under Albyne around 1567BC, which people were the Geauntes to the old Welsh, and later the Gewissae of Bede and other Mediaeval writers. Again this tends to locate the geography into the West Midlands.
William of Malesbury specifies that this special area - an isle - was first “Ynyswytrin,” which is “The Isle Spreading Out", - in short a missionary church from which the spreading out of teaching took place. When the Angles subjugated the area it became Glastinbiri. The text next states, that the lsland area was "Avalloniae", and that it was called a place of apples, from Avalla in Breton and poma in Latin. Welsh texts tend to state "Afallach" which means two things, - first "an orchard” and secondly the Latin equivalent of Valentia. Afallach can mean "land abandoned or given up for another use. Fortunately Appleby Parma and Appleby Major are still in the correct West Midlands area. Land granted to a church was indeed surrendered to another usage.
Then, as a pièce de résistance, William of Malmesbury actually describes the scene of Arthur's grave. He states that it is in the Old Cemetery of the Monks. In addition he dates the battle of Camlann as 542 years after the incarnation of the Lord, which is 33 + 542 and therefore 575. Clearly William of Malmesbury knows of only one “King Arthur", and has identified Arthur I in the Midlands as Arthur II of Glamorgan-Gwent.
“The neglect of Arthur, reknowned King of the British in the cemetery of the Monks between two pyramids, with his wife's tumulus where multitudes of the eminent British are buried.”
What this all amounts to is that in the West Midlands area, formerly Cornovi and Dubonni territories, - the Old Syrians or Gewissae, - the Mediterranean Angles invade and these Mediterranean Angles are the Mercians. Everything locates the region as the Warwickshire areas of Birmingham and Coventry stretching up towards Chester. Not only is Lichfield to the North of Birmingham specified as Glastonbury in the Black Book of Carmarthen, but places called Apples are identified by William of Malmesbury,and Appleby Magna and Appleby Parva still stand. We are told of a great scraped out ditch, of Scrobes -Shropshire,- of a way to Wales, and of Urbs Vitris or Viroconium-Wroxeter, North West of Birmingham. This brings the correct geographical area into focus. The next obvious is to locate the ancient old cemetery of the Monks with its two pyramids - probably earth mound tumuli. The obvious course now undertaken by Wilson and Blackett was to analyse all the seemingly strange names of this entire region, to see if they translated into meaningful Welsh. Immediately apparent was Atherston, which could be Arthur’s Twyn - or Grave Mound, and its eastern district of Old-bury - the Old Burying Place. This ancient cemetery lies immediately east of a Monastery which was dissolved and sold off by Henry VIII around 1536AD. It was not altogether unexpected when the vast majority of North Warwickshire places names deciphered as perfectly logical, perfectly intelligible Welsh. The ancient cemetery of Oldbury is being cleared of centuries of woods and overgrowth, and remarkable features are reappearing. The cemetery lies to the East of the Manor House built on the site of the ancient monastery which Henry VIII dissolved around 1536. At the entry are two large "pyramid” grave mounds, just as are specified in the account of the burial of King Arthur. Beyond these, as the undergrowth is cleared away, there are numbers of large cairn tombs, which are of piled stones some 18 to 20 feet long and around 6 to 7 feet wide, rising to 2½ to 3 feet. These are large tombs and are clearly those of important people, which matches the statement that-"multitudes of the eminent British are buried." One of the two grave mounds is a large low oval mound, and the other is a smaller more pointed heap rising to around 10 feet. There is, therefore, an ancient cemetery which quite obviously contains many graves of important people, and there is very clearly an entry where two large tumulus or "pyramid” mounds were placed. The fact that all the clear name references in the records of Caradoc of Llancarfan and the “Vitae Gildas" all point unquestionably to the West Midlands is unavoidable. Add the definitive statement in the illustrious Black Book of Carmarthen citing the King Lists compiled around 920AD for the wedding of Owain ap Hywell Dda and stating that Glastonbury was definitely at Lichfield, and the matter is proved. 1) Glastenic was at Caer Loyt Coit = Lichfield West Midlands.
2) Mediterranean Angles = Vandal Mercians which can be proved beyond doubt… again the Midlands.
3) The road “Sugewege” to Scrofae, is Gwatling or Watling Street…again West Midlands.
5) Cornubiae the Cornovi nation…again West Midlands.
6) Dibenae the Dubnni nation…again West Midlands.
7) Urbs Vitris almost certainly Uriconium – Virconium, or Wroxeter, West Midlands.
8] Scrofae which is Shrewsbury, Shropshire, is also the great vigour-effort of scraping out Offa’s Dyke…again West Midlands.
9) Wallis is Wales and to be alongside Wales it is necessary to be on the West Midlands.
10) The place of Apples is Appleby Magna and Appleby Parva… again squarely in the West Midlands.
11) The “Ealde Cyrcenas” or the Old Syrians are the Gutians-Geauntes-Gewissae and (Ge)wessex people, who were finally dominated by the Mercian-Vandals as these new arrivals of 548AD moved West from the East Midlands..
