Ygerne ferch Amlawdd 
Ygerne was born about 0452 in Dumnonia, Britain. Ygerne's father is Duke Amlawdd Wledig ap Cynwal of North Cymru and her mother is Queen Yglais of Britain. Her paternal grandfather is Cynwal ap Ffrwdwr of Dumnonia; her maternal grandfather is Lambor ben Zamphir. She has two half-sisters named Tywanweed and Eigyr.General Notes
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Ygerne (Eigyr), who, a widow, by Eutherius [Uthyr Pendragon], the “King of Britain”, was the mother of King Arthur "The Great". [Eutherius had long time been “Duke of Britain” under his brother Ambrosius, Governor, King of Britain, and rival Roman Emperor 472 (Oct) to 473 (Mar), who died childless, and was succeeded by his brother. St. Gildas says that Ambrosius was the son of a Roman Emperor, and that he descended from the Roman “caesars”.]
Sister of King Arthur of legend
Queen Ygerna alias Igraine
(Born c.AD 452)
(Welsh: Eigr; Latin: Ygerna; English: Igraine)
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Ygerna or Igraine (Eigr in Welsh) was the Duchess of Cornwall, ravishing wife of Gorlois and mother of King Arthur. After the death of Gorlois, she married Uther Pendragon, who, under false pretenses and aided by Merlin's trickery, had slept with her, impregnated her with Arthur and had been responsible for her husband's death. Chretien de Troyes claims that after Uther's death, Ygerna retired to a palace she had had built for herself known as the Chastel des Merveilles or "Castle of Wonders".
She was the daughter of Amlawdd Wledig (the Imperator), a member of a younger branch of the Royal House of Dumnonia. He was probably a nobleman of Ergyng, though he has also been attached to the North of Britain and Brittany. His family are central to the Mabinogion story of "Culhwch and Olwen". As well as Arthur, various sources have attributed Ygerna with several children by her first marriage: daughters Elaine, (Anna) Morgause and, perhaps mistakenly, Morgan; sons Gormant and, mistakenly, Cador.
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