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Budic de BRETAGNE II
- Preferred Name: Budic de BRETAGNE II[1]
- Gender: M
- Birth: ABT 460 with note: GEDCOM data
- Burial: ABT 544 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France at LATI: N8.108 LONG: E1.6767 with note: Standard
- unknown: in King of the Bretons at LATI: N3.2385 LONG: E7.6316 with note: Same person
- Death: ABT 544 with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King with note: Same person
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Emperor of Armorica with note: data standardization
- alt.death: um 0554
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: with note: Description: King of Bretagne
- Occupation: king of Cornouaille in Brittany in the late 5th and early 6th centuries
- prince, de Cornouailles: BET 513 AND 544 with note: GEDCOM data
- FSID: GXJ6-NP1
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
The people shown as ancestors of this person, such as Lancelot, High-King Arthur of Britain and King Arthur are not real people.
Budic II, King of Brittany
Not to be confused with his uncle and namesake, Budic was called by his title, Emyr Llydaw (Emperor of Brittany) by the Welsh. He apparently married the sister of High-King Arthur of Britain. The lady is usually assumed to have been Anna, but there are indications that Elaine (Elen) was his true wife. He is thus, probably, the original of King Nentres (a corrupt form of Emyr) who was mistakenly given the realm of Anna's husband, Garlot (Caer-Lot). He may also be connected with the literary King Ban of Benwick (sometimes Brittany). It was probably during his cousin's usurpation of the Breton throne that Budic fled to Britain, along with his father and the Breton fleet. They took refuge at the court of King Aircol Lawhir of Dyfed, where he met and married his second wife, Anowed, the sister of St. Teilo. The two settled in Britain and lived there for many years during which time Anowed gave birth to two sons. During her third pregnancy though, messengers arrived announcing that the Breton King (probably the childless Rivod) was dead and that his people desired Budic to be their King. So he returned in triumph to a kingdom that became known as Cornouaille Budic in his honour. It was during Budic's reign that, an old legend says, Breton armies first became invincible on horseback. During a visit of St. Teilo to Brittany, Budic, his brother-in-law, persuaded the saint to rid his lands of a terrible dragon that was terrorising the countryside. With much prayer, Teilo was able to subdue the beast and he tied it to a rock in the sea. Afraid that it would return without Teilo's protection, Budic created his brother-in-law the Bishop of Dol. Teilo entered the city upon a divine white steed given him by an angel. This, he later presented to the King with the promise that his cavalry would always be victorious in battle. Budic may have ruled jointly with his son, Hoel I Mawr (the Great) in his later years. He eventually died in 545, having left his grandson and heir, Tewdwr, in the care of King Macliau of the Vannetais.
Preferred Parents:
Mother: Alma de Saint Domnonee, b. 449 in Rennes, Bretagne, Frankreich d. um 0510 in Rennes, Bretagne, Frankreich
Family 1: Anowed ferch Teithfallt, b. ABT 475 in Tintagel, Cornwall, England
Family 2: Élaine fetch Gorlois de Tintagel, b. 460 in Rennes, Bretagne (Région), France d. ABT 550 in Rennes, Bretagne (Région), France
- Alianor verch Buidic, b. 510 in Scotland d. 550
Sources:
- Title: Wikipedia, Budic II Bretagne
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budic_II_of_Brittany;
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