CDL a.D. - Le mariage de Vortigern
General Summary
Vortigern marries Rowena, daughter of Hengest. Hengest receives half of the Cantii civitas as her brideprice, naming it Kent. The Cantii leader is executed for treason when he objects. Vortigern’s horrified sons fear for their own inheritance.
En Césarée Maxime :Vortigern, impressed with the battle prowess of the Saxons and even more with the talents of Rowena, the daughter of the Saxon chief Hengest, marries her this year in a lavish celebration. Hengest receives the Cantii civitas as her bride price and renames it Kent. As soon as the leader of the Cantii protests his tribe’s lands given away, he is arrested for High Treason and executed while the wedding feast is still going on. What is this? The bride pregnant already? The leader whose land was just given away, killed for treason? Has everyone lost their senses?