Ceredig ap Cunedda (died 453), was a possibly fictional or at least not well attested in reliable sources king of

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in Wales. "Lives of the Cambro British saints"
p. 396, 1853, Rev. William Jenkins Rees He may have been born c. 420 in the Brythonic kingdom of Manaw Gododdin (modern

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), centred on the

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in the area known as Yr Hen Ogledd. Little is known of him. One of the sons of

Cunedda Cunedda ap Edern, also called Cunedda ''Wledig'' (reigned – c. 460), was an important early Welsh people, Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Kingdom of Gwynedd, Gwynedd, one of the very oldest of Western Europe. Nam ...

, grandfather of Saint David, according to Nennius'

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, he arrived in what is now modern

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from Gododdin with his father's family when they were invited to help ward off Irish invaders. As a reward for his bravery, his father gave him the southernmost part of the territories in north-west Wales reconquered from the Irish. The realm is traditionally supposed to have been called ''Ceredigion'' after him, which led to the name of modern

, one of the

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. He married Meleri, one of the many daughters of King Brychan Brycheiniog of Brycheiniog (now Brecknockshire). Amongst their children was a daughter named Ina who is thought to be the Saint Ina to whom St Ina's Church in Llanina near New Quay, Ceredigion is dedicated, and a son named Sanctus who in legend raped

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and is the father of Saint David.

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References

Lives of the Cambro British saints
William Jenkins Rees, Thomas Wakeman, 1835
A history of Wales from the earliest times
John Edward Lloyd, 1911
The Cambrian, A Bi-Monthly Published in the interest of the Welsh people and their descendants in the United States, 1881, Vol. 1, 1881
Legendary Welsh people British traditional history Britons of the North Monarchs of Ceredigion