King Arthur and the Holy Grail in Shropshire

King Arthur and the Holy Grail in Shropshire

The Holy Grail is a treasure a treasure which serves as an important Motif in the Arthurian Legend various Traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup dish or stone with miraculous healing powers sometimes providing Eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance is often guarded in the custody of a

Fisher king and located in a hidden Grail Castle a Grail first appears in Percival the story of The Grail an unfinished chivalric Romance by cret and Detroit around 1190. but this was always seen as a work of fiction a work of fiction nevertheless that informed the Christians Celtic and possibly other Origins

Of the Arthurian Grail in the late 12th century Robert de Baron and Joseph the arimathe portrayed The Grail as Jesus’s vessel from the last supper was Joseph of Arimathea used to catch Christ’s blood at the crucifixion thus the Holy Grail became interwoven with the legend of the Holy chalice

The Last Supper cup an idea continued in the work such as Lancelot Grail cycle and Thomas Mallory’s 15th century Le morde di Arturo there is a Celtic myth of a mystical cauldron of bran the Blessed which shares some similarities to the Grail story branz cauldron was said to possess the

Gift of restoring life and supplied a never-ending supply of food subversions of the Legends feature magical dishes or platters the test a man’s power the worthiness to rule as only a true Sovereign of correct lineage I.E Brands could possess them foreign Glastonbury became associated with King Arthur and his resting place of Avalon

In the 13th century a legend arose that Joseph of valoramathea was the founder of Glastonbury Arabi early accounts of Joseph of Glastonbury focus on the establishment of the first church in Britain but from the 15th century The Grail became a prominent part of the Legends surrounding Glastonbury interest in Glastonbury researched in

The late 19th century inspired by renewed interest in the Arthurian Legend and spiritual movements in the late 19th century John Goodwin hit a glass bowl near Glastonbury a group of his friends including Wesley Tudor Paul retrieved the cup in 1906 and promoted it as the original Holy Grail

A glossary and it’s Holy Grail Legend have since been adopted by new age and neo-pagan groups in the early 20th century aristoteric writers identified a Monsieur a stronghold of the Qatar sect in the 13th century as the Grail Castle also the 14th century Roslyn Chapel in Midlothian Scotland became attached to

The Grail legend in the mid-20th century given shropshire’s reputation for mystical lands perhaps its use of the mystical for Place marketing it should come as no surprise that there’s many stories of the Grayling Shropshire uh Whittington Castle was the seat of the fitzwarans it’s claimed that at one time the Holy

Grail was kept there following an earlier tradition and not the Grail used in The Last Supper but Jesus but the Grail used by Mary Magdalene or the Marion chalice to collect Christ’s blood after the crucifixion certainly there’s a tradition of depicting Mary with a chalice contained in blood which is linked to the

Sacrament although according to Jewish tradition it was Joseph of Arimathea who actually collected the blood another version is that Mary used it to anoint Christ with oil there was many vessels were claimed to have been the true Grail there was only one thought to have been the Chalice used by Mary

The Grail remained in Jesus’s empty tomb for nearly 400 years supposedly been found by Saint Helen when she excavated to Christ tomb in the early 4th Century it was then taken to Rome by the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great then smuggled from Rome in A.D sorry in

410 CE to save it from The Barbarians during the Middle Ages it the legend persisted that it had been taken to Safety in Britain the last airport of Roman civilization in Western Europe a story of falkley Fitz worrying is reported in the Historia riram anglicare anglicarum it appears to have been

Composed in the 13th mid-13th century probably before the death of Folk’s son at the Battle of Lewis in 1265. as he said in the author’s preface to be still alive it’s Warren focusedly mainly on Fox life in the three years between 12 1200 and 1203 uh when he was engaged in a guerrilla

Campaign against King John indeed some of the elements of the story suggest that he could have influenced the legend of Robin Hood the story opens with Falk being portrayed as descendant to the rightful heir of King Arthur his great-grandfather paint peveril and thus the Grail Legend although this is although this Arthur is

Owen uh a fifth century warrior king who defeated the Anglo-Saxons when they invaded his lands after the Romans have left there are some stories suggesting that he was actually King Arthur in fact at the time the name Arthur wasn’t common having to be right having been derived from Roman names

Although it was adopted by Irish settlers in Britain nevertheless the claim is that it was off meaning bearing British folk must repossess the white land probably the mile of sasnag of the Welsh borders though were once the land of Arthur but to accomplish this he must first recover The Grail

Falk eventually discovers the Grail in a chapel of joining his castle at Whittington asking on on his deathbed for it to be placed in alderbury uh alderbury Abbey which he had founded Fox castle at Whittington was once at the heart of the Kingdom of Paris having been captured by madog and

