Treworlas is a hamlet west of
Veryan
Veryan (Cornish language, Cornish: ''Elerghi'') is a coastal civil parishes in England, civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village has been described as one of Cornwall's loveliest inland ...
,
Cornwall
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, England, United Kingdom, part of the
civil parish
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of
Philleigh.
[Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190''. 1961]
Henry Jenner suggested that Treworlas was named after
Gorlois
In Arthurian legend, Gorlois ( cy, Gwrlais) of Tintagel, Duke of Cornwall, is the first husband of Igraine, whose second husband is Uther Pendragon. Gorlois's name first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' (). A vas ...
, the
legendary duke of Cornwall, who he believed was a real fifth or sixth century figure, either a petty chief who was a vassal of
the Royal House of Dumnonia, or – if the leaders of the
Britons that had been displaced by the
Saxons
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
had become the kings of
Dumnonia – Gorlois may have been of the line of the original chiefs of the
Dumnonii that had been supplanted by the Britons.
References
Hamlets in Cornwall
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