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It has been thought that the name "Arthur" derived from the Roman "Artorius" although most scholars claim that the name "Arthur" is unknown in Britain prior to the late-sixth century.

There was one notable exception:, Lucius Artorius Castus, who lived and fought in Britain in the late second-century.

The name "Arthur" started cropping up among late-sixth-century and seventh-century Irish migrants to Wales and Scotland That people would suddenly start naming sons "Arthur" and literature recording "although he was no Arthur" (the reference to Arthur in Y Gododdin, ca.

600), indicates that the name Arthur name had become fairly common by this time.

The Historia Brittonum (ca. 800),15 which was probably compiled by, rather than written by, Nennius, is the oldest work to record legends of Arthur.

By the beginning of the ninth century, Arthur was known as both a dux bellorum and a miles ("