As soon as I uncover not only a reason, but THE REASON one line of ancestry has already been traced to the year 1000, my computer holds me in suspense by not allowing me online.
Finally by moving files, am back~
My Ancestry takes me to France and the year 1066, where Lancelot Lee (Lancelot du Leu) was born.
I couldn't wait to test this information with Sir Lancelot.
My ancestor named Lancelot dies ABT year 1114.
Could it be possible his lifetime would fit into the Legend of King Arthur?
Nothing is more intriguing than to trace and find a potential famous person ~
Such enjoyable reading about King Arthur and his Round Table, Lancelot, his most famous Knight, Queen Guinevere in Camelot.
Much is written but seems no one really knows if this story is only mythology or collection of stories. Nor are they certain which century Kind Arthur lived.
We know for sure, history in those days was passed down in stories and told by professional storytellers known as jongleurs. Therefore, we are left not really knowing.
TO SHARE SOME OF THE READINGS~
King ArthurKing Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain. He is the central character in Arthurian legends (known as the Matter of Britain), although there is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed and in the earliest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "king".
Early texts refer to him as dux bellorum ("war leader") and High Medieval Welsh texts often call him amerauder ("emperor"). However, a recent translation of newly discovered documents may have referred to him as a king.History of King Arthur.
One school of thought believes Arthur to have lived some time in the late 5th century to early 6th century, to have been of Romano-British origin, and to have fought against the Saxons. His power base was probably in either Wales, Cornwall or the west of what would become England, but controversy over the centre of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with one Riothamus, "King of the Brettones", who was active during the reign of the Roman Emperor Anthemius.
Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were Britons or Bretons. Other members suggest that Arthur should be identified as one Lucius Artorius Castus, a historical Roman of the 2nd century, whose military exploits in Britain may have been remembered for years afterward.
Many of these appearances portray Arthur as a fierce warrior, and not necessarily as morally impeccable as in later Romances.
The French medieval writer, Chrétien de Troyes, recounted tales from the mythos during the mid-12th century, as did Marie de France in her narrative poems called lais.
In any case, the later stories told by these two writers and by many, many others, appear to be independent of what Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote. In these versions, which gained popularity beginning in the 12th century, Arthur gathered the Knights of the Round Table (Lancelot, Gawain, Galahad, and others). At his court, most often held at Camelot in the later prose romances, could sometimes be found the wizard Merlin.
Arthur's knights engaged in fabulous quests, famously including one for the Holy Grail.
Other stories from the Celtic world came to be associated with Arthur, such as the tale of Tristan and Isolde. In the late prose romances the love affair between Arthur's champion, Lancelot, and the Queen, Guinevere, becomes the central reason for the fall of the Arthurian world.
In Robert de Boron's Merlin, later followed by Thomas Malory, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone and anvil. In this account, this act could not be performed except by "the true king", meaning the divinely appointed king or true heir of Uther Pendragon. This sword was presumably the famous Excalibur and the identity is made explicit in the later so-called Vulgate Merlin Continuation. However in what is sometimes called the Post-Vulgate Merlin Excalibur was taken from a hand rising from a lake and given to Arthur sometime after he began to reign by a sorcerous damsel (confused by post-medieval writers with The Lady of the Lake). In this Post-Vulgate version the sword's blade could slice through anything and its sheath made the wearer invincible
Arthur was a casualty in his last battle, the Battle of Camlann, which he fought against the forces of Mordred.
The Prose Lancelot and the later prose cyclic romances state that Mordred was also a Knight of the Round Table and the child of an incestuous union between Arthur and his sister Morgause. In almost all accounts Arthur was said to be mortally wounded, but after the battle he was taken away to Avalon (sometimes identified with Glastonbury in Somerset, England), where his wounds were healed or his body was buried in a chapel.
Some texts refer to a return of Arthur in the future.
In 1191, monks of Glastonbury Abbey announced that they had found the burial site of Arthur and Guinevere. Their grave was shown to many people, and the reputed remains were moved to a new tomb in 1278. The tomb was destroyed during the Reformation, and the bones lost. The antiquary John Leland reports that he saw the cross found with the remains, and transcribed its inscription as Hic iacet sepvltvs inclytvs rex artvrivs in insvla avalonia —
"Here is buried the famous king Arthur in the Island of Avalon".
If Leland accurately reproduced the script of this inscription, then it can be dated to the 10th century.
