Ceredig Ceredigion
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Ceredig ap Cunedda (died 453), was a possibly fictional or at least not well attested in reliable sources king of Ceredigion in Wales.
Key facts
- Royalty.type
- Britain
- Royalty.name
- Ceredig ap Cunedda
- Royalty.title
- Ruler, Kingdom of Ceredigion
- Royalty.image
- History of the Kings (f.96.v) Ceredig.jpg
- Royalty.father
- Cunedda
- Royalty.birth_date
- c. 420
- Royalty.death_date
- 453
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Ceredigion
- Place of birth
- Gododdin
- Father
- Cunedda
- Sibling
- Einion Yrth ap Cunedda
- Image
- History of the Kings (f.96.v) Ceredig.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0420-01-01
- date of death
- 0453-01-01
- P12749
- К
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Ceredig ap Cunedda (died 453), was a possibly fictional or at least not well attested in reliable sources king of Ceredigion in Wales.
He may have been born c. 420 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, according to Nennius' Historia Brittonum, 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 is traditionally supposed to have been called Ceredigion after him, which led to the name of modern Ceredigion, one of the principal areas of Wales.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ceredig Ceredigion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.