On the third night, at the third hour, fire fell suddenly
from heaven, and totally burned the castle. Vortigern, the daughter of
Hengist, his other wives, and all the inhabitants, both men and women,
miserably perished: such was the end of this unhappy king, as we find
written in the life of St. Germanus.
*The Tobias of Ptolemy
47. Others assure us, that being hated by all the people of Britain, for
having received the Saxons, and being publicly charged by St. Germanus
and the clergy in the sight of God, he betook himself to flight; and,
that deserted and a wanderer, he sought a place of refuge, till broken
hearted, he made an ignominious end.
Some accounts state, that the earth opened and swallowed him up, on the
night his castle was burned; as no remains were discovered the following
morning, either of him, or of those who were burned with him.
He had three sons: the eldest was Vortimer, who, as we have seen,
fought four times against the Saxons, and put them to flight; the second
Categirn, who was slain in the same battle with Horsa; the third was
Pascent, who reigned in the two provinces Builth and Guorthegirnaim,(1)
after the death of his father. These were granted him by Ambrosius, who
was the great king among the kings of Britain.
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