The second son was called Aurelius, and his surname Ambrosius.

After the death of Vortimer, Ambrosius, a Briton, though of Roman descent, invested with the command over his countrymen, and endeavoured, not without success, to unite them in their resistance against the Saxons.

Ambrosia, ii.; v. Ambrosius, King, ii. America, ii.

Johann Ambrosius Bach, the father of "the Father of Modern Music," had a twin brother, Johann Cristoph.

His mother died when he was nine years old, but with Bachic haste his father remarried; the new wife was a widow and seemed to be in the habit of it, for she buried J. Ambrosius two months after the wedding.

It was on October 17, 1707, that, according to the record, "the respectable Herr J.S. Bach, the surviving lawful son of the late most respectable Herr Ambrosius Bach, the famous town-organist and musician of Eisenach, was married to the virtuous maiden Maria Barbara Bach, the youngest surviving unmarried daughter of the late very respectable and famous artist Herr Johann Michael Bach.

The ancient British documents give us the founder of the latter, namely, Emrys, or Ambrosius, while we are left in ignorance as to who raised the pile of Cyfrangon.

Geoffrey of Monmouth (1150) ascribes its origin to the magic of Merlin who, at the instance of Aurelius Ambrosius, directed the invasion of Ireland under Uther Pendragon to obtain possession of the standing stones called the "Giants' Dance at Killaraus."

About 1550, in Speed's History of Britain and Stow's Annals, Merlin and the invasion of Ireland are dropped and sole credit given to Ambrosius for the erection.

Arish Mel Arne Arnold, Dr. Arthur Arundell of Wardour Ashe Ashmansworth Asser Athelhampton Athelstan Athelwold Aubrey, John Aurelius Ambrosius Austen, Jane Avebury Avebury, Lord Avington Avon (Bristol) Avon (Southern)

He was the eldest of the three sons of Constantine, his two brothers being Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon.

Aurelius Ambrosius succeeded Vortigern, and was himself succeeded by his younger brother, Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur.

From this latter it was learned that the owner of the house two hundred years ago had been a silk weaver by the name of Flemming Ambrosius Wolff.

In the first of these we see that in the year 715, the king's majordomus Ambrosius interferes "in Curte a Domini Regis" at Siena, in opposition to the local bishop and gastald; and in the second we find the royal notary Gunthram forbidding a fresh examination of witnesses "in Curte Regia Senensis."

JOHANNA AMBROSIUS (1854-)

Before the year 1895 the name of the German peasant, Johanna Ambrosius, was hardly known, even within her own country.

The real Merlin is said to have been a bard of the fifth century, and is supposed to have served the British chief Ambrosius Aurelianus, and then King Arthur.

King Constans, who drove Hengist from England, was the father of three sons,Constantine, Aurelius Ambrosius, and Uther Pendragon.