Le Morte d'Arthur

Belinus

Family: Britain · Role: king · First appears: Book V, Chapter I

Life events

  • Arthur claims Britain’s imperial right through descent from earlier British rulers.(Book V, Chapter I)
    • With: King Arthur Brenius Sir Constantine Heleine
    • “I have understood that Belinus and Brenius, kings of Britain, have had the empire in their hands many days, and also Constantine the son of Heleine, which is an open evidence that we owe no tribute to Rome but of right we that be descended of them have right to claim the title of the empire”

Book V, Chapter I

  • with King Arthur (Arthur identifies himself as descended from Belinus.) “I have understood that Belinus and Brenius, kings of Britain, have had the empire in their hands many days, and also Constantine the son of Heleine, which is an open evidence that we owe no tribute to Rome but of right we that be descended of them have right to claim the title of the empire.”

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