• General Notes

  History: Cunedda was the first to head the Gwynedd branch of the family.
  K: Cunnedda Guoledic, King of Manau, Guotodin, North Britain.
  AF calls him Duke of the Britains.
  ****** Gwriad....m. Eithyllt, dau of Cynan (d. 816) ap Rhodri Molwynog (d. 754) ap Idwal ap Cadwaladr (d. 664), great-grandson of Maelgwn Gwynedd, the "Island Dragon" of Gildas's Chronicle (d. 547), great-grandson of Cunedda Wledig (the Ruler). Cunedda, named in 7th and 10th century pedigrees, where he is styled "ap Eydern (Eternus) ap Padarn Beisrudd (Paternus of the Red Robe) ap Tegid (Tacitus)" was apparently a Romanised Brythonic Christian chieftain, whose title and territorial origins suggest the Dux Britanniarium or officer in charge of Hadrian's Wall. He, too, was from the North, and drove the Scots (i.e. the Irish) from Gwynedd, ca. 429. His name survives in Alit Cunedda (Cunedda's Hill) near Kidwelly. [Source 1]
  "According to the ninth-century Welsh historian Nennius in his "Historia Brittonum," about the year 400 A.D. a band of Scots led by Cunedda Wledig and his eight sons moved into northern Wales as the Roman Legions withdrew to expel invaders from Ireland who had settled in the area. He established the Royal Dynasty of Gwynedd and consolidated the Kingdom of Wales. Over the next several centuries the Scots married into the remaining Irish and local Welsh populations and established most of the Welsh dynasties, including the Morgans."
  "The kingdom was divided into a number of smaller kingdoms by the heirs of Cunedda Wledig. He married Gwawl, who was the daughter of Coel Hen, the granddaughter of Tehvant, and the great-granddaughter of Urban. They had sons Gwen, the grandfather of King Arthur, and Einion Yrth. (The present-day area of Wales called Cardigan is named for Cunedda Wledig)." [Source 2]
  Cunedda was the first to head the Gwynedd branch of the family.
  Children
  Gwen Ap CUNEDDA
  Einion Yrth Ap CUNEDDA b: in Of,Caer Einion,Montgomery,Wales
  Ceredig Ap CUNEDDA

Details of Cunedda Wledig Ap 's family with Gwawl Verch Coel  GODEBOG