Walgan

Family: Britons · Role: son of Lot · First appears: Book IX 7–10

In Book IX, Walgan is identified as the son of Lot and brother of Modred, born to Lot and his wife, the sister of Aurelius Ambrosius. At twelve, he was recommended by his uncle to Supplicius’s service and received arms from him: “Walgan, the son of Lot, was then a youth twelve years old.”

By Book X, Walgan was sent with Boso and Guerinus Carnotensis to Lucius Tiberius, in connection with Arthur’s demand that the Romans withdraw or fight for Gaul. When Caius Quintilianus provoked him, Walgan killed him with his sword; when Marcellus Mutius seized him in revenge, Walgan killed him as well. After the Britons defeated the Romans and captured Petreius Cotta, Arthur promised the victorious Britons greater honours. Later, at Suesia, Walgan and Hoel rallied retreating troops and helped drive their pursuers into flight.

In Book XI, at the port of Rutupi, Walgan fell in battle beside Augusel and many others: “For the same day fell Augusel, king of Albania, and Walgan, the king's nephew, with innumerable others.”