Dunvallo Molmutius

Dunvallo Molmutius ( Dyfual moel myd in Welsh) is a legendary king of the island of Brittany (current Great Britain), whose “history” is reported by Geoffroy de Monmouth in his Historia regum Britanniae (towards 1135). He is the son of Cloten, the king of Cornouailles. Its reign would have lasted 40 years.

The kingdom of the island of Brittany

After the Trojan War, Énée arrives in Italy, with his/her son Ascagne and becomes the Master of the kingdom of the Romans. Its grandson Brutus is constrained with the exile after having accidentally killed his father. After a long navigation, Brutus unloads in the island of Brittany, occupies it and makes its kingdom of it. He marries Innogen of which he has three wire. With its death, the kingdom is divided in three parts and its sons succeed to him: Locrinus receives the center from the island to which it gives the name of “Loegrie”, Kamber receives the “Cambrie” (current Wales) and its name gives him, Albanactus inherits the area of north and calls it “Albania” (Scotland). Following the invasion of Albania by Huns and of died of Albanactus, the kingdom is reunified under the sovereignty of Locrinus. It is the beginning of a long list of sovereigns.

Dunvallo Molmutius

Dunvallo Molmutius is the son of Cloten, king de Cornouailles, he is the first sovereign not to be gone down in hot line from the founder Brutus from Brittany. It reaches the capacity after a civil war during which five kings followed one another and entretués, since the murder of Porrex Ier.

According to Geoffroy de Monmouth, it is most beautiful and most valiant of all the kings of insular Brittany. It attacks Pinner, the king of Loegrie and kills it, which causes an alliance between Staterius, king d' Albanie, and Rudaucus, king of Cambrie. The two armies invade the territory of Dunvallo Molmutius and devastate it. Dunvallo goes to their meeting with an army of 30.000 soldiers, but the exit of the battle is dubious. To carry it, it conceives a stratagem which consists in making cover with 600 men the getups dead enemies. Staterius and Rudaucus are killed, their occupied, devastated kingdoms then joined together under only one crown.

Dunvallo enacts then the laws “Molmutines” according to which any person taking refuge in a temple, obtains forgiveness; this measurement also applying to the roads and the cities of these temples. This is why there was no violence during its 40 years reign. It is buried with Trinovantum. A civil war between its two sons Brenne and Belin follows.

Source

  • Geoffroy de Monmouth, History of the kings de Bretagne , translated and commented on by Laurence Mathey-Mesh, Beautiful letters, coll “the Wheel with books”, Paris, 2004.

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