King Cenue ap Coel Hen of Northern Britain 
Cenue's father was King Coel Hen ap Tegfan of Northern Britain and his mother is Ystradwal ferch Cadfan. His paternal grandfather is Tegfan Gloff ap Telpwyll; his maternal grandfather is King Cadfan ap Cynan of Dumnonia. He has a sister named Gwawl.General Notes
b? 374
St. Ceneu (Welsh-Cenyw, Latin-Ceneus, English-Kenneth), King of
NorthernBritain, born c. 382. Ceneu was an early King of
Northern Britain, theheir of Coel Hen (the Old). His Kingdom
stretched from Coast to Coast.Ceneu appears to have been
canonized because he upheld the old Christianways while under
intense pressure from invading pagans. High-KingVortigern's
policy of employing Saxon mercenaries to defeat Britishenemies
meant that, for most of his reign, Ceneu was obliged to
acceptthe help of the Saxons, Octha and Ebissa, in pushing back
invading Pictsfrom his kingdom. Their interference was widely
resented and it was notuntil after the Kentish rebellion that
they were finally brought undercontrol. Magnanimous in victory,
Ceneu allowed the Saxons to settle inDeywr (Deira - East
Yorkshire). Ceneu appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth'sHistory of
the Kings of Britain as having attended the coronation of
thegreat King Arthur. if so, he must have lived to an extreme
old age. Uponhis death, Ceneu's kingdom was divided between his
two sons, Gwrast andMor. Gwrast took the western lands
stretching from the Salway to theMersey, while Mor inherited
the central kingdom around the old capital,Ebrauc (York).
[David Nash Ford, Early British Kingdoms, Biographies ofthe
Kings of Ebrauc]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0255
- b.~ 0280
- b.~ 0300
- b.~ 0325
- b.ABT 0350/0370 d.0420 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.ABT 0382/0405
- b.~ 0250 in Britain
- b.~ 0285
- b.~ 0305
- b.ABT 0325/0340 in Rome, Italy
- b.ABT 0250/0260 in Scotland d. in Ireland
- b.~ 0280 in Scotland
- b.~ 0305
- b.~ 0360
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Children
Gwrst ("Lledlwm") ap Ceneu
Gwrst, known as "Lledlwm", was born about 0400 in South Reged, Britain. He died about 0505.
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