Maridi maridis the White Town mentioned in the white lands became Whittington Whittington is dominated by the motor of the castle could this be the real island of Avalon although the Roman city of veracomian or roxita was the original right Town it seems that the name was applied to the

New Paris class Capital One sphere a common name was abandoned in 658. a Saxon taxation document from 660. it contains a reference to a new couple of the reduced Kingdom of Paris it’s described as being near oswestry at the head of the great March this is precisely the location of

Whittington in the Welsh border marshes in the Doomsday Book Whittington was the name the Saxons that’s used for the town uh but even if Arthur can be identified as Owen Owen the claim that that Owen was was king of Paris is not substantiated all available medieval records making

The king of Ross in the Conway Valley and hence Gwyneth and not Paris however during the part of this period Ross did change hands between Paris and Gwyneth and indeed the Earl of Lincoln whilst an author Shropshire is at the traditional boundary between Gwyneth and Paris related to this story is another about

The MP Mad Jack Mitten stealing this Grail from Whittington castle for a flower girl 1920 cup was discovered inside a statue in The Grotto at hawkstone Park which some have suggested that it could be the Grail despite only being the size of an egg cup it apparently seems to be a Roman Center

Ointment jar from the first century also the material is green alibaster which was popular at the time in Palestine is it possible that the stories connect in hawkstone path to the Arthurian Legend come from Jane Hill a part of the family-owned in hawkstone sister of Lord Hill and the storm’s royalist

Hill is locating the red castle at hawkstone as the Thomas Mallory’s Arthurian red castle and juxtaposition it with the White Castle at Whittington this is added to by other sections of the Arthurian Legend which are supposedly located at hawkstone Henry the orderly built the red Castle in 1227.

Her rising out of the Plains one of the one of the cranks was ideal location occasion for a castle befitting the lord of the marshes sir Roland Hill purchased hawkstone in 1560 55 along with the land at nearby Sultan and hormand Hill was at first Protestant Lord mayor of London

And despite a brief imprisonment in the Tower of London he was no knighted by Henry VII tarquin and tarquino were said to Be Giants who built and inhabited the red Castle which lies within the slopes of the park the legend is further enhanced by the Giant’s well which is reached through an

Arched passageway at the foot of the cliff together with about 40 feet of the castle tower is and is how you note of solid rock Jones Brothers cicadas captured Sergey Wayne so Lancelot and satristum of the round table set out to rescue their friend they encountered cicadas carrying

Abound and tied across his saddle after the legendary fight sir Lancelot killed the giant at kilgard near Western under red Castle Church fleeing Circle Wayne Legend has it that King Arthur addressed his knights in the caves contained within the sparkland there is a ledger that one of the caves of hawkstone Park

Was the burial ground of King Arthur through a number of iterations it’s probable that Hill’s recounting of the stories which influenced Charlotte Byrne in her retelling of this story certainly even in the 18th century tourists were flocking to hawkstone making it one of Britain’s most popular tourist destinations

Dr Johnson visited and was impressed remarking on the awfulness of its Shades and the horror of his precipices could this be an early example of destination marketing a process which is also apparent in Shropshire today with the sale of hawkstone Park to the Barclay Brothers the Arthurian Legend has been resurrected

And forms a part of the tourist attractions of the hawkstone park Follies the modern interest links the Marion Grail via roxita to Whittington castle and finally to the red castle at hawkstone compelling although somewhat fanciful those this sequence is there is a stained glass window by Richard and Evans in the nearby St

Luke’s Church in hodnat depicting a golden chalice unfortunately the church was damaged by people hunting for the grade grailed said to have been too shadowy Italians in black suits indeed Shropshire antiquarian Thomas Wright is believed to have married into the fault fitzwoman’s descendants and discovered Clues to the grail’s location

Finding it then reared it in hawkstone park the stained glass window depicts Matthew Mark Luke and John John is holding a chalice said to contain a snake or Dragon which represents poison now this is an allegory to the legend of the poison Chalice of wine given to him

At the Temple of Diana which he blessed before drinking and thus suffered no harm but the hot depiction of Saint John does not show a snake in the chalice and the same to himself looks feminine is this a clue to Mary Magdalene and the Marion chalice apparently the window was designed to

Donate it to the church by Thomas Wright further more furthermore Canon Reginald Haber Heber sorry who went on to become the bishop of Calcutta had written about the link between corkstone and the old thorian legend in the early 19th century In recent years these myths have been developed by author and former BBC journalist Graeme Phillips and indeed he has a channel on this platform should you wish to follow them up I have to declare something of a Prejudice I have towards Graham and and I apologize to him

It’s just having been brought up in rural Shropshire and despite feeling more a part of Wales or Liverpool or Manchester we used to have the Midlands television and Graham has a Warwickshire could be a Birmingham accent but he has one of those accents that’s I associate from a very young age

