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| History of Wales |
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The list of legendary rulers of Wales was complied from its tradition in the European Iron Age (c. 1,000 BC – 400AD), and then recorded into British manuscripts during the middle ages (c. 500 – 1500 AD). The original works were combined and finally published by the Welsh monk Geoffrey of Monmouth in his book the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of kings), around the year 1138. The work was based on that of past English and Welsh monks, and was written in the Latin language. The History of Kings book has offered insight into the dozens of generations and thousands of years of kings in Great Britain; specifically the countries England, Scotland and Wales. Geoffrey's book became a focal point for Welsh society by the Wales in the High Middle Ages, that was when British ruling monarchs would compare themselves as the direct descendants of Brutus of Troy, which would assert their kingship as reigning monarchs in Wales. Later on, during the years 1600 & 1607, the Welsh genealogist John Williams wrote an updated version of the Welsh genealogy manuscripts, when he finished the Book of Baglan, which was republished in 1910 by Joseph Bradney.
This list documents the timeline of Kings in Britain; then also what became the British and Roman Iron Ages. The age began centuries after the Trojan war c. 1184 BC in modern day Türkiye. Then it was Brutus of Troy's family who had fled the then Greek Empire eventually sailing to Totnes, England. But, the age ended with the Roman occupation of Britain over a millennium later between roughly 0AD- 400. The line of kings spanned for almost two millennium until the final claimant, Owain Glyndŵr, declared himself as the Prince of Wales during 1400 AD. Glyndwr's claim asserted his own rights as an heir of multiple kingdoms and also descending from the Iron Age tribal royal title of Governor of Cambria, as he was a lineal and a direct descendant of Brutus, and his son Camber, the first King of Wales (Cambria).