Cadfan ap Iago (580 - 625)

Born 0580 in Wales

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 0625 at about age 45 in Kingdom of Gwynedd

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Biography

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===Battle of Caerllion (Chester).===
The English peoples gradually gained control over much of Southern Britain. The period saw the defeat of the Welsh at Dyrham in 577 that cut them off from their fellow Britons in the Southwest and the Battle of Chester in 615, that severed contact with the Britons of the North. The Welsh of the Western peninsular were now on their own but could develop as a separate cultural and linguistic unit from the rest of Britain.^[2]

Name

Cadfan ap /Iago/

Latin: Catamanus; English: Gideon

Title

Assumed the crown of Gwynedd following the Battle of Caerllion

Date: 615

Place: Kingdom of Gwynedd^[3]

Ancestry of Essylt

Stewart Baldwin provides the following pedigree for Esyllt:

1. 13|4097. Esyllt ferch Cynan Dindaethwy [HG.1: "Etthil merch Cinnan"] [Note: The best and earliest sources give her as the mother of Merfyn Frych. Later sources erroneously assign her as Merfyn's wife. ^[4]
2. 14|8194. Cynan Dindaethwy ap Rhodri Molwynog, king of Gwynedd, d. 816 [AC] [HG.1: "Cinnan map Rotri"] ^[4]
3. 15|16388. Rhodri Molwynog ab Idwal Iwrch, d. ca. 754 [AC] [HG.1: "Rotri map Iutguaul"] ^[4]
4. 16|32776. Idwal Iwrch ap Cadwaladr Fendigaid [HG.1: "Iutguaul map Catgualart"] ^[4]
5. 17|65552. Cadwaladr Fendigaid ap Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd, d. 664 or 682? (sources differ, but the latter date, from AC, seems more likely) [HG.1: "Catgualart map Catgollaun"] ^[4]
6. 18|131104. Cadwallon ap Cadfan, king of Gwynedd, d. 634 [AC] [HG.1: "Catgollaun map Catman"] ^[4]
7. 19|262208. Catamanus (Cadfan ap Iago), king of Gwynedd, early seventh century, whose tombstone survives at Llangadwaladr ("Catamanus rex sapientisimus opinatisimus omnium regum" [CIIC.970; ECMW.13]) [HG.1: "Catman map Iacob"] ^[4]
8. 20|524416. Iago, king of Gwynedd, d. ca. 616 [AC, which should only be considered approximate]. [Note: Since Iago apparently died only 18 years (or thereabouts) before his grandson Cadwallon, he was evidently elderly at the time. Thus, as has been pointed out on numerous occasions, there are chronological difficulties with accepting his traditional pedigree [HG.1: "... Iacob map Beli map Rhun map Mailcun ..."], which would make him the great-grandson of the famous Maelgwn Gwynedd, king of Gwynedd, and contemporary of Gildas, who is frequently dated to the middle of the sixth century (perhaps not correctly). Despite these doubts, the traditional genealogy of Iago is not absolutely impossible, even if Maelgwn died in the middle of the sixth century. Furthermore, since the AC obituary of Maelgwn has been convincingly shown to be a tenth century fabrication (see "Gildas and Maelgwn: Problems of Dating", by David N. Dumville, in Gildas: New Approaches (ed. Lapidge & Dumville, The Boydell Press), 51-9), it is not impossible that both Gildas and Maelgwn should be dated earlier in the sixth century, which would ease the chronological problems caused by the above genealogy. Thus, if a consensus should arise that the work of Gildas should be dated a generation or so earlier than it normally has been, the skeptical position on these earlier generations might have to be reevaluated.] ^[4]

Burial

St. Cadwaladr's Church - Llangadwaladr, Anglesey, North Wales, UK^[5]

The stone has an inscription in Latin which translates as: King Cadfan, the wisest and most renowned of all Kings

Note. The Church of St. Cadwaladr at Llangadwaladrch on Yns Mon (Anglesey) is most famous as the burial place of King Cadfan of Gwynedd who died in A.D. 625. (http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/archaeology/llangadwaladrch.html)

Sources

1. ↑ Harleian genealogies 1: Gwynedd part 1, amb
2. ↑ Wales History Timeline
3. ↑ Lloyd, p. 181, added 2014-07-26, amb
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7} Stewart Baldwin. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table First presented in GEN-MEDIEVAL/soc.genealogy.medieval
5. ↑ King Cadfan Tombstone

• Castle Wales, The Early Welsh Kingdoms - Gwynedd. Using The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens, by Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. New York, 1998.
• Family History - Derwas Back to BC. Website Design by SAM 365
• King Cadfan Tombstone - St Cadwaladr's Church - Llangadwaladr, Anglesey, North Wales, UK
• Wales History Timeline, Britannia.com
• Sir John Edward Lloyd, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, Volume 1. Edition 2. Publisher: Longmans, Green, 1912

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