With people who are untrustworthy and I’m sorry Greg however learned what you’re doing might be it’s your accent I can’t cope or your accent and your mannerisms but I don’t want to put anybody else off Graham by all means listen to him now he claims that the Grail was removed

From old debris Priory uh buy a further descendant to Robert Vernon sorry buy a further descendant and Robert Vernon recovered it in the late 16th century eventually it was hidden in auction Park a Graeme tracked down this Grail being kept by The Langham family in rugby descendants of the Shropshire

Businessman Rob Walter langman who claimed to have found a cup hidden in hawkstone park in 1920. The Chalice was authenticated by the British museum as being in all possibility first century Roman a Vale Cruces Abbey near Van goghachlan was founded in 1201 by Prince madok up Griffith Griffith

And the white monks of the sisterian order its name Valley of the Cross refers to the 9th century to the nearby 9th century pillar of elzig amongst at the Abbey were responsible for writing some of the early stories of King Arthur and now an inscription on the pillar of

Housing close by the air base suggests that Arthur called Paris a Graham insists that rocksitter was the seats of the seat of the Paris Kingdom at that time so King Arthur is speculated to have been the king of the Volta Tony tribe from veraconin or roxita which became known as Camelot

And now he married Guinevere or granhumara from the Ulster Street hillfort or Kaya org found in Arthurian Legends the father of grenavy was known as Grogan so well there’s certainly a connection isn’t it she is said to have retired to white ladies Priory near Wolverhampton of course gwenifer in the legend didn’t

Did retire to an honorary following a affair with Lancelot although Arthurian Legend holds that she is buried in Glastonbury and currently the oswestry hill Fort is subject to the planning inquiry former mpo in Paterson as that was asked to support those objection to the develops but declined on grounds of principle

Maintaining no shropshire’s tradition for elective principle politicians going back at least as far back as Mad Jack mitten Ed Graham also claims that Excalibur an Arty’s body may be found in the birth pool of bastards therefore the birth ball is supposedly the location of the Lady of the Lake

In the lab Legend Excalibur was thrown in the lake by gwenevere following her affair with Lance adult lot and retirement to the white ladies Abbey a white ladies being a traditional reference to water nymphs the birth Hill is said to be the true Avalon and not Gladstone group tour as

Graham wrote in the Oxford Union University Library there is a poem from the Dark Ages which refers to the Knights of rocksitter who who were buried at the churches of Basa and when you think about anywhere in Shropshire that sounds similar you think of past Church there is a place that matches the

Description just outside the village and Earthworks known as The Birds which which were two islands in a lake obviously the lake is now gone Phillips also suggests that the king’s tomb might be located in another place a country in the lane in a nearby Village called Birch Grove where evidence of an

Old chapel was found back in the 1930s A Birch Grove is one of the four Iron Age Mears in close proximity to each other near bus Church another being the birth pool alternatively Arthur’s body was carried there by barge along the river seven are passing through Gringo playing close

To welshpool certainly bereave and Grace lies between the river seven and River Camelot and bastard she’s not far from the river seven so at least this party’s plausible oh Graham Phillips resurrects the Welsh myth the Arthur’s crown jewels are held at Wenlock Priory following Arthur having taken Refuge there indeed it is

Said to have been a traditional refuge for The Treasure of British Kings our whilst a magic cauldron was said to contain treasure in a special War and sword is said to have been hidden close to the summit of karadic although this Legend is related to Cradock himself it was seem to suggest

An alternative Arthur was apparently saved by a lion on wixel Moss in the Mila sussnake his last battle being four to three the grace which I assume to be the reason welshpool and not that in cardigan despite the cardigan ones connections to Merlin not least as this ties in with

The mention of the uh grung gringog plane in this Legend his last battle was in The Legend his last battle was said to be a kamlan which has traditionally been interpreted as Cornwall of evil cumbrian but the river Camelot runs through Southwest Shropshire and indeed reader Grace creating a gap through the

Mountains of Wales providing a route to Roxton of course this is the very route that gwenville reeking up shanking up Men’s mower would have taken when creating the beaking indeed the River cam lad actually forms the border between England and Wales at this point the stone in which Excalibur was held is

Said to be at Mitchell’s fold Stone Circle in South West Shropshire Williams stuckley the 18th century antiquarian surveyed this circle and reported that the locals claimed it was the place where Arthur drew the sword from the stone however the story of The Sword in the Stone comes from the French fiction

And cannot be found with any within any Welsh or British myths a Graham was also speculated that Arthur was the ruler of Shropshire in the 5th Century was known as owie Owen thanks uh Fant Gwen and this links the legend back to the White Castle of rittington and indeed rocksitter

