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Gurguit Barbtruc ap Belinus King of Britain
- Preferred Name: Gurguit Barbtruc ap Belinus King of Britain[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- Found+under+the+leadership+of+Partholoim,+30+ships+of+Basclenses+people,+exiled+from+Spain+: with note: Description: Gurguit Barbtruc allowed them to settle in Ireland
- Burial: in Caerleon on the River Usk, Newport, Wales at LATI: N2.0167 LONG: E4.8333
- MilitaryService: sailed a fleet and invaded Denmark, killing the king and reducing the country to subservience - for refusing to pay tribute
- Death: Y with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Britain - for 25 years
- FSID: G6R5-M7S
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Gurguit Barbtruc (Welsh: Gwrgant Farfdrwch) was a legendary king of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the son of Belinus and was said to have found a home for the Irish people.
Gurguit was a peaceful king who followed in the manner of his father and grandfather. Yet, when the king of the Danes refused to pay tribute to Belinus's son, Gurguit took a fleet and invaded Denmark, killing the king and reducing the country to subservience.
On the return voyage, Gurguit came across a fleet of thirty ships of men and women, called Basclenses, under the leadership of Partholoim. They had been exiled from Spain and sought a new land to live in. Gurguit did not allow them to settle in Britain but he gave them the isle of Ireland to settle, which was (according to this fanciful legend) uninhabited until then, and thus the Basclenses became the Irish.
Gurguit died peacefully and was buried in the Caerleon, a city he built up from the time his father founded it. Guithelin succeeded him to the kingship.
=== Ruled about 374-369 B.C., 5 years. (Int ===
Ruled about 374-369 B.C., 5 years. (Internet:www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm) The son and successor of Belinus, Gurguit was renowned as a "lover ofpeace and justice." During Gurguit's reign, the King of Denmark withdrewthe tribute Belinus had exacted from him, and Gurguit promptly invadedDenmark to assert his authority there. It was during his return fromDenmark that Gurguit intercepted the ships of Partholan and hisfellow-exiles. Gurguit assigned Partholan the otherwise uninhabited landof Ireland. His death was a peaceful one, and he lies buried in the cityof Caerleon-on-Usk. (Internet: www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm)
Preferred Parents:
Father: Belinus ap Dyfnwal Moelmud 16th Duke of Cornwall, b. in England d. in England
Mother: Elsingius , b. in of Lochland, Scotland
Family 1: Sra. de Gurguit Barbtruc ap Belinus King of Britain,
- Guithelin ap Gurguit, King of Britain, d. 363 BC in Britain
Sources:
- Title: Ancestry Family Trees
Author: Ancestry Family Tree
- Title: document
Publication: Name: https://wikivividly.com/wiki/Gurguit_Barbtruc;
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