 This principle was adopted by the early Christian church, and various rules developed for what the person had to do to qualify for protection and just how much protection it was.In England, King Æthelberht made the first laws regulating sanctuary in about AD 600, though Geoffrey of Monmouth in his "Historia Regum Britanniae" (c. 1136) says that the legendary pre-Saxon king Dunvallo Molmutius (4th/5th century BC) enacted sanctuary laws in the Molmutine Laws as recorded by Gildas (c. 500–570).By Norman times, there had come to be two kinds of sanctuary