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Battle of Mons Badonicus
Gildas records the Britons heavily defeating the Saxons in a siege at Mons Badonicus, in the year of his birth, dated roughly to the late 5th–early 6…
Timeline
- c. 480–500Post-Roman Britain · British IslesGildas records that after Ambrosius Aurelianus organized the surviving Britons' resistance, the two sides alternated in victory and defeat until the siege of Mons Badonicus. He does not specify that the opponents were necessarily Saxons, nor does he name the commander or identify the site.
- c. 500Mons Badonicus (site unidentified) · British IslesGildas calls the siege of Mons Badonicus almost the last great slaughter of the enemy, and says the year was the year of his birth. Bede follows the 'siege of Mons Badonicus' and places it about 44 years after the coming of the Saxons. Only the 9th-century Historia Brittonum makes Arthur the commander of this battle; contemporary sources do not mention Arthur's name.
Sources
- Battle of Badon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badon
- Battle of Badon (Q595320) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595320
- De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae — Gildas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Excidio_et_Conquestu_Britanniae
- Historia Brittonum (Fordham sourcebook) https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/nennius-full.asp