Sylvius

Family: Trojans · Role: son of Ascanius · First appears: Book I 1–3

Life events

Ascanius begat Sylvius after succeeding to the kingdom.(Book I 1–3 · 📍 Alba)
- With: Ascanius
- “After his death, Ascanius, succeeding in the kingdom, built Alba upon the Tiber, and begat a son named Sylvius”
Brutus accidentally killed his father Sylvius while hunting.(Book I 1–3 · 📍 Italy)
- With: Brutus
- “At length, after fifteen years were expired, the youth accompanied his father in hunting, and killed him undesignedly by the shot of an arrow.”

parent: Ascanius “After his death, Ascanius, succeeding in the kingdom, built Alba upon the Tiber, and begat a son named Sylvius”
child: Brutus “Sylvius, who, in pursuit of a private amour, took to wife a niece of Lavinia. The damsel soon after conceived, and the father Ascanius, coming to the knowledge of it, commanded his magicians to consult of what sex the child should be. When they had satisfied themselves in the matter, they told him she would give birth to a boy, who would kill his father and mother, and after travelling over many countries in banishment, would at last arrive at the highest pitch of glory. Nor were they mistaken in their prediction; for at the proper time the woman brought forth a son, and died of his birth; but the child was delivered to a nurse and called Brutus.”

child: Brutus “Brutus, whose father was Sylvius, the son of Ascanius, the son of AEneas.”
parent: Ascanius “Brutus, whose father was Sylvius, the son of Ascanius, the son of AEneas.”

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