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Glywysing was, from the sub-Roman period to the Early Middle Ages, a petty kingdom in south-east Wales. Its people were descended from the Iron Age tribe of the Silures , and frequently in union with Gwent , merging to form Morgannwg.
Glywys, King of Glywysing. (Born c.AD 415) (Latin: Claudius; English: Claude) Traditionally, Glywys was the eldest son of Solor, a king in Mid-South Wales. His name may indicate he was born in Caer-Gloui (Gloucester - Roman Glevum). In the mid-5th century, he apparently became the first king to really leave his mark on that region: so much so ...
That 'Kingdom of Mid-South Wales' as it was known in later traditional materials seems more often to have been known as Cernyw in its early days. A small territory, according to tradition it was founded out of a western chunk of the former Silures territory, around AD 437 by Eugenius, another son of the influential Magnus Maximus.
Traditionally Llancarfan, Glywysing: Died: 15 November 621 (aged 101) [lower-alpha 1] Archambiac, Duchy of Aquitaine: Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church: Major shrine: Saint-Malo Cathedral: Feast: 15 November: Attributes: Depicted as an abbot and a bishop: Patronage: Saint-Malo, pig-keepers, lost items
Erb was the son of King Meurig ap Caradog's son, Erbig. Nothing is known of his life, but he appears to have been the last King of a united Greater Gwent. It may have been during Erb's reign that King Cynan Garwyn of Powys invaded Glywysing & Gwent after conquering Brycheiniog. However, the monks of Llancarfan managed to negotiate peace.
Kissock identifies Llancarfan as possessing the fundamental attributes of a multiple estate, of late Roman or Early-medieval date: 'a coherent landscape unit including both fertile lowland and less attractive clay lands of river valleys'. In the wider landscape (i.e. beyond the bounds of the current historic landscape, it is known that Roman ...
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Lifris, Caradog and Llancarfan Norman Conquest of England but before the Norman conquest of Wales. The situation in south east Wales was unstable politically, with friction between the rulers of Deheubarth and Glywysing and the Norman threat from England.2 The second Life of St. Cadog was composed by Caradog of Llancarfan.
