200px, Ancient Dyfed showing Deugleddyf Cantref and its "commotes"
200px, Pembrokeshire showing Dungleddy Hundred
The Hundred of Dungleddy was a
hundred in the centre of
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire ( ; cy, Sir Benfro ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the rest by sea. The count ...
,
Wales
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. It had its origins in the pre-
Norman
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* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
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cantref
A cantref ( ; ; plural cantrefi or cantrefs; also rendered as ''cantred'') was a medieval Welsh land division, particularly important in the administration of Welsh law.
Description
Land in medieval Wales was divided into ''cantrefi'', which were ...
of Deugleddyf.
It derives its
Welsh
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* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
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* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...
name from its position between the two branches of the
River Cleddau (''Cleddyf''): the English form is a corruption of the Welsh. The area of the cantref was around 185 km
2: it was the smallest of the seven cantrefi of Dyfed.
The cantref was allegedly divided into two
commote
A commote (Welsh ''cwmwd'', sometimes spelt in older documents as ''cymwd'', plural ''cymydau'', less frequently ''cymydoedd'')''Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru'' (University of Wales Dictionary), p. 643 was a secular division of land in Medieval Wales ...
s. The
Red Book of Hergest
The ''Red Book of Hergest'' ( cy, Llyfr Coch Hergest, Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111) is a large vellum manuscript written shortly after 1382, which ranks as one of the most important medieval manuscripts written in the Welsh language. It preser ...
calls these "Castell Hu" (= modern ''Cas-wis'' or Wiston) and "Llan y Hadein" (=''Llanhuadain'' or Llawhaden). These both appear to be post-Norman lordships and are not genuine native subdivisions.
The western part of the hundred was English-speaking from the time of the Norman conquest, and formed part of
Little England beyond Wales
Little England beyond Wales is a name that has been applied to an area of southern Pembrokeshire and southwestern Carmarthenshire in Wales, which has been English in language and culture for many centuries despite its remoteness from England. I ...
: the eastern part was part of the Lordship of the
Bishop of St David's, and
George Owen described it as bilingual. The three northeastern parishes of
Llys y Fran,
New Moat and
Bletherston were Welsh-speaking during the 20th century.
As their names imply, the civil headquarters of the commotes were at
Wiston and
Llawhaden, and the latter the cantref's ecclesiastical centre, perhaps the seat of a bishop during the Age of the Saints.
Dungleddy was formalised as a hundred by the
Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542: a small part was transferred to the hundred of
Dewisland, and various fragments of church land (Llandissilio, Llanfallteg, Llangan, Crinow, Henllan, Grondre and western Llawhaden) were acquired from
Cantref Gwarthaf.
The name continues in the present day as Daugleddau, a
Church in Wales
The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglicanism, Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishop ...
parish
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in the
Diocese of St Davids, combining 13 former
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
parishes of Pembrokeshire.
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