Capoir was a legendary king of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He came to power in 119BC.

He was preceded by Pir and succeeded by his son Digueillus.

Castleford's Chronicle

Capoir is also mentioned in the Middle English verse chronicle Castleford's Chronicle, where his name appears in the form "Capaire". Castleford's Chronicle belongs to the tradition of Brut chronicles, and much of its early legendary-history material draws on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae; the Capoir passage is therefore a Middle English verse witness to the Galfridian tradition rather than an independent historical account.

The poem names Capaire as the son and successor of King Pir, describes him as a strong and fair knight, and says that he was succeeded by his son Eliguele, corresponding to Geoffrey's Digueillus:

A literal modern English rendering is:

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