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Glywys

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Glywys is a legendary early 5th century Welsh king, an important character in early Welsh genealogies as the eponymous founder king of Glywysing, a south-east Welsh kingdom whose heartland lay between the Tawe and the Usk. [1]

26 relations: Bonedd y Saint, Cadoc, Cantref, Ceredig, Cornwall, Glamorgan, Glevum, Glywysing, Gorfynydd, Gwynllwg, Gwynllyw, John Davies (historian), Mabinogion, Newport Cathedral, Nigel Jenkins, Old English, Old Welsh, Paul Aurelian, Penryn, Cornwall, Penychen, River Tawe, River Usk, Saint Petroc, Vortigern, Wales, Wentlooge.

Bonedd y Saint

The Bonedd y Saint or Seint (Welsh for "Descent of the Saints") is a Welsh genealogical tract detailing the lineages of the early British saints.

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Cadoc

Saint Cadoc or Cadog (Cadocus; also Cattwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage.

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Cantref

A cantref (plural cantrefi) was a medieval Welsh land division, particularly important in the administration of Welsh law.

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Ceredig

Ceredig ap Cunedda (died 453), king of Ceredigion,, p. 396, 1853, Rev.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Glamorgan

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Glevum

Glevum (or, more formally, Colonia Nervia Glevensium, or occasionally Glouvia) was a Roman fort in Roman Britain that became a "colonia" of retired legionaries in AD 97.

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Glywysing

Glywysing was, from the sub-Roman period to the Early Middle Ages, a petty kingdom in south-east Wales.

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Gorfynydd

Gorfynydd was a cantref in Morgannwg, Wales lying between the rivers Thaw (Ddawan) and Neath (Nedd) (and somewhat further in the coastal area).

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Gwynllwg

Gwynllŵg was a kingdom of mediaeval Wales and later a Norman lordship and then a cantref.

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Gwynllyw

Saint Gwynllyw Milwr or Gwynllyw Farfog, known in English in a corrupted form as Woolos the Warrior or Woolos the Bearded (Gundleus, Gundleius or Gwenleue; 450 – 500 AD) was a Welsh king and religious figure.

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John Davies (historian)

John Davies (25 April 1938 – 16 February 2015) was a Welsh historian, and a television and radio broadcaster.

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Mabinogion

The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain.

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Newport Cathedral

Newport Cathedral (Eglwys Gadeiriol Casnewydd) is the cathedral of the Diocese of Monmouth, in the Church in Wales, and seat of the Bishop of Monmouth.

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Nigel Jenkins

Nigel Jenkins (20 July 1949 – 28 January 2014) was an Anglo-Welsh poet.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Welsh

Old Welsh (Hen Gymraeg) is the label attached to the Welsh language from about 800 AD until the early 12th century when it developed into Middle Welsh.

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Paul Aurelian

Paul Aurelian (known in Breton as Paol Aorelian or Saint Pol de Léon and in Latin as Paulinus Aurelianus) was a 6th-century Welshman who became first bishop of the See of Léon and one of the seven founder saints of Brittany.

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Penryn, Cornwall

Penryn (Pennrynn, meaning 'promontory') is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Penychen

Penychen was a possible minor kingdom of early medieval Wales and later a cantref of the Kingdom of Morgannwg.

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River Tawe

The River Tawe (Welsh: Afon Tawe) is a river in the south of Wales.

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River Usk

The River Usk (Afon Wysg) rises on the northern slopes of the Black Mountain (y Mynydd Du), Wales, in the westernmost part of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

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Saint Petroc

Saint Petroc or Petrock (Petrocus; Pedrog; Perreux; died) was a British prince and Christian saint.

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Vortigern

Vortigern (Old Welsh Guorthigirn, Guorthegern; Gwrtheyrn; Wyrtgeorn; Old Breton Gurdiern, Gurthiern; Foirtchern; Vortigernus, Vertigernus, Uuertigernus, etc), also spelled Vortiger, Vortigan, and Vortigen, was possibly a 5th-century warlord in Britain, known perhaps as a king of the Britons, at least connoted as such in the writings of Bede.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wentlooge

Wentlooge (Gwynllŵg), sometimes known as Wentloog, is a community in the southwest of the city of Newport, South Wales, in the Marshfield ward.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glywys

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