A granddaughter, a grandson, and a misplaced father.

How a Pedigree and Geoffrey of Monmouth corroborate the lost Northern Chronicle of Rhun ab Urien.

In my previous article I pointed out that there seems to have been a break in continuity within the line of succession for the late-5th century kingdom of Ebrauc.

This leads me to the conclusion that this is a fragment from a regnal list of Ebrauc itself, showing direct father-son transfer of power, except for Garbanian. It is unlikely that Garbanian’s interpolation is a mistake, as it seems quite deliberate, and it is also unlikely that it represents a missing generation, as it shifts all of the late 6th century figures out too far to be chronologically acceptable. The conclusion here is that Garbanian, potentially acting as high-king for a short time, may have ruled Ebrauc while Arthwys was young. This poises Arthwys to act as Garbanian’s Penteulu, fighting ‘cum regibus Brittonum’.