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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
CADFAN GWYNEDD - gweler HUGHES, HUGH
CADWALADR (bu farw 1172), prince He was the third son of Gruffudd ap Cynan (died 1137) and his wife Angharad. He is first heard of in 1136, when, on the death of Richard Fitz Gilbert, lord of Ceredigion, his elder brother, Owain Gwynedd, and he invaded the province and took the five northern castles, including Aberystwyth. At the end of the year they returned with a large force of mail-clad knights and foot soldiers and swept
CADWALADR (bu farw 664), prince He was the son of Cadwallon ap Cadfan. On his father's death in 633, Gwynedd fell under the power of an adventurer, Cadafael ap Cynfedw, whose rule seems to have ended with his ignominious retreat from the battlefield of Winwed Field in 654. Cadwaladr then came to his own, but fell a victim to the great pestilence of 664. Uneventful as was his reign, he became a great figure in later bardic lore
CASNODYN (fl. 1320-40), poet The earliest Glamorgan poet whose compositions appear in the manuscripts. He also sang in Gwynedd and Ceredigion. It is not altogether certain which are his poems. The 'Red Book of Hergest' attributes poems to him which, according to The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, are the work of Gruffudd ap Maredudd, and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, assigns to Casnodyn the awdl to Ieuan, abbot of
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer
CHRISTINA Second wife of Owain Gwynedd, was the daughter of Gronw (died 1124), son of Owain ab Edwin and, accordingly, her husband's first cousin. The marriage was not recognized by the Church, and Becket and Alexander III, not long before Owain's death, urged a separation. But the prince, whose affection for Christina is manifest, was obdurate and, in consequence, died under excommunication. As a widow
teulu CLARE somewhat negligent of a nearer menace to their fortunes in Wales - the rise of the principality of Gwynedd; they had regarded the two Llywelyn's (i.e. Llywelyn the Great and Llywelyn the Last) merely as convenient allies against the Crown. Gilbert IV in his turn sided with Montfort, but after Lewes (1264) they quarrelled, and Montfort encouraged Llywelyn II to ravage Gilbert's lands in Wales; Gilbert
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 ab OWAIN (bu farw 1174), prince was the son of Owain Gwynedd by an unknown mother. In 1145, he and his brother Hywel joined in an attack upon Cardigan; the town was sacked, but the castle was not taken. Two years later the two brothers invaded Meirionnydd and drove out their uncle Cadwaladr; as they entered the cantref from opposite directions it would seem that Cynan was now established in Ardudwy. In 1150 it is recorded that
CYNAN ap IAGO (bu farw 1060?), exiled prince was the son of Iago ab Idwal, descended from Rhodri Mawr, and ruler of Gwynedd from 1033 to 1039. Upon the murder of Iago in the latter year by his own men and the accession to power of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, of a different house, Cynan found refuge among the Danes of Dublin. Here he married Ragnhildr, granddaughter of Sitric of the Silken Beard (died 1042), and thus became allied to the royal

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