King Camber

King Camber
Camber from the Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England to Edward IV (c. 1461)
King of Kambria
PredecessorBrutus of Troy
SuccessorQueen Gwendolen
FatherBrutus of Troy
MotherInnogen

Camber, also Kamber, was the legendary first king of Cambria, according to the Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first part of his influential 12th-century pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae. According to Geoffrey, Cambria, the classical name for Wales, was named for him.

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