Capoir is a mythic monarch in English folklore, from Britain. Capoir is a legendary king of the Britons attested in the Geoffrey of Monmouth regnal tradition and later vernacular witnesses. He is presented in regnal lists as succeeding Pir and being succeeded by his son Digueillus (Eliguele) and is dated in one modern summary to 119 BC.
No supernatural or mythic birth narrative is recorded for Capoir in the provided sources. He appears exclusively within Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical regnal lists and later compilations derived from that Galfridian tradition; the Middle English Castleford's Chronicle records a vernacular witness to the same tradition rather than an independent origin tale. The material treats Capoir as a named ruler inserted into a continuous sequence of legendary British monarchs rather than as the subject of an origin myth or cosmogonic narrative.
The available texts offer no sustained physical description of Capoir. In the Middle English Castleford's Chronicle his name appears in the form 'Capaire' and the poem uses a brief epithet calling him 'a strong and fair knight,' which implies an idealized chivalric appearance and reputation, but no further details of dress, heraldry, age, or iconography are supplied in the cited excerpts.
Sources attribute to Capoir only the ordinary roles and actions of a regnal figure in chronicle tradition: accession to the throne, dynastic succession to his son Digueillus/Eliguele, and an epithet suggesting martial reputation and fairness. No specific deeds, laws, battles, miraculous acts, or supernatural powers are recorded for him in the provided materials; his depiction is literary-historical rather than the depiction of an active supernatural agent.
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Community Record
- [1]Capoir. Wikipedia: Capoirwiki
- [2]Wikidata: Capoir. Wikidata entry for Capoirother
- [3]Castleford's Chronicle (Middle English verse witness). Mary Jones / Geoffrey regnal lists and Castleford reference (Middle English witness referencing 'Capaire')literary
- [4]Geoffrey of Monmouth's Kings of Britain (regnal lists). Geoffrey-derived regnal lists as compiled on Mary Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia pagesliterary
- [5]Eineid Capoir ap Cerwyd (genealogical/catalog entry). Genealogical catalog entry illustrating use of the name in patronymic listingsother
- [6]Family group / pedigree pages citing Geoffrey-derived lists. Family history pages that incorporate Geoffrey-derived regnal namesother