Cloten

Lear's royal progeny is carried by Geoffrey through six or seven further generations until its extinction amid the fatal strife of King Gorboduc's sons, Ferrex and Porrex.

With the deaths of these fierce warriors a new dynasty of the same Trojan strain was inaugurated by Malmutius Donwallo, son of Cloten, Duke of Cornwall, a lawgiver after the pattern of Numa Pompilius of Rome.

Malmutius's descendants supplied the throne of Britain with brave occupants for ten or more centuries.

His line, which included King Lud, the renovator of London, survived the Roman occupation and became feudatory to the Roman Empire.