Elegost of Rhudaur

Elegost (1347-1355) was the last King of Rhudaur.Though of mixed descend he was of high Dúnadan heritage and related by blood to the royal line.His claims for the crown neverthless were not undisputed.After his death several Rhudauran Lords strofe for the Kingship, including Elegosts son Beregor and his descendants.However at this time the Lord Broggha, a man of mixed Dúnadan-Hillman heritage, who claimed to descend from Elegost but whose rightful claims were denied by the Kings of Arthedain and Cardolan, had seized the throne and there never again was a King of Rhudaur who was acklowledged or fully supported by the Dúnadan nobility of the other Dúnadan Kingdoms, and Rhudaur was ruled by Kings of the Hillmen until the fall of Angmar and Rhudaur, which ended as a Kingdom with it's last ruler Bhaltair.

Notes:
Original form in MERP:Elagost.

Elagost however seems to be a corrupted form or misspelling.So here the name was replaced with a corrected Sindarin Form.