Lucius

Family: Britons · Role: king of Britain · First appears: Book IV 17–20

Life events

• Lucius obtained the crown after Coillus’s death.(Book IV 17–20)
  • “Coillus had but one son, named Lucius, who, obtaining the crown after his father's decease, imitated all his acts of goodness”
• Lucius requested Christian instruction from Pope Eleutherius.(Book IV 17–20)
  • With: Eleutherius
  • “he sent letters to pope Eleutherius, desiring to be instructed by him in the Christian religion.”
• Eleutherius sent Faganus and Duvanus, who baptized Lucius and converted him to Christianity.(Book IV 17–20 · 📍 Britain)
  • With: Eleutherius Faganus Duvanus
  • “that holy pope, upon receipt of this devout petition, sent to him two most religious doctors, Faganus and Duvanus, who, after they had preached concerning the incarnation of the Word of God, administered baptism to him, and made him a proselyte to the Christian faith.”
• Lucius died without an heir, causing dissension among the Britons.(Book V 1–3 · 📍 Gloucester)
  • “he departed this life in the city of Gloucester, and was honourably buried in the cathedral church, in the hundred and fifty-sixth year after our Lord's incarnation. He had no issue to succeed him”

Book IV 17–20

• parent: Coillus “Coillus had but one son, named Lucius, who, obtaining the crown after his father's decease, imitated all his acts of goodness”
• with Eleutherius (Lucius requested religious instruction from Eleutherius.) “he sent letters to pope Eleutherius, desiring to be instructed by him in the Christian religion”
• mentor: Faganus “For that holy pope, upon receipt of this devout petition, sent to him two most religious doctors, Faganus and Duvanus, who, after they had preached concerning the incarnation of the Word of God, administered baptism to him, and made him a proselyte to the Christian faith.”
• mentor: Duvanus “For that holy pope, upon receipt of this devout petition, sent to him two most religious doctors, Faganus and Duvanus, who, after they had preached concerning the incarnation of the Word of God, administered baptism to him, and made him a proselyte to the Christian faith.”

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Extracted from the original text of The History of the Kings of Britain. Made with Rho MD.