• Cynddylan (Modern Welsh pronunciation: /kən'ðəlan/), or Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn was a seventh-century Prince of Powys associated with Pengwern. Cynddylan...
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    exploits of Cynddylan, as imagined around the 9th century, are told in the Old Welsh Canu Heledd (a cycle of poems named after Cynddylan's sister), possibly...
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    needed] Penda's Welsh allies may have included Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn of Powys: the awdl-poem Marwnad Cynddylan, thought to have been composed shortly after...
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  • character. One prominent figure in the poems is Heledd's dead brother Cynddylan. Dorothy Ann Bray summarised the cycle thus: The entire cycle of the Heledd...
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  • made in Marwnad Cynddylan, a probably seventh-century awdl-poem, in which the mythological hero is compared to the deceased Cynddylan, a seventh-century...
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    invades Pengwern (modern Wales) and kills King Cynddylan in battle, near the River Trent. Cynddylan's brother Morfael and the rest of the royal family...
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    which includes the Welsh army of Kings Cadafael Cadomedd of Gwynedd and Cynddylan of Pengwern. The Mercians become dominant in the English Midlands. Oswiu...
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    prefixing the name of a house, parish or the mother's surname, as in "Cynddylan Jones". A hyphen was sometimes later introduced, for example "Griffith-Jones"...
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    literature which places an English-battling seventh-century king called Cynddylan in the Wroxeter region.: 33–34  Scholars also argued that the importance...
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    Proto-Celtic, Brill, 2009, pp. 197–198 John T. Koch, Cunedda, Cynan, Cadwallon, Cynddylan: Four Welsh Poems and Britain 383–655 (Aberystwyth: University of Wales...
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    the Midlands, possibly around the Wrekin, England. Cyndrwyn (c. 535) Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn (fl. 642) Overlord of Wales (King of Wales) as a modern territory...
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    tonight for the heir of the Cyndrwynyn; it is the land of the grave of Cynddylan Wyn. Baschurch is ?fallow land tonight; its clover is bloody. It is reddened;...
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    in the perhaps seventh-century Welsh praise-poem Marwnad Cynddylan, which says of Cynddylan: 'pan fynivys mab pyd mor fu parawd' ('when the son of Pyd...
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    Eglwys Tysilio and subsequently the dynasty's Royal mausoleum. If King Cynddylan of Pengwern hailed from the royal Powys dynasty, then forces from Powys...
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  • assuming Eiludd Powys fought at Maes Cogwy alongside Elfan Powys and Cynddylan, that Beli would have been the King whom Heledd ran to for protection...
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    this battle was called the battle of Pengwern and in it their leader Cynddylan was also killed. The earliest known human settlement in Oswestry is Old...
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  • Jones, they are given as stanzas 7 (not an englyn), 14-15 (on Owain and Cynddylan), 19 (part of 17-19, on Meigen son of Rhun), 30 (part of 28-30, on graves...
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  • family all dead, he is advised to flee to the court of Cynddylan in the Kingdom of Powys. When Cynddylan was slain in battle, Llywarch was left friendless...
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  • surprise assault on Pengwern's llys (English: royal court), killing King Cynddylan and virtually wiping out the entire royal family. Thereafter Pengwern...
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    king Cynddylan; but the poem's geography probably reflects the time of its composition, around the ninth or tenth century rather that Cynddylan's own time...
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  • invades Pengwern (modern Wales) and kills King Cynddylan in battle, near the River Trent. Cynddylan's brother Morfael and the rest of the royal family...
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  • ll. 21n, 37. Koch, John T. (ed. and tr.) Cunedda, Cynan, Cadwallon, Cynddylan: Four Welsh Poems and Britain 383-655 (Aberystwyth: University of Wales...
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  • and Taliesin (second half of the 6th century), and the haunting Stafell Cynddylan, which is the oldest recorded literary work by a woman in northern Europe...
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  • http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/e/e-L.html Mathews K, 2006, Marwnad Cynddylan (The death of Cynddylan), section 8, accessed at http://www.kmatthews.org.uk/history/texts...
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    Welsh sources. His name is mentioned in two englynion at the end of a 'Cynddylan' fragment in the Middle Welsh poetry known as Canu Llywarch Hen (XI. 112b...
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    has been identified with Trefwen (white-town), the famous stronghold of Cynddylan king of Pengwern. Whittington was granted to William Peverel probably...
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    She was then at Broadmead Wesleyan Chapel in Bristol where she and John Cynddylan Jones lead the services. In June 1905 Evan Roberts preached to 6,000 people...
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    Shrewsbury. The earliest piece of Welsh evidence for this is the Lament for Cynddylan incorporated in the poems of Llywarch Hen, which date in their written...
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  • Oxbow Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-78570-227-3. Cunedda, Cynan, Cadwallon, Cynddylan: Four Welsh Poems and Britain 383–655. University of Wales Centre for...
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    combined forces of Gwynedd and Powys at the Battle of Chester and the royal Cynddylan dynasty of Powys was overthrown by the Mercians at the end of the 7th...
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