Vortigern

<p>Vortigern , also spelled Vortiger, Vortigan, Voertigern and Vortigen, was a 5th-century <a href="/facts/Warlord/Ag4EleFa">warlord</a> in <a href="/facts/Sub-Roman_Britain/MjjEVIWY">Britain</a>, known perhaps as a <a href="/facts/King_of_the_Britons/pA69vGnT">king of the Britons</a> or at least connoted as such in the writings of <a href="/facts/Bede/y9yWnIua">Bede</a> and <a href="/facts/Gildas/2n1C22pz">Gildas</a>. His existence is contested by scholars and information about him is obscure.
</p><p>He may have been the "superbus tyrannus" said to have invited <a href="/facts/Hengist_and_Horsa/JuSuGEcE">Hengist and Horsa</a> to aid him in fighting the <a href="/facts/Picts/Y2M50Ulj">Picts</a> and the <a href="/facts/Scottish_people/0rp2bd12">Scots</a>, whereupon they revolted, killing his son in the process and forming the <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Kent/MsWYzlrM">Kingdom of Kent</a>. It is said that he took refuge in <a href="/facts/North_Wales/71KFFTgs">North Wales</a>, and that his grave was in <a href="/facts/Dyfed/mtEI1y06">Dyfed</a> or the <a href="/facts/Ll%25C5%25B7n_Peninsula/tmkaJdJP">Llŷn Peninsula</a>. Gildas later denigrated Vortigern for his misjudgement and also blamed him for the loss of Britain. He is cited at the beginning of the genealogy of the early <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Powys/0nTAvRJp">Kings of Powys</a>.
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