According to Shropshire Tourism there is truth behind the legend of King Arthur, and the real story is much closer to home than many people in the county think.
It claims:
King Arthur, was born, lived and died in Shropshire. Arthur - actually Owain Ddantgwyn or The Bear - was the king of the Votadini tribe in the Dark Ages and ruled his kingdom from Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury.
Early manuscripts in the British Library suggest King Arthur was the king of Powys, a kingdom that once covered Shropshire and Mid Wales.
Arthur also married a Shropshire girl. His wife Guinevere - or Ganhumara - was from Oswestry. Arthur is revealed to be the British warrior who, following the Roman withdrawal in the fifth century, defeated the invading Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Badon (493AD).
Excavations at the Dark Age capital of Powys, Wroxeter, four miles to the east of Shrewsbury, have shown that in the fifth century this city may have been the most sophisticated in the country. This is precisely the time that Arthur is said to have been Britain’s most powerful king.
A 10th-century manuscript in the British Library records Wroxeter was occupied in about 493AD by Owain Ddantgwyn, a late fifth-century king of Powys.
There is contemporary historical evidence he was known as Arthur.
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