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CUNEDDA WLEDIG (fl. 450?), British prince pedigrees provide the links with Maelgwn, furnish the names of nine sons of Cunedda, and describe him as the son of Edern ap Padarn Beisrudd ap Tegid. Though far from contemporary, these accounts seem to tell a true story. The Old Welsh form ' Cunedag ' goes back to a Celtic 'Counodagos,' signifying 'good lord,' while Eternus, Paternus, and Tacitus point to a Roman environment of several generations
CYBI (fl. 550), saint He appears in the pedigrees as the son of Selyf ap Geraint ab Erbin. His life, found in two (Latin) forms written about 1200, is of very doubtful value, but may be right in making him the son of a Cornish noble who was ' princeps militae ' ('penteulu'), at a court between the Tamar and the Lynher, possibly Gelliwig. His chief foundation was Holyhead - in Welsh, Caer Gybi - where he established
CYFEILIOG (bu farw 927), bishop of Llandaff . Of these, five appear to be of lands in Gwent or its border, at Monmouth, Roggiet, Pool Meyrick, Bishton, and Caldicot, and are the gift of Brochwel ap Meurig, king of Gwent in the age of Asser; another donor is Hywel ap Rhys, king of Glewysing (now Glamorgan) at the same period, while the third is Hywel's son Arthfael.
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet . Davids (Cwrtmawr MS 222D (28)), and Dafydd Llwyd of Dolobran (Aberdare MS. 1 (578)). He also wrote poetry on topical themes, e.g. a cywydd written in judgment on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and in praise of king James I (Peniarth MS 112: Llyfr cywyddau Siôn ap William ap Siôn (189)), and an englyn giving advice to William Cyffin on his departure for Ireland with the earl of Essex in 1599 (Jes. Coll. MS
CYNAN ab OWAIN (bu farw 1174), prince he was imprisoned by his father. He took an active part in the resistance to Henry II in 1157, sharing with his brother David the ambush laid in the woods of Hawarden which nearly led to the collapse of the royal expedition. Less creditable was his part in the attempt of five earls in 1159 to capture Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197). On the death of his father in 1170 he probably held Eifionydd
CYNAN ap HYWEL (bu farw 1242?), prince Llywelyn's death in 1240, hostile to the Crown, and accordingly deprived him of Emlyn and Ystlwyf. His later history is unknown, but it is clear from the elegy of Dafydd Benfras upon Gruffydd ap Llywelyn that in 1244 he was dead. Prydydd Bychan has an elegy upon him couched in the traditional vein; he is 'England's foe,' has made England bend, and on a hundred nights has made war upon Rhos.
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
CYNAN DINDAETHWY (bu farw 816), prince 814 Hywel was the victor, but Cynan won back the island in 816, only to die in that year. According to the life of Gruffudd ap Cynan, his descendant, he was of Castell Dindaethwy, which has been identified with the hill-fort near Plas Cadnant, in the parish of Llandysilio (Inv. Anglesey, xciii). He left a daughter, Ethyllt (for the form see Rhys, Celtic Folklore, 480, n.), who became the mother of
CYNDDELW BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. 1155-1200), leading 12th century Welsh court poet to him as 'Cynddelw the big, giant of gatherings'; hence it is to be presumed that he was called 'Mawr' in the first place on account of his size. He had at least one son, named Dygynnelw, who was killed in battle (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 185a). Cynddelw was appointed leading poet to the court of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys (died 1160). His two best extant poems resulting from his
CYNDEYRN, saint This Saint is commemorated at Llangyndeyrn in Carmarthenshire. Late-mediaeval genealogies make him the son of Saint Cyngar ap Garthog ap Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig; his feast was on 25 July, O.S. - the patronal fair at Llangyndeyrn is now held on 5 and 6 August His father, Cyngar, should not be confused with the saint Cyngar / Docwin / Dochau.
CYNFRIG ap DAFYDD GOCH (fl. c. 1420), poet Several of his cywyddau are preserved, among them two in praise of Wiliam of Penrhyn, a cywydd gofyn, and one to Tudur ap Iorwerth Sais (Rhys ap Cynfrig Coch in Cwrtmawr MS 244B (52), Gruffydd Gryg in Llanstephan MS 11 (105), Peniarth MS 64 (122), NLW MS 3047C (793)).
CYNWRIG ap RHYS (bu farw 1237), prince. Son of the Lord Rhys ap Gruffydd. Nothing is known of him other than the impression he made on Gerald the Welshman when he was travelling through Ceredigion with Archbishop Baldwin preaching the crusade. Gerald says that he was a tall, handsome young man with fair curly hair, dressed in the style of Welshmen of the period - a shirt and a thin clock and barefooted - but lithe and dignified in

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