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,
Mystic Arcana Arthurian era, at the end of a battle and informs Percy that King Arthur is holding off an attack by his nephew Mordred alone at Percy's castle in Scandia. Percy rushes to Arthur's rescue, but arrives in time to see Arthur fatally wounded by Mordred. As Percy avenges his fallen king, he recalls an encounter with Welsh god Gwyn ap Nudd, a hunter spirit and of spring, during which Gwyn predicted that Percy would become a warrior and "the hand of fate." The story then progresses to detail how Percy came to be the Black Knight under Merlin's supervision. When