Historicity of King Arthur in the mid-10th century and gives the date of Badon as 516, and it lists Arthur's death as occurring in 537 at the Battle of Camlann. The annals survive in a version dating from the 10th century, and all other sources that name Arthur were written at least 400 years after the events which they describe. Arthur was first styled as a king of the Britons in Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle "Historia Regum Britanniae" (c. 1136). Geoffrey also makes Ambrosius Aurelianus (whom he calls Aurelius Ambrosius) a king of Britain and an older brother of Uther Pendragon, father of Arthur,
King Arthur (Marvel Comics) Sir Bedivere threw it toward the lake where it was caught by the hand of the Lady of the Lake. After a night has passed, nine women dressed as queens came and loaded King Arthur's body onto a barge and rowed it across the lake as Merlin showed them the way into Avalon. As King Arthur humbled Merlin, Sir Mogard got jealous of King Arthur liking Merlin. When Sir Mogard called Merlin a fraud, he was humbled when Merlin animated a suit of armor as his Black Knight. King Arthur granted Sir Percy refuge when his lands in Scandia were