Cinuit ( cy, Cynwyd) may have been an early ruler of the Brittonic kingdom of Alt Clut, 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 spo ...

'' or "Old North". The

Harleian genealogies __NOTOC__ 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 th ...

indicate that he was the son of

Ceretic Guletic Ceretic Guletic of Alt Clut was a List of Kings of Strathclyde, king of Alt Clut, associated with Dumbarton Castle in the 5th century. He has been identified with Coroticus, a Britons (historical), Brittonic warrior addressed in a letter by Saint P ...

, who may be identified with the warlord ''Ceredig'' rebuked by

Saint Patrick Saint Patrick ( la, Patricius; ga, Pádraig ; cy, Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints be ...

in one of his letters. According to the same pedigrees, he was the father of

Dumnagual Hen Dyfnwal Hen or Dumnagual Hen ("Dyfnwal the Old") was a ruler of the Brittonic kingdom of Alt Clut, later known as Strathclyde, probably sometime in the early 6th century. His biography is vague, but he was regarded as an important ancestor figure ...

, an important but obscure ancestor figure in Welsh tradition.MacQuarrie, p. 5. The later genealogy '' Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd'' 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 Clydno Eidyn was a ruler of Eidyn, the district around modern Edinburgh, in the 6th century. Eidyn was a district of the Gododdin kingdom in the Hen Ogledd, or "Old North", the Brittonic-speaking parts of Northern England and southern Scotland in t ...

, and a

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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 and

Cynfarch Cynfarch Oer ('Cynfarch the Dismal', also known as Cunomarcus or Cynfarch ap Meirchion) was probably a 6th-century king of the Sub-Roman realm of Rheged, believed to be located in north-west England and south-west Scotland. Next to nothing is k ...

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* * {{Kings of Alt Clut Monarchs of Strathclyde 5th-century Scottish monarchs