General Notes

Source Information:
Hanna, Charles A. The Scotch-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America Vol.1 New York, NY: G. P. Putnam, 1902.

THE SCOTCH-IRISH OR THE SCOT IN NORTH BRITAIN, NORTH IRELAND, AND NORTH AMERICA
CHAPTER XV THE SCOTS AND PICTS

11. AEneas reigned over the Latins three years; Ascanius, thirty-threeyears; after whom Silvius reigned twelve years, and Posthumus thirty-nineyears: the former, from whom the kings of Alba are called Silvan, was brother to Brutus, who governed Britain at the time Eli, the high-priest, judged Israel, and when the ark of the covenant was taken by, a foreign people. But Posthumus, his brother, reigned among the Latins. [Fabulous.] 12. After an interval of not less than eight hundred years, came the Picts, and occupied the Orkney Islands[?]: whence they laid waste many regions, and seized those on the left-hand side of Britain, where they still remain, keeping possession of a third part of Britain to this day. 13. Long after this, the Scots arrived in Ireland from Spain.[?] . . .

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Source:  GEDCOM:  Ancestry.com.  Jonathan Smith, "BSJTK Smith Family Tree", 2003


Title: , King of the Britons, "The Trojan"


Brutus was expelled from Italy for killing his Father when he was 15.  He accidentally shot his father with an arrow while hunting.  The Trojans accepted Brutus as their leader; he reigned for 23 years.

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Source:  GEDCOM:  Ancestry.com.   Larry Chesebro' , "CHESEBRO' Genealogy@RootsWeb", 2003


1. Because Brutus had killed his father, he was expelled from Italy returned to the Aegean area and organized the enslaved Trojans, Lydians and Maeonians. The Greeks were defeated and Troy was recaptured. With the recapture of Troy in 1149 the list of Sea Powers of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean began. According to the terms of the treaty with the Greeks Brutus migrated, with all who wished to follow him, via the Mediterranean into Britain. (Compendium of World History. Vol. I, P. 454)

2. Brutus with a large part of the Trojans migrated to "the Great White Island" (an early name for Britain due to its chalk cliffs). Tradition says that on the way to the "White Island" Brutus came across Four other Trojan colonies upon the coast of Spain and persuaded them to join him.
At Totnes on the River Dart [in England], twelve miles inland from Torbay (the oldest seaport in South Devon) is an historical stone that commemorates the coming of Brutus to Britain. (Cir., 1103 B.C.) The stone is known as the "Brutus Stone," the tradition being that the Trojan Prince set foot upon it when he first landed. The Welsh records state that three tribes of his countrymen received Brutus and his company as brethern and proclaimed Brutus King at a national convention of the whole island. His three sons, born after his arrival in Britain were named after the three tribes -- Locrinus, Camber, and Alban. Brutus' name heads the role in all the genealogies of the British kings, preserved as faithfully as were those of the kings of Israel and Judah. (Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets. P. 65-66)

In Britain, then called Albion, Brutus renamed Albion after himself, Britain, and founded what is now London naming it "Caer Troia", "Troynovant", "Troja Nova" or New Troy later named Trinovantum and finally Londinum by the Romans.