Sadyrnfyw or Sadwrnfen the Generous ( cy, Sadyrnfyw Hael;
Welsh Latin: ''Suturnius''; died c. 831) was a
bishop of Meneva (modern
St. David's
St Davids or St David's ( cy, Tyddewi, , "David's house”) is a city and a community (named St Davids and the Cathedral Close) with a cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying on the River Alun. It is the resting place of Saint David, ...
) in
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Wales
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.
His death is mentioned in the undated sections of the ''
Annals of Wales
The (Latin for ''Annals of Wales'') is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales. The earliest is a 12th-century presumed copy of a mid-10th-century original; later ed ...
''. Phillimore's reconstruction of the dating places the entry in AD 831.
[ Harleian MS. 3859. Op. cit. Phillimore, Egerton. ''Y Cymmrodor'' 9 (1888), pp. 141–83. ] The ''
Chronicle of the Princes
''Brut y Tywysogion'' ( en, Chronicle of the Princes) is one of the most important primary sources for Welsh history. It is an annalistic chronicle that serves as a continuation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ''Historia Regum Britanniae''. ''Bru ...
'' places it in 830.
References to Eclipses in Ancient Welsh Manuscripts: The History of Astronomy in Wales
. Accessed 12 Feb 2013.
References
Bishops of St Davids
9th-century Welsh bishops
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