Cinuit ( cy, Cynwyd) may have been an early ruler of the
Brittonic
Brittonic or Brythonic may refer to:
*Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain
*Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic
*Britons (Celtic people)
The Br ...
kingdom of
Alt Clut
Dumbarton Castle ( gd, Dùn Breatainn, ; ) has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Scotland. It sits on a volcanic plug of basalt known as Dumbarton Rock which is high and overlooks the Scottish town of Dumbarton.
History
Dumba ...
, later known as Strathclyde, in Britain's ''
Hen Ogledd
Yr Hen Ogledd (), in English the Old North, is the historical region which is now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands that was inhabited by the Brittonic people of sub-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages. Its population sp ...
'' or "Old North". The
Harleian genealogies
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The Harleian genealogies are a collection of Old Welsh genealogies preserved in British Library, Harley MS 3859. Part of the Harleian Library, the manuscript, which also contains the ''Annales Cambriae'' (Recension A) and a version of ...
indicate that he was the son of
Ceretic Guletic, who may be identified with the warlord ''Ceredig'' rebuked by
Saint Patrick in one of his letters. According to the same pedigrees, he was the father of
Dumnagual Hen, an important but obscure ancestor figure in Welsh tradition.
[MacQuarrie, p. 5.] The later genealogy ''
Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd
''Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd'' ( en, The Descent of the Men of the North) is a brief Middle Welsh tract which claims to give the pedigrees of twenty 6th century rulers of the Hen Ogledd, the Brittonic-speaking parts of southern Scotland and norther ...
'' replaces Cinuit as Dumnagual's father with a certain Idnyuet, said to be the son of
Maxen Wledic (the Roman usurper Magnus Maximus).
[Bromwich, pp. 256–257.] However, the ''Bonedd'' does include a "Cynwyd Cynwydion" in the ancestry of
Clydno Eiddyn, and a
Triad attached to the text mentions the "three hundred swords of the (tribe of) Cynwydion" as one of three formidable north British war bands, along with those of
Coel Hen
Coel (Old Welsh: ''Coil''), also called ''Coel Hen'' (Coel the Old) and King Cole, is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages. Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen, a 4th-century leader in Roman or Sub-Roman ...
and
Cynfarch.
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{{Kings of Alt Clut
Monarchs of Strathclyde
5th-century Scottish monarchs