Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANEIRIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), poet kings of the Britons and reviled the bards of Maelgwn, any more than for believing that the poet and the monk were one and the same person. Both were quite distinct in their temperaments; they did not flourish in the same half of the century, and they differed as completely in the manner of their deaths as in the manner of their living. The idea that either should choose an English pseudonym while
BELI ap RHUN ap MAELGWN GWYNEDD - see RHUN ap MAELGWN GWYNEDD
CADFAN, prince He was the son of Iago ap Beli (died 613), of the line of Maelgwn Gwynedd. Beyond the fact that he ruled over Gwynedd, nothing is known of his history. His tombstone, of the early 7th century, survives in the church of Llangadwaladr, Anglesey; it bears the inscription, 'Catamanus rex sapientisimus opinatisimus (“most renowned”) omnium regum.' Legend gives him a place in the lives of S. Winifred
CUNEDDA WLEDIG (fl. 450?), British prince According to the ' Saxon Genealogies ' found in some manuscripts of ' Nennius ' and held by a number of scholars to be of the 7th century, ' Cunedag,' ancestor of Maelgwn Gwynedd, came with his eight sons from the north, i.e. Manaw Gododdin, 146 years before Maelgwn reigned, and drove the Scots (i.e. the Irish) with very great slaughter from Gwynedd, so that they never returned. Tenth century
CURIG (fl. 550?), saint The patron of Llangurig, a very large parish in the south of Arwystli; possibly, also, of Eglwys-Fair-a-Churig in Carmarthenshire and Capel Curig in Caernarfonshire. He was known as Curig Lwyd (the Blessed) and Curig Farchog (the Knight); in the late ' Buchedd Curic ' he is brought into association with Maelgwn Gwynedd. In the time of Giraldus Cambrensis, his pastoral staff, richly decorated with
CYNAN ap HYWEL (d. 1242?), prince was the son of Hywel Sais (died 1204), who was established by his father, the Lord Rhys (1132 - 1197), at St Clears, and who usually acted with Maelgwn ap Rhys in the family quarrels. Cynan is first heard of in Maelgwn's train, when, in 1210, his cousins, Rhys and Owain, captured him in their attack upon their uncle's camp at Cilcennin. His next appearance is in 1223, when, still in opposition to
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd that year with a raid on Tegeingl, in which he carried off much booty. The death of his father in November 1170 opened up a new prospect; he and his brother Rhodri attacked and slew their half-brother, Hywel ab Owain, in a battle near Pentraeth in Anglesey. In 1173 he made an onset upon another half-brother, Maelgwn ab Owain, and drove him from Anglesey, to find a refuge in Ireland. 1174 was the year
DEINIOL (d. 584), saint, founder of Bangor and first bishop in Gwynedd son of Dunawd son of Pabo Post Prydyn, of the same royal line as Urien Rheged - Dwyai, daughter of Gwallog ap Lleenog was not his mother but his second cousin. As Deiniol and Maelgwn Gwynedd were contemporaries, so were his grandfather Pabo and the sons of Cunedda Wledig. Pabo, then, must have accompanied them to Wales, not because of any loss of territory but in order to acquire more. According
ELSTAN (or ELYSTAN) GLODRYDD, founder of the fifth of the 'royal tribes' of Wales Henry II; but Einion escaped from custody. In 1163 both brothers rallied to the banner of Owain Gwynedd at Corwen, and later both were homagers of the ' lord ' Rhys ap Gruffydd; both, again, co-operated in the re-establishment of Cwm Hir abbey, 1176. Of Cadwallon's three sons, Maelgwn (who took the cross in 1188) died in 1197; his son Cadwallon died in 1234. Einion Clud had two sons: the elder, EINION
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk them, at the same time pouring threats of eternal punishment upon each. The most important of these five is Maelgwn Gwynedd. According to the Annales Cambriae Maelgwn died of the great plague in A.D. 547. The writing of the De Excidio can therefore be assigned to a period before that year. Gildas quotes from a letter sent by the Britons to the Roman Agitius to ask for help against the barbarians
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (d. 1201), prince of Deheubarth - Maelgwn, his brother, and Gwenwynwyn of Powys, so that to the end his hold on his inheritance was uncertain. His career is in a sense the prelude to those mutually destructive family feuds which brought about the final collapse of the house of Dinefwr. In 1189 he married Matilda, daughter of William de Braose, who, with two young sons, Rhys Ieuanc and Owen, survived his death on 25 July 1201. Both he
GWRTHEYRN this in 731; he had seen the lachrymose book of the Briton Gildas which was written before 547, the year in which Maelgwn Gwynedd died. There it is related (§ 23) that such a blindness fell upon all the counsellors and upon their proud ruler that instead of a garrison to defend their country they brought complete destruction upon it - because, in order to drive out the tribes from the north, they

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