c. 465 - 542
	Artorius Verus
Champion of the Britons, Artorius Verus, (Latin, meaning 'the real Arthur'), was the true identity of this legendary mortal phenomena, the Celtic, tribal warrior-chieftain who, with his awesome power of leadership and his uniquely inspired cavalry raiding tactics, tenaciously fought back the inexorable Saxon invasion of Albion. Artorius's achievements went down in British folk history to emerge again in the 12th century as the History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, illumined still further in 1470 by Malory in his Le Morte d'Arthur, as the legendary Arthur of Camelot.