Vortigern

That ‘give her up’ was rather a fateful line from an old play called Vortigern, you see.

Slaying is Such Sweet Sorrow Patricia Harwin 2005

Kemble produced at Drury Lane Theatre a bombastic tragedy in blank verse entitled 'Vortigern' under the pretence that it was by Shakespeare, and had been recently found among the manuscripts of the dramatist that had fallen into the hands of the Irelands.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

College MS. of 1641, Arthur has already disappeared from the list of possible subjects, a list which contains thirty-eight suggestions of names from British or Saxon history, such as Vortigern, Edward the

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

William Henry Ireland (who sometimes took his father's name Samuel), the forger of the pretended Shakespearian play "Vortigern," produced at

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

Mid the green alders, by the Mulla's shore; but a learned Antiquarian of my acquaintance has given it as his opinion that it resembles Spenser's minor poems as nearly as "Vortigern" and

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Hollick also uses characters who were known to exist, like Vortigern who supposedly ruled the Britons for some time and was purportedly the one to invite the Germanic forces from the mainland to defend the Britons against the Scots and Picts.

“The Kingmaking: Book On of the Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy” by Helen Hollick (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

Vortigern seemed to realize this just now and stopped Artorus from saying anything further.

2010 March 10 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

And no one had ever seen him that angry before, not even Vortigern.

2009 October 14 « The BookBanter Blog 2009

Hollick also uses characters who were known to exist, like Vortigern who supposedly ruled the Britons for some time and was purportedly the one to invite the Germanic forces from the mainland to defend the Britons against the Scots and Picts.

2010 February 19 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

And no one had ever seen him that angry before, not even Vortigern.

Wyrd Progress Update VI « The BookBanter Blog 2009