His name would have been known in any battle as the bear and any old English this word would have been translated as asked Owen’s father’s battle name would have been known as terrible head dragon or Earth pendrago in Welsh remarkably similar to Uther Pendragon who was Arthur’s farmer father in the Arthurian Legend

When Owen sent Gwen died at around 520 CE similar way War appears to have broken out between his rival heirs his son couldn’t glasses from rocksitter and his nephew Mount clonus the dragon from Gwyneth at the Battle of maysfield near oswestry in 642 CE and Nobles including

Clinton said to be the last descendants of King Arthur to reign in the Welsh marshes defeated the army of King Oswald of northumbria oh Oswald Was Defeated dismembered and his head put on a pole for a year the dog in the lane Pub in Astley claims to have been built around a watering

Hole which was patrolled by King Arthur and his men I whilst the legend of the round table is actually an oblique reference to meal roundabout separating the commuter villager based in Hill from Shrewsbury although I have to admit that this reference to the meal roundabout is one that I’ve made up myself in

2017 a cave supposedly used by the nemes Templar had been discovered by a farmer in Shropshire behind a rabbit hole they’re known as the Canton cave so they’re in bedbury close to Wolverhampton are there however there’s nothing that links them to the Knights Templar and they’re mostly probably simply another

Folly like the hawkstone caves there is also a link to Shakra Hall in Staffordshire which is said to have had a cryptic clue on the shepherd’s Monument as to the true nature of the Grail and now despite the quantity and suppose of supposedly connections to King Arthur and mcgrail there are similar

Connections all over the UK many with much more convincing claims always they’re reported as being the real Arthur or the real Grail but never is it questioned if there was a real author or a real Grail as despite the quantity of the evidence there’s literature to truly substantiate it either

What I can say is that story of Arthur arose out of the chaos of the Roman Retreat from Britain but it’s not mentioned by name for another century the authorian Legends are split into pre-galph a freedian texts written before Jeffrey monmouth’s work now beginning with gilders the exquido britanide translated to the

Ruins of Britain written around 540 then post galphridian texts meaning post Godfrey are those under the influence of Godly Godfrey’s highly embellished book uh what is striking regardless of when written there is no continuity between the Welsh accounts could it be that there is more than one

Arthur or that the Welsh Arthur is also fictional within the pre-gal freedian tradition it is and scholars believe that he comes from the kingdom of powers due to the English influence the history covers all of Britain rather than just Wales possibly providing between the Welsh link to the wider British myth

Whilst the true Arthurian Story begins with Crayton Detroit represented as Zenith in Welsh that’s Welsh in French interest and indeed novels about the Arthurian Legend which is Thomas Mallory’s Mort Dart tour 16 1469 to 70. pushes the temporal boundaries of this Legend now what I can say is that some of these

Legends do appear to have some age to them some of these legends from shropshires as well they appear to have some importance to the marches during the Dark Ages especially the area around US History which changed hands between English and Welsh many times even the story of wild edrick has some

Resonance with the Arthurian Legend so I think we have to conclude that if anywhere has a claim to Arthur why not interruption together [Applause]

In recent years the Arthurian myths have been developed by author and former BBC journalist Graham Phillips.
He claims that the Grail was removed from Alberbury Priory, by a further descendant, Robert Vernon recovered it in the late 16th century.
Eventually it was hidden in Hawkstone Park.
Graham tracked down this grail being kept by the Langham family in Rugby.
Valle Crucis Abbey near Llangollen was founded in 1201 by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd and the white monks of the Cistercian order.
Its Latin name (Valley of the Cross) refers to the nearby ninth-century Pillar of Eliseg.
Monks at the Abbey were also responsible for writing some of the early stories of King Arthur.
An inscription on Eliseg Pillar close by the Abbey suggests that King Arthur ruled Powys.
Graham insists the Wroxeter was the seat of the Powys kingdom at that time.
King Arthur is speculated to have been a king of the Votadini tribe, from Viroconium (Wroxeter), which has become known as Camelot.
He married, Guinevere (Ganhumara), from the Oswestry Hill Fort (or Caer Ogyrfan).
In the Arthurian legends the father of Guinevere was known as Gogyrfan.
She is said to have retired to White Ladies Priory, near Wolverhampton.
Of course, Guinevere in the legend did retire to a nunnery following her affair with Lancelot.
Although the Arthurian legend holds that she is buried at Glastonbury Abbey.
Graham also claims that Excalibur and Arthur’s body may be found in the Berth Pool at Baschurch.
Therefore, the Berth Pool is supposedly the location of the Lady of the Lake.
In the legend Excalibur was thrown in the lake by Guinevere following her affair with Lancelot and retirement to the White Ladies Abbey.
White Lady being a traditional reference to water nymphs.