1) Arthurian character 
King Claudas is a fictional Frankish king and an opponent to King Arthur, Lancelot, and Bors in Arthurian literature. His kingdom is named `Terre Deserte`, or `Land Laid Waste`, so called because of the destruction Uther Pendragon had wrought there. Claudas appears as the Round Table`s adversary in Perlesvaus, the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cyc...