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Cadafael (Welsh:
Cadafael Cadomedd ap
Cynfeddw or
Cadafael ap Cynfeddw;
meaning "
Cadafael, son of Cynfedd") was King of
Gwynedd (reigned 634 – c. 655)...
- son of a
famous father,
Cadwallon ap Cadfan, and the
successor to King
Cadafael. His name
appears in the
pedigrees of the
Jesus College MS. 20 (as "Kadwaladyr...
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Mercia at **** Beck, near what
later will be
Leeds (Yorkshire).
Kings Cadafael Cadomedd of
Gwynedd and Œthelwald of Deira,
allies of Mercia, withdraw...
- England. The
Kingdom of
Gwynedd is also
devastated by the plague; King
Cadafael Cadomedd dies and is
succeeded by Cadwaladr, who re****erts
himself in his...
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Cadwallon was the
father of Cadwaladr, but
Cadafael followed Cadwallon in the
royal succession and
Cadwaladr followed Cadafael, not as the
prophecy claims....
- the
result of an axe-blow by one of his own men, a
certain Cadafael Wyllt (English:
Cadafael the Wild). In his
Celtic Britain, John Rhŷs
notes that the...
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weakened by desertions.
According to the
Historia Brittonum, Penda's ally
Cadafael ap
Cynfeddw of
Gwynedd (thereafter
remembered as Cadomedd, "battle-shirker")...
- (later
spelling Merrick) of Bodorgan, Anglesey,
Wales is
descended from
Cadafael, lord of Cedewain, Powys.
Bodorgan Llewelyn ap
Meyrick fought at the battle...
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suggests that many of Penda's
allies were
British kings, and
notes that
Cadafael ap
Cynfeddw joined Œthelwald in
avoiding the battle, so
gaining the epithet...
- King of
Gwynedd Reign c. 625 – 634
Predecessor Cadfan ap Iago
Successor Cadafael Died 634 (Battle of Heavenfield)
Issue Cadwaladr House House of Gwynedd...
