pendragon
noun
the supreme leader: the title of certain ancient British chiefs.
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Tennyson says that Arthur's helmet had for crest a golden dragon. ... they saw The dragon of the great pendragonship.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer