Généalogie and Heritage

Source: History files.co.uk

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CUNEDDA Wledig ap Edern, King of Gwynedd

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According to long-established tradition based on generally accepted fact, a group of Votadini Picts under Cunedda (Cunedag) Wledig (the Imperator) were transferred from the area around Stirling and the mouth of the Firth of Forth to secure western Britainfrom Irish raiders. The move was part of the large scale reorganisations of British defences by Magnus Maximus, prior to his pursuit of the Imperial purple. This act has also been attributed to Vortigern, a generation later, and the probable dates for Cunedda do nothing to dispel this theory, so unless further evidence is uncovered, either version seems acceptable. Whomever the motivator of this tribal migration, Cunedda himself was said to have been ruler of the Manau Guotodin (which was a sub-division, forming the westernmost part of the Guotodin territory in modern Lothian) and was induced to migrate south with eight sons and one grandson. In Wales, he governed most of the north (as his epithet, King of North Wales, describes), although the lands under his direct rule correspond pretty accurately to the later kingdom of Gwynedd. His father and grandfather bore Roman names so it is very likely that they were Roman confederate allies.

According to long-established tradition based on generally accepted fact, a group of Votadini Picts under Cunedda (Cunedag) Wledig (the Imperator) were transferred from the area around Stirling and the mouth of the Firth of Forth to secure western Britainfrom Irish raiders.

The move was part of the large scale reorganisations of British defences by Magnus Maximus, prior to his pursuit of the Imperial purple. This act has also been attributed to Vortigern, a generation later, and the probable dates for Cunedda do nothing to dispel this theory, so unless further evidence is uncovered, either version seems acceptable.

Whomever the motivator of this tribal migration, Cunedda himself was said to have been ruler of the Manau Guotodin (which was a sub-division, forming the westernmost part of the Guotodin territory in modern Lothian) and was induced to migrate south with eight sons and one grandson.

In Wales, he governed most of the north (as his epithet, King of North Wales, describes), although the lands under his direct rule correspond pretty accurately to the later kingdom of Gwynedd. His father and grandfather bore Roman names so it is very likely that they were Roman confederate allies.