Cunedda ap Edern

Abt 386 - UNKNOWN

• Name	Cunedda ap Edern
  Born	Abt 386	Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Died	UNKNOWN
  Person ID	I5513	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Edern ap Padarn,   b. Abt 364, Wales ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F5797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gwawl verch Coel,   b. Abt 388, Wales ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Children	1. Einion ap Cunedda,   b. Abt 417, North Wales ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F1504	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Cunedda is credited with founding the kingdom of Gwynedd. (In Welsh the these words would be pronouced "Koonetha" and "G/Kooneth", nearly identical.) According to legend, he was leader of the Votadini in southern Scotland, who, in the early fifth century, led his people into north Wales, driving out the Irish with a great slaughter. Gwynedd was one of the most prominent Welsh kingdoms, based upon the Isle of Anglesey and Snowdonia. It was founded in the immediate post-Roman period and prospered in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.