Ambrosius Aurelianus
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Natanleod was frequently identified with Ambrosius Aurelianus. Edward Gibbon, in "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", refers to this identification with scepticism: "By the unanimous, though doubtful, conjecture of our antiquarians, Ambrosius is confounded with Natanleod, who lost his own life and five thousand of his subjects in a battle against Cerdic, the West Saxon."