Aganippus

Family: Gaul · Role: king of the Franks · First appears: Book II 8–11

Life events

• Cordeilla was sent to Gaul and married Aganippus.(Book II 8–11 · 📍 Gaul)
  • With: Cordeilla
  • “At last the match was concluded; Cordeilla was sent to Gaul, and married to Aganippus.”
• Aganippus and Cordeilla received Leir honorably and entrusted Gaul's power to him.(Book II 12–14 · 📍 Gaul)
  • With: Cordeilla Leir
  • “Upon which they, attended with their chief ministers of state and the nobility of the kingdom, went out to meet him, and received him honourably, and gave into his management the whole power of Gaul, till such time as he should be restored to his former dignity.”
• Leir returned with an army, defeated his sons-in-law, and recovered the whole kingdom.(Book II 12–14 · 📍 Britain)
  • With: Leir Cordeilla Maglaunus Henuinus
  • “Leir returned to Britain with his son and daughter and the forces which they had raised, where he fought with his sons-in-law and routed them. Having thus reduced the whole kingdom to his power”
• Leir and Aganippus died, and Cordeilla assumed the government of the kingdom.(Book II 12–14 · 📍 Leicester)
  • With: Leir Cordeilla
  • “he died the third year after. Aganippus also died; and Cordeilla, obtaining the government of the kingdom, buried her father”

Book II 8–11

• admired: Cordeilla “he, being very much in love with the lady, sent again to king Leir”
• married with Cordeilla “At last the match was concluded; Cordeilla was sent to Gaul, and married to Aganippus.”

Book II 12–14

• with Leir (Leir is Aganippus's father-in-law.) “In the meantime Aganippus sent officers over all Gaul to raise an army, to restore his father-in-law to his kingdom of Britain”

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