How much of King Arthur's story is based on fact?

This leader's name was Arthur or something similar -- perhaps a Roman variant such as Artus or Artorius. He was not a king. Instead, he was the 5th Century version of a general. read more

But King Arthur facts reveal that the most likely burial place of King Arthur is Glastonbury Abbey in Glastonbury, a small town of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants in Somerset, England, approximately 20 miles south of the city of Bristol. read more

King Arthur as we know him today is mainly drawn from Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical 12th-century book Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), in which he wrote the first life story of Arthur. read more