Lud

Lud 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 oldest son of the king Heli whom he succeeds.

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.

The reign of Lud

King Heli, whose reign lasts forty years, has three wire: Lud, Cassibellan, and Nennius. It is the groin which goes up on the throne.

It is a warrior who likes to feast. It restores the walls of the capital Trinovantum and makes build ramparts. The inhabitants are invited to renovate their houses in the same style like all the buildings. It renames the city of the name of Kaerlud, which will evolve/move in Kaerlundein, then Lundene and Lundres. With its death, it is buried there close to the door which has as a name Porthlud into Breton and Ludesgata into Saxon. It has two wire: Androgeus and Tenuantius. Too much young people to reign, it is their uncle Cassibellan (Cassivellaunos) who is crowned; it is a generous, honest king whose reputation is large. So that its nephews are not injured, it gives the town of Trinovantum and the duchy of Kent to Androgeus and the duchy of Cornouailles to Tenuantius.

After having conquered the Gaulle, Jules César arrives in the island of Brittany.

Its equivalent in the Welsh Celtic Littérature is Lludd, hero of the Conte of Lludd and Lleuelys , usually published with the Four Branches of Mabinogi . Lludd is king of the island of Brittany and must call upon his/her Lleuelys brother (non-existent in the Historia regum Britanniae ), king de France, to overcome three supernatural dangers. Its equivalent in the Irish Celtic Mythologie is the king Nuada Tuatha Dé Danann.

Sources

  • 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.

  • the Four branches of Mabinogi and other Welsh tales of the Middle Ages translates of Welsh, introduced and annotated by Pierre-Yves Lambert, Éditions Gallimard, collection “the paddle of the people”, Paris, 1993.

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