It is difficult to see how there can be any dispute over the location of Glastonbury which is clearly the buriel of King Arthur I in Warwickshire in the West Midlands. Then there are references to prominent Saints visiting Glastonbury, and the known locations of these Saints including St Collen, St David, St Gildas ap Caw, and of course St Patrick. All these again point to the West Midlands as the probable area where Glastonbury was first founded. As King Ina ruled and lived with his Queen Ethelfleda from their Castle on the River Tame at Tamworth, it should have been logical to look for the Land Grant regions of King Ina which mention the River Tame, later misread as Tamar, in this area. Unfortunate scholars have striven mightily to reconstruct an unknown, unrecorded, untraceable military campaign of King Ina into regions in the South West which he did not enter or control, to try to establish these Land Grants along the River Tamar in Cornwall some 300 miles away from King Ina's borders, and in land not entered by (Ge)wessex Gewissae Kings. The truth is that King Ina, who lived at Tamworth and ruled the Midlands was giving Land Grants to Glastonbury Abbey in the Lichfield Midlands area and, not to an unfounded Glastonbury Abbey in the South West of England. He gave Land Grants along the River Tame in the Midlands and not along the Tamar in Cornwall which remained British and not Gewissae-Wessex territory for 200 years after King Ina died. A search of the place names in the West Midlands reveals the truth of Ina's Grants, and this alone destroys the Somerset West of England fabrications. Every reader of Arthurian Histories and Romances will know of the invading Irish King known as Rhitta Gawr in Welsh sources and as “King Ryon" in later French and English Romance Tales. This aggressive invader is credited with forcing his conquered opponents to shave off their beards, a process which is generally accepted as disqualifying them as military men and forcing them to become Monks. Rhitta Gawr or "King Ryon" was of course killed by King Arthur and a cairn of stones near Snowdon marks his traditional grave. This parallels the invading Irish chieftain known as Reueth who was killed in the same area around 373AD. If, as appears obvious, Rhitta Gawr or Ryon is Tieueth, then he was killed by King Arthur I son of Mascen Wledig and Ceindrech, the Arthur or Andragathius (in Latin) who invaded Gaul in 383AD. Again there is a location into the North Wales and adjacent West Midlands region, and it is Arthur I, who King Gruffydd ap Cynan recorded, as fortifying the Lichfield area, in his "Hanes" of 1100AD. The other source of extensive extant evidence lies in the dozens of place names which are splattered all across the Maps of the West Midlands and persisted down through the ages. These names are clearly Khumric-Welsh and specify the locations of the “untraceable" sites. Allied to this is the quite extensive body of Mediaeval Poetry known as “The Awntyrs of Arthure" (at "the Terne Wathelyn”) which are the "Adventuress of Arthur (at Tarn Wathelyn)". Tarn Wathelyn has been identified as a small Cumberland Lake drained in the 19th Century. Studies in Mediaeval Dialects have tended to place the four surviving Manuscripts of the Adventures of Arthur as being written in North Midlands areas and London. Further to this there are clear references in the Adventures Poems which indisputably identify Arthur the Black son of Mascen Wledig. In Line 30, when speaking of the Queen,-
“That borne was in Borgoyne (Burgundy) by boke and by belle." Meaning that the Queen was born in Burgundy -"by Book (Bible) and by Bell", a sworn affidavit of truth. This identifies the Lady Genevieve of Paris at the time when Arthur I, son of Mascen seized the city in 383AD.
We also get Knights named in Line 96 as; -
"Sir Cadour (Cador), Sir Cleges, Sir Constantine, Sir Cai,”
It was Constantine the son of Mascen and Queen Helen, a half-brother of Arthur I, who led the British armies into Gaul in 406AD, to divert the hordes of Vandals, Alans, Sueves, and others who had crossed the Rhine, away from the Channel Coasts and Britain. This is Historical fact. Cador is also of the era around 400, as is Cleges.
The conquest of Gaul in 383AD is clearly stated in Lines 274 - 277 and following,
“Franee have you freely with your fight won,
Freol (Frollo) and his company dead are they laid,
Britanny and Burgundy are _both at your command,
And all the Knights of France with your blows (are) dead.”
There are references to threats to Arthur's rule in Britain, and clear statements concerning Tuscany in Italy -Line 284.
There are references to rich Romans and the river Tiber in Lines 280 and 282, and Line 281 there is reference to -"rents (tears) in the Round Table". Then in Line 292, we find -"It shall in Tuskan (Tuscany) be told of the treason " Everything points to King Arthur I -Andragathius and his campaigns of 383 – 388AD, through France and Switzerland, down through Italy, and over into the Balkans and Yugoslavia to fight Theodosius of Constantinople at Poetovio and Sisica on the Sica River.
Finally in Lines 664 – 666AD the King gives Sir Gawayn -Owain the rule over Wales which confirms him as 0wain Vinddu, brother and successor to Arthur Ddu son of Mascen Wledig, with 0wain Vinddu correctly identified in the Songs of the Graves as buried at Llanhileth in Gwent. This whole body of evidence and tradition clearly surrounds Arthur I of the 350 – 400AD era, and places him into the Western Midlands of England and near Lichfield - Glastonbury.