Geoffrey Rush

significant dynasty was established by Wace who, in the Roman de Brut (1155), tells how Aeneas fled from Troy to Latium and how Brut, his great grandson, left Latium and came to Britain. Wace’s major source was the Historia regum britanniae (1135) by Geoffrey of Monmouth who, after establishing Brut as the first king of the Britons, devoted a fifth of his History to Arthur’s resistance to the Saxons in the sixth century. If Geoffroy mentions Uther Pendragon and Merlin, it was Wace who first spoke of the