Historia Brittonum
Cunobelinus's memory was preserved in British legend and beyond. In the early 9th century Historia Brittonum, Cunobeline appears as "Bellinus" son of "Minocannus" and is described as a British king in the time of Julius Caesar. The names of Cunobeline and his son Adminius likely became corrupt due to a series of scribal errors in the transmission of the name from Suetonius' "Life of Caligula" to Orosius's "Historia adversus Paganos", the latter of which was a primary source for the author of the "Historia Brittonum":