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King Maelgwn Gwynedd ap Cadwallon, King of Gwynedd

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Parents

Father Date of Birth Mother Date of Birth
King Cadwallon Lawhir ap Einion, King of Gwynedd 460

Partners

Partner Date of Birth Children
King Rhun Hir ap Maelgwn Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 473 Gwynedd, Wales
Nobility Title 534 King of Gwynedd
Death 547 Gwynedd, Wales

Facts

Fact Description
Ethnic Origin House of Gwynedd

Notes

Maelgwn Gwynedd (Latin: Maglocunus; died c. 547[1]) was king of Gwynedd during the early 6th century. Surviving records suggest he held a pre-eminent position among the Brythonic kings in Wales and their allies in the "Old North" along the Scottish coast. Maelgwn was a generous supporter of Christianity, funding the foundation of churches throughout Wales and even far beyond the bounds of his own kingdom. Nonetheless, his principal legacy today is the scathing account of his behavior recorded in De excidio et conquestu Britanniae by Gildas, who considered Maelgwn a usurper and reprobate. The son of Cadwallon Lawhir and great grandson of Cunedda, Maelgwn was buried on Ynys Seiriol (now known as Puffin Island in English), off the eastern tip of Anglesey, having died of the "yellow plague", quite probably the arrival of Justinian's Plague to Britain.

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Aberffraw of Gwynedd