#croceamors

King Lud of Britain, a "warlike man...magnificent in his feasts and entertainments" (The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Book III, pg 61) gave his name to his favorite city: Kaerlud, later Caerlondon, later London. His son (whom he seems to have named after having passing out from drinking while watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show) Androgeus was made Duke of Kent, and his brother Prince Nennius became a famous military commander, in charge of Canterbury's regiments.

Around 55 B.C., Julius Caesar was done invading Gaul and had set his sights on Britain. After an unpleasant exchange in which he hailed King Lud as a brother, descended as their peoples both were from Aeneas of Troy, and offered to save him from the barbarism and ignorance into which his kingdom and culture had clearly devolved, and King Lud told Caesar to go fly a kite, they went to war (The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth). 

The Princes Nennius and Androgeus led their troops against Caesar's personal cohort, and Nennius fought his way through the fray to Julius himself, presumably grabbing him and screaming "GET OVER HERE."

Caesar was wielding Crocea Mors, his sun-gold sword of instant death (that's apparently how it got that name) (The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth). Prince Nennius swung, and Caesar brought up his shield to catch the blow, then turned and struck Nennius "with all his might upon the helmet" (The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Book III, pg 65). Nennius was stunned for a moment and Caesar swung again, intending to decapitate the Prince of Britain. Nennius blocked just in time with his shield and Crocea Mors lodged deep in the wood.

Caesar struggled to free his legendary sword, but it wouldn't come out of Prince Nennius' shield. At that moment, a rush of troops from both sides separated the two statesmen (The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth).

Prince Nennius saw a pretty good opportunity, and chucked his own sword, which so far as we know didn't have a cool name like Yellow Death, and wrenched Crocea Mors out of his shield. Whereupon he "made haste to employ it against the enemy. Whomsoever he struck with it, he either cut off his head or left him wounded without hopes of recovery." (The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Book III, pg. 65)

The Britons won the battle, but Nennius died of the head wound Caesar had inflicted fifteen days later. He was buried with Crocea Mors.