I stood next to this grave marker for King Arthur and Guinevere in 2011 when I first found Glastonbury Abbey in the middle of Glastonbury accidentally because of where I parked that day. I didn't know of the existence even of the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. Because of King Arthur, Glastonbury Abbey was the wealthiest Catholic Abbey in all of England until King Henry VIII drew and quartered the head of the Abbey and stole all their money for the crown then. This likely led to his breaking away from the Catholic Church which began the Church of England under the Crown of King HenryVIII which we see today at Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. The Elizabethan Era was brought into being by King HenryVIII's daughter Queen Elizabeth I and with Queen Elizabeth II we see a 70 year reign the longest in History so far of any King or Queen down through History.
The Reason the Glastonbury Abbey was so wealthy until King Henry VIII was that people knew King Arthur of the Knights of the Round Table and Guinevere were buried there. So, people came from all over Europe and the world to pay their respects to King Arthur who first unified all of England under one king with his knights of the Round Table. Merlin and Guinevere were real people too in British History.
I presently believe that after Merlin was Padmasambhava in India, Afghanistan and Nepal and Tibet and brought Buddhism to King Trisongdetsun of Tibet that when he was older he came back to England where he was from as a Mahasiddha in Asia to find and put King Arthur on the throne of England which gives England such an Amazing history all the way to today!
As Mahasiddha Padmasambhava, Merlin would have been precognitive of all the way to today where we now live in 2022! So, he knew full well the good his actions would bring in time.
By God's Grace
begin quote from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey#King_Arthur's_tomb
King Arthur's tomb[edit]
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In 1184, a great fire at Glastonbury destroyed the monastic buildings.[11] Reconstruction began almost immediately and the Lady Chapel, which includes the well, was consecrated in 1186.[35][36] There is evidence that, in the 12th century, the ruined nave was renovated enough for services while the great new church was being constructed. Parts of the walls of the aisle and crossing having been completed by 1189, progress then continued more slowly.[37]
Pilgrim visits had fallen and in 1191 the alleged discovery of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's tomb in the cemetery provided fresh impetus for visiting Glastonbury. A contemporaneous, though not an eyewitness, account was given by Giraldus Cambrensis in his De principis instructione ("Instruction of a Prince", c. 1193) and recollected in his Speculum Ecclesiae, c. 1216[38][39] according to which the abbot, Henry de Sully, commissioned a search, discovering at the depth of 16 feet (5 m) a massive hollowed oak trunk containing two skeletons. Above it, under the covering stone, according to Giraldus, was a lead cross with the unmistakably specific inscription Hic jacet sepultus inclitus rex Arturius in insula Avalonia ("Here lies interred the famous King Arthur on the Isle of Avalon").[40]
According to Giraldus, the digging for the tomb was prompted by the intelligence obtained by Henry II from an "aged British (Welsh) bard" (Latin: historico cantore Britone audierat antiquo).[41][42] On the other hand, Ralph of Coggeshall writing somewhat later, states more prosaically that they came upon the older tomb by chance while removing the earth to bury a certain monk who had expressed strong desire to be buried there.[38][43] Both Giraldus and Ralph say that the spot lay in between two pyramids in the abbey. William of Malmesbury does not refer to Arthur's tomb but elaborates on the pyramids of varying height, upon which were statues with inscriptions "Her Sexi, and Bliserh ... Pencrest, Bantomp, Pinepegn, etc."[44]
Historians today generally dismiss the authenticity of the find, attributing it to a publicity stunt performed to raise funds to repair the Abbey, which was mostly burned in 1184.[45] William of Malmesbury's history of the English kings stated "Arthur's grave is nowhere seen, whence antiquity of fables still claims that he will return"[46] and his work "On the Antiquity of the Glastonese Church"[25]—larded as it is with known and suspected pious forgeries—nowhere mentions a connection between the abbey and either Arthur's grave or Avalon. The fact that the search for Arthur's body is connected to Henry II and Edward I, both kings who fought major Welsh wars, has had scholars suggest that propaganda may have played a part as well.[47] Gerald, a constant supporter of royal authority, in his account of the discovery clearly aims to destroy the idea of the possibility of King Arthur's messianic return: "Many tales are told and many legends have been invented about King Arthur and his mysterious ending. In their stupidity the British [i.e. Welsh, Cornish and Bretons] people maintain that he is still alive. Now that the truth is known, I have taken the trouble to add a few more details in this present chapter. The fairy-tales have been snuffed out, and the true and indubitable facts are made known, so that what really happened must be made crystal clear to all and separated from the myths which have accumulated on the subject."[48]
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