Mempricius
Family: Britons · Role: counsellor · First appears: Book I 8–10
Life events
- Mempricius betrays and murders Malim during a false treaty.(Book II 1–7)
- With: Malim
- “Mempricius, impatient to attain his ends, enters into treaty with Malim, under colour of making a composition with him, and, having formed a conspiracy, murdered him in the assembly where their ambassadors were met.”
- Mempricius dies, and his son Ebraucus assumes the government of Britain.(Book II 1–7)
- With: Ebraucus
- “Mempricius being dead, Ebraucus, his son, a man of great stature and wonderful strength, took upon him the government of Britain”
Book I 8–10
- with Brutus (Mempricius proposes a marriage arrangement for Brutus.) “I propose, therefore, that you request of him his eldest daughter, Ignoge, for a wife for our general, and with her, gold, silver, corn, and whatever else shall be necessary for our voyage.”
Book II 1–7
- parent: Maddan “Maddan, now in possession of the crown, had by his wife two sons, Mempricius and Malim, and ruled the kingdom in peace and with care forty years.”
- siblings with Malim “As soon as he was dead, the two brothers quarrelled for the kingdom, each being ambitious of the sovereignty of the whole island.”
- enemies with Malim “Mempricius, impatient to attain his ends, enters into treaty with Malim, under colour of making a composition with him, and, having formed a conspiracy, murdered him in the assembly where their ambassadors were met.”
- child: Ebraucus “He also deserted his own wife, by whom he had a noble youth named Ebraucus, and addicted himself to sodomy, preferring unnatural lust to the pleasures of the conjugal state.”
- with Ebraucus (Ebraucus succeeded Mempricius as ruler) “Mempricius being dead, Ebraucus, his son, a man of great stature and wonderful strength, took upon him the government of Britain, which he held forty years.”
- rivals with Malim “As soon as he was dead, the two brothers quarrelled for the kingdom, each being ambitious of the sovereignty of the whole island.”
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Extracted from the original text of The History of the Kings of Britain. Made with Rho MD.