Leir of Britain

Leir of Britain
Leir of Britain
	King Leir and his daughters, a marginal illustration in the Chronica Majora, c. 1250
King of Britain
Reign	8th century BC
Predecessor	Bladud
Successor	Cordelia
Issue	Goneril; Regan; Cordelia;
Father	Bladud

Leir was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain.^[1] According to Geoffrey's genealogy of the British dynasty, Leir reigned around the 8th century BC, around the time of the founding of Rome. The story was modified and retold by William Shakespeare in his Jacobean tragedy King Lear.^[2]

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