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    Brutus, also called Brute of Troy, is a mythical British king. He is described as a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, known in medieval...
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    Brutus, after whom Britain is supposedly named, a tradition previously recorded in less elaborate form in the 9th century Historia Brittonum. Brutus is...
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  • up Brutus or brutus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brutus is a Latin surname, which usually refers to Marcus Junius Brutus (85–42 BC), one of the...
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    metrical romances which bear his name. Brutus of Troy, or Brute of Troy (dates to the 9th century: Legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, known in...
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    stories of Brutus of Troy, Coel Hen, Leir of Britain (King Lear), and Gogmagog. The legendary history of Britain was created partly to form a body of patriotic...
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    companion of Brutus of Troy). Gogmagog was the last of the Giants found by Brutus and his men inhabiting the land of Albion. The effigies of Gogmagog and...
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    Pandrasus several generations later, when they were liberated by Brutus of Troy. List of children of Priam The Golden Bough (mythology) Sophocles, Philoctetes...
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  • Logres (category Geoffrey of Monmouth)
    Locrinus, the oldest son of Brutus of Troy. In his Historia, Geoffrey uses the word "Loegria" to describe a province containing most of England excluding Cornwall...
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    Albion (category History of the British Isles)
    of Britain") by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the exiled Brutus of Troy was told by the goddess Diana: Brutus! there lies beyond the Gallic bounds An island which...
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    he was the eponymous founder of Leicester in England. Leir was said to have been the end of Brutus of Troy's male line of descent, siring three daughters:...
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