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Vortimer

Vortimer (Old Welsh Guorthemir, Welsh: Gwerthefyr), also known as Saint Vortimer (Welsh: Gwerthefyr Fendigaid, lit. "Vortimer the Blessed"), is a figure in British tradition, a son of the 5th-century Britonnic ruler Vortigern. He is remembered for his fierce opposition to his father's Saxon allies. In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, he overthrows his father and reigns as King of Britain for a brief period before his death restores Vortigern to power.

Accounts

Vortimer first appears in the 9th-century work known as the Historia Brittonum. According to the Historia, Vortigern allows Saxons under Hengest and Horsa to settle on the Isle of Thanet, and offers them provisions in exchange for their service as mercenaries.[1] Vortigern soon proves to be an "ignorant king", and the wily Hengest manipulates him into ceding over more land and allowing more settlers to come from Germania.[1] After a dire period of Saxon encroachment, exacerbated by even more disgraceful behavior on Vortigern's part, Vortimer finally rises up against the Saxons. He pushes them back to Thanet, and meets them in four battles. At the third battle Horsa and Vortimer's brother Catigern are slain; at the fourth the Saxons are pushed back to the sea.[2] Shortly thereafter, however, Vortimer dies. He asks his followers to bury him at the place where the Saxons first landed in Britain as a totem against further invasion. However, his followers fail to heed his warning and the Saxons return.[3] Another manuscript of the Historia Brittonum (Chronica Minora, Berlin, 1892) follows this with: "if they had kept his command, there is no doubt that they would have obtained whatever they wished through the prayers of St Germanus.”[4] According to the Welsh Triads his bones were buried "in the Chief Ports of this Island".[5]

Three of Vortimer's battle sites are named: the first was on the Darent "super flumen Derguentid'" the second "at the ford called Episford in their language, Rhyd yr Afael in ours 'super vadum quod dicitur in lingua eorum Episford, in nostra autem lingua Rithergabail'"; the third was "by the inscribed stone on the shore of the Gallic Sea 'in campo juxta Lapidem tituli, qui est super ripam Gallici maris'". While some aspects of these battles correspond with three battles in Kent mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle between the years 455 and 466 (especially the Battle of Aylesford), there are a number of crucial inconsistencies.[6] The Chronicle does not name Vortimer, and in fact credit Vortigern as the British leader in one of the battles.

The legendary material in the Historia Brittonum was slightly expanded upon in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, widely believed to be a fictional account of the rulers of Britain. There the Britons abandon Vortigern and elevate Vortimer to be king of Britain. After he has driven out the Saxons, Vortimer is poisoned by his stepmother Rowena (a Saxon) and Vortigern regains the crown. Geoffrey says that Vortimer was buried at Trinovantum (London), and mentions the link with St. Germanus, who encourages Vortimer to rebuild the churches.[7]

This account survives in Geoffrey's continuators Wace and Layamon: they both give London as his burial place; Layamon specifically mentions Belyn's Gate (Billingsgate. He also includes the detail that Vortimer offered twelve pennies reward for the head of any heathen brought to him.[8] Both authors mention the connection with St Germanus.

Writing in the eighteenth century, the Rev. Philip Morant tells us that Aldroen, king of Armorica, sent ten thousand troops to Britain under the command of Aurelius Ambrosius. He was seen as a usurper by Vortimer's followers, and a civil war broke out between the two factions, which lasted seven or eight years. Peace was eventually brokered between the warring factions by splitting Britain between them: Aurelius ruling the western part of the island, with Vortimer and Vortigern in the east: "divided from one another by... Watling Street". Morant says that Vortimer died in 475, but does not mention poison.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Nennius, (Traditional attribution) (1848) [Composed after AD 830]. Gunn, W.; Giles, J. A. (translators) (eds.). History of the Britons: Chapters 36–38  – via Wikisource. {{citation}}: |editor2-first= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ Nennius, (Traditional attribution) (1848) [Composed after AD 830]. Gunn, W.; Giles, J. A. (translators) (eds.). History of the Britons: Chapters 43–44  – via Wikisource. {{citation}}: |editor2-first= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ Nennius, (Traditional attribution) (1848) [Composed after AD 830]. Gunn, W.; Giles, J. A. (translators) (eds.). History of the Britons: Chapter 44  – via Wikisource. {{citation}}: |editor2-first= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Arthurian Period Sources (1980). British history ; and the Welsh annals (J Morris (translator) ed.). London: Phillimore. p. 32. ISBN 9780850332988.
  5. ^ Bromwich, Rachel (1978). Trioedd Ynys Prydein (4th ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-78316-146-1.
  6. ^ Carruthers, Bob (2013). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Illustrated and Annotated. Croydon: Pen & Sword Military. p. 49. ISBN 9781781591482.
  7. ^ Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph,?-1154 (2007). History of the kings of Britain: an edition and translation of De gestis Britonum (Historia regum Britanniae). Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843834410.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Wace and Layamon, c1155 and c1190 (1976). Arthurian chronicles. London: Dent. ISBN 0460015788.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Morant, Philip (1970). The history and antiquities of the most ancient town and borough of Colchester (1st ed.). Wakefield: S.R. Publishers. p. 39. ISBN 0854096418.
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