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Uther and Merlin embarked on their task to bring back the stones from Ireland. On hearing of the arrival of the Britons and their intention to take the stones, Gillomanius, the King of Ireland, decided to defend them, forcing Uther to engage him in a battle, which the Britons won. Under the supervision of Merlin, the stones were taken up and moved to the ships with incredible ease and transported across the sea to Britain.
On their arrival, Merlin then supervised their removal and transport to the prepared site on Ambrius. Vortigern had a third son named Pascentius. With the victories of Aurelius over Hengist and Vortigern, Pascentius had fled to Germany to try and raise new forces to avenge the death of his father.
He promised huge amounts of silver and gold to any who would follow him in his attempt to invade and control Britain. Seeing vast riches to be gained, many took up the challenge, and soon he had under construction a huge fleet of ships to carry a new army to attack Britain and avenge his father against Aurelius and Uther.
Arriving in the northern part of Britain he immediately began destroying all in his path. On receiving this news, Aurelius mobilized his army; meeting Pascentius in battle he defeated him, forcing him to flee for his life. The Irish King listened to Pascentius sympathetically and the two decided to join forces against Aurelius. They mustered their forces and made ready a fleet to sail to Britain landing at Menevia, now called Swansea.
Disease and pestilence have no respect for kings or the mighty and it so happened that Aurelius had been taken ill and lay in his sickbed in Winchester. Marching to meet the invader, he took Merlin to advise him. Meanwhile, Pascentius and Gillomanius had heard that King Aurelius Ambrosius was incapacitated in his sickbed and rejoiced, thinking this would aid their conquest greatly. One of the Saxons by the name of Eopa went to Pascentius with an evil proposal and asked him what reward he would receive for killing Aurelius Ambrosius.
Pascentius told him he would reward him with one thousand pounds of silver and his lifelong friendship and make him a commander in his army. Then Eopa told him of his plan, explaining that he spoke and understood the language of the Britons and that he would disguise himself as a Christian monk of the Britons, practicing the healing arts. He would go to Winchester and seek to attend and cure Aurelius with a potion, but that potion would instead be slow acting poison, giving him time to escape.
Delighted, Pascentius struck a deal with him and agreed to the plan. On arrival, Eopa immediately made himself known as a healer and physician and offered his services to the king, who gratefully received him in the hope of being cured. Eopa promised Aurelius that his potions would quickly restore him to full health but he must follow all instructions that he would give.
Aurelius, in his innocence and desperation, readily assented, and took a mixture Eopa had prepared that had been secretly laced with poison. Obediently Aurelius drank it down and then Eopa told him to cover himself over and go to sleep. This gave Eopa plenty of time to make his escape before the death of the King was realised. When servants went to see the King they found him dead, and on searching for his physician found he had disappeared and could not be found.
As Uther marched the army of the Britons to confront the invaders, there appeared in the sky a most bright star that shone both day and night. From one of its rays their burst a beam of light that took the shape of a fiery dragon, and from its mouth two shafts of light burst forth. Uther called on Merlin to explain this celestial phenomenon. Sadly, Merlin told him it signified the death of King Aurelius Ambrosius and foretold that he would defeat the enemy and succeed him as King of the Britons.
His funeral had been conducted by the highest clergy and with all royal ceremony. The rule of Aurelius Ambrosius had rid the Britons of the usurper Vortigern, who many saw as being a weak, corrupt, and foolish man, blaming him for bringing over the Saxons who so violently betrayed him.
With Vortigern dealt with, he then removed the threat of the Saxons and subdued the Picts. Hengist had plotted treachery, however, and at his signal, his followers drew concealed knives and murdered almost all of the British nobles with them, taking them by surprise. The only survivors were Vortigern, whom Hengist spared to hold for ransom, and Count Eldol of Gloucester, who fought his way out with a large wooden staff. After Aurelius Ambrosius Uther Pendragon's older brother and King Arthur's uncle had replaced Vortigern on the throne of Britain and defeated the Saxons, he wished to raise a monument to the slaughtered British nobles and sent for Merlin to seek his advice.
Merlin counselled him to go to Ireland and remove a ring of stones from Mount Killaurus, placed there by a race of giants long ago. Aurelius at first dismissed the idea, but Merlin assured him that the stones were worth the trouble of taking them, and even possessed healing properties.
Aurelius at last agreed to the wizard's advice, and sent his younger brother Uther to Ireland with an army, and Merlin as well, to claim the stones. After defeating the Irish king Gilloman in battle, Uther and his men tried to move the stones but were unable to do so. This is probably a confusion that entered oral tradition from Wace 's Brut. Wace usually only refers to li roi 'the king' without naming him and someone has taken an early mention of Uther's epithet Pendragon as the name of his brother.
Appelbaum has suggested that Amesbury in Wiltshire might preserve in it the name of Ambrosius, and perhaps Amesbury was the seat of his power base in the later fifth century. Place name scholars have found a number of place names through the Midland dialect regions of Britain with placenames incorporating the ambre- element: Ombersley in Worcestershire , Ambrosden in Oxfordshire , Amberley in Herefordshire , and Amberley in Gloucestershire.
These scholars have claimed this element rerpresents an Old English word amor , the name of a woodland bird. However, Amesbury in Wiltshire is in a different dialect region, and does not easily fit into the pattern of the Midland dialect place names. This makes Appelbaum's suggestion more likely.
If we combine this etymology with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building Stonehenge — which is located within the parish of Amesbury and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried — and with the presence of an Iron age hill fort also in that parish, then it is extremely tempting to connect this shadowy figure with Amesbury. His sister's son is Uther Pendragon, but somehow, Uther is described as not having any Roman blood in him.
Strangely, Aurelianus is unable to gather the leadership of the native Celts, who refuse to follow any but their own race. In the Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead , Ambrosius Aurelianus referred to as " Aurelius " is a minor character, being assassinated soon after becoming High King of Prydein.
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