• General Notes

  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  plague
  Ruler of Gwynnedd abt 520-551.
  One of the tyrants criticised by Gildas.
  Reported to have survived the Battle of Camlan, where Arthur
  fell.
  Enemy of King Arthur.
  The family of Rhodri Mawr Ap Merfyn the Great Prince of Wales
  claimed descent from Mailcun [MW Maelgwn Gwynedd], a
  contemporary of the author Gildas (5th or 6th century), whose
  exact chronology is uncertain.  (The obituary of Maelgwn which
  appears in Annales Cambriae is a late fabrication, so the
  Annales Cambriae cannot be used to deduce a date for Gildas.)
  However, there are suspicious features in the early part of the
  pedigree (see, for example, Molly Miller, "Date Guessing and
  Pedigrees", in Studia Celtica 10/11[1975/6], pp. 96-109), and
  the part of the pedigree which can be considered reasonably
  certain begins with Iago, whose death is recorded in the Irish
  annals.  All dates given here should be regarded as
  approximate.

Details of Maelgwyn 'Gwynedd''s family with Gwallwen verch Afallach