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(King of Gwynedd) Maelgwn ap Cadwallon GWYNEDD #77027
ABT 473 - ABT 547
AKA: Maelgwn Gwynedd
Personal Information
- TITLE: King of Gwynedd
- BIRTH: ABT 473
- DEATH: ABT 547
Notes
Maelgwn Gwynedd was King of Gwynedd during the early 6th century. Surviving records suggest he held a pre-eminent position among the Brythonic kings in Wales and their allies in the "Old North" along the Scottish coast. Maelgwn was a generous supporter of Christianity, funding the foundation of churches throughout Wales and even far beyond the bounds of his own kingdom. Nonetheless, his principal legacy today is the scathing account of his behavior recorded in De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae by Gildas, who considered Maelgwn a usurper and reprobate. The son of Cadwallon Lawhir ap Einion and great-grandson of Cunedda, Maelgwn was buried on Ynys Seiriol (now known as Puffin Island in English), off the eastern tip of Anglesey, having died of the "yellow plague"; quite probably the arrival of Plague of Justinian in Britain.
Parents
Family 1 :
_Cunedda ap Edern GWYNEDD _
| (0386 - 0460)
_Einion Yrth ap Cunedda GWYNEDD ___|
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_Cadwallon Lawhir ap Einion GWYNEDD _|
| (0460 - 0534) |
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| |_Prawst ferch Deithlyn of BRITAIN _|
| (0440 - ....) |
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|--Maelgwn ap Cadwallon GWYNEDD
| (0473 - 0547)
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|_Meddyf ferch Maeldaf of UNKNOWN ____|
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