Note 257 — How King Locrinvs the eldest sonne of Brutus liued vitiously, and was slaine in battaile by his wyfe Queene Guendoline, the yeere before Christ, 1064.
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Fabian varies from the other chronicles by stating the death of Locrine as in the life time of Gwendoline’s father; as she “beynge sore discontent, excyted her Fader and frendes to make warre vpon the sayd Lotryne her husbande. In the which warre, lastly, he was slayne when he reygned or ruled Loegria, or Logiers, after the concordaunce of moste wryters XX yers; And was buryed by his Fader in the cytie of Troynouant.” This might be the authority of our author for relating his burial at Troynouant as the stanza appears in the first edition.
Then was I brought to Troynouant, and there My body was enterrid as you reade: When I had raigned all out twenty yere: Lo thus I liude and thus became I deade: Thus was my crowne depriued from my heade, And all my pompe, my princely troupe and trayne, And I to earth and duste resolude againe. (1575.)