History of the Kings of Britain

Trahern

Family: Romans · Role: uncle of Helena · First appears: Book V 8–9

Life events

  • Constantine advanced Leolin, Trahern, and Marius to the rank of senators.(Book V 8–9 · 📍 Rome)
    • With: Constantine, son of Helena Leolin Marius
    • “In this expedition he carried along with him three uncles of Helena, viz. Leolin, Trahern, and Marius, and advanced them to the degree of senators.”
  • Trahern captured Kaerperis after assaulting the city for two days.(Book V 8–9 · 📍 Kaerperis)
    • “Trahern came to shore near the city, which in the British tongue is called Kaerperis, and having assailed it, took it in two days.”
  • Trahern dispossessed Octavius of his cities and crown.(Book V 8–9)
    • With: Octavius
    • “Trahern, when he found the day was his own, pursued Octavius, nor ever suffered him to be at rest till he had dispossessed him both of his cities and crown.”
  • Trahern was ambushed and killed by a magistrate and a hundred men.(Book V 8–9)
    • “For as Trahern was one day upon a journey from London, he lay hid with a hundred men in the vale of a wood, through which he was to pass, and there fell upon him unawares, and killed him in the midst of his men.”

Book V 8–9

  • younger kin: Helena “In this expedition he carried along with him three uncles of Helena, viz. Leolin, Trahern, and Marius, and advanced them to the degree of senators.”
  • enemies with Octavius “king Octavius assembled all the forces of the land, and went to meet him not far from Winchester, in a field called in the British tongue Maisuriam, where he engaged with him in battle, and routed him.”
  • patron: Constantine, son of Helena “In this expedition he carried along with him three uncles of Helena, viz. Leolin, Trahern, and Marius, and advanced them to the degree of senators.”

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