Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CYNDEYRN, saint
KENTIGERN (518? - 603), saint, the founder of Glasgow He appears in the Welsh genealogies as Cyndeyrn, son of Owain ab Urien and grandson of Urien (of) Rheged; Owain is an important figure in the romances included in the ' Red Book of Hergest,' and he and his father, Urien, figure in the early Welsh poems which recount the struggles of the North British princes against Hussa the son of Ida - see the articles Llywarch Hen and Taliesin. The family
ASAPH (fl. c. 600), reputed founder of the see of St Asaph singled out as his successor and who was accordingly consecrated bishop in his stead, when he returned to Strathclyde. Whatever may underlie this story, it is noteworthy that there is no local commemoration of Cyndeyrn, while Asaph's name is preserved in Llanasa, Pantasa, and Ffynnon Asa, all in northern Flintshire. His festival day is 1 May; the Breviary of Aberdeen has an office for him. Nothing is
DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814 - 1867), musician was an excellent composer of anthems. In the Bethesda eisteddfod, 1852, he won the prize and medal for his anthem ' Mawl a'th erys Di yn Seion,' to which he had attached the pseudonym Cyndeyrn, by which he was known for the rest of his life. He was a prize-winner at Bethesda in 1853 and again in the eisteddfod held at Denbigh in 1860. The anthems were published in Y Cerddor Cymraeg and Greal y Corau
CYNDEYRN - see DAVIES, ROBERT
CYNDEYRN Saint - see KENTIGERN, Saint

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