Ceredig
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| Ceredig ap Cunedda | |
|---|---|
| Ruler, Kingdom of Ceredigion | |
| Father | Cunedda |
| Born | 424 |
| Died | 453 |
Ceredig ap Cunedda, (424 - 453 AD), king of Ceredigion,[1] may have been born c. 420 AD in the Brythonic kingdom of Manaw Gododdin (modern Lothian in Scotland), centred on the Firth of Forth in the area known as Yr Hen Ogledd. Little is known of him. One of the sons of Cunedda, grandfather of Saint David,[2] according to tradition, he arrived in what is now modern Wales from Gododdin with his father's family when they were invited to help ward off Irish invaders. As a reward for his bravery, his father gave him the southernmost part of the territories in north-west Wales reconquered from the Irish. The realm came to be called Ceredigion after him.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Lives of the Cambro British saints", p. 396, 1853, Rev. William Jenkins Rees
- ^ The Cambrian, A Bi-Monthly Published in the interest of the Welsh people and their descendants in the United States, 1881, Vol. 1, 1881
