Do you know the story of "Saint" Clydawg?
EXCERPTS from book "King Arthur King of Glamorgan & Gwent", by Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett & "King Arthur the War King", by Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett.
Do you know the story of Clydawg? Let´s find out!
In the novel King Arthur the War King, (by Wilson & Blackett), Maurice (father of Arthur II) asks Clydawg not to marry Lady Imogene (irish Guinner's widow), otherwise there is a risk of Cornwall being conquered by Clydawg or his sons. Maurice (King Meurig) does not want Clydawg conquering Cornwall under any circumstances. You remember? Cornwall was occupied by the Irishman Guinner. Imogene was Guinner's wife. These people are often confused with Igraine and Gorlois. But in truth it is Guinner of Ireland and his wife Imogene. Tewdrig killed Guinner, so Meurig killed Clydawg. After Clydawg's assassination, Maurice built a church over Clydawg's grave. Another quote from book King Arthur of Glamorgan & Gwent: "The church area is however important to our story in another way, for Clydawg was a sub- King under the sway of Theoderic (Tewdrig). We have seen how Theoderic crushed Guinner the treacherous ruler of Cornwall (Tintagel) and then destroyed his invading Irish allies. In this way Theoderic now owned and controlled Cornwall as well as the lands of the Silures. There is then a legend to consider, for THE FOLK TALES TELL OF HOW UTHER PENDRAGON WENT TO CORNWALL AND SEDUCED THE WIFE OF GORLOIS AND HIS KINSMEN AND FROM THIS UNION WAS BORN ARTHUR. Well, THE STORY IS CORRUPTED, FOR GORLOIS WAS GUINNER AND HE WAS NO LOYAL DUKE, BUT A TREACHEROUS VILLAIN AND THE PENDRAGON WHO WENT AGAINST HIM DID NOT SEDUCE HIS WIFE AND WITHDRAW, THAT PENDRAGON WAS THEODERIC (TEWDRIG.... Arthur II´s grandfather!) WHO SLAUGHTERED GUINNER AND TOOK ALL HE OWNED. This brings us to the wife of the dead GUINNER who would be part of Theoderic´s booty and here we have the very essence of the story, for here in the territory of SILURIAN MORGANWG IS THE CLUE. In the church of Clydawg a memorial stone was dug up in the restauration of 1916 to 1919 made of local red sandstone. The translation reads something like this: "THIS TOMB HAS THE REMAINS OF THAT FAITHFUL WOMAN THE DEAR WIFE OF GUINNDA WHO HERSELF WAS RESIDENT IN THIS PLACE." (Page 97, book King Arthur King of Glamorgan & Gwent by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett). Clydawg was of mixed Welsh - Irish royal parentage, his father being King Cledwyn of Ewias, and his maternal grandfather is said to be a King Glywys of Brecon. There was a bother named Dedyw and both King Clydawg and Dedyw were very strongly influenced by the Bishop (later Saint) Cadog or Cadoc. So King Clydawg was regarded as a good and holy man, but he still had enemies. ......... A shrine was built and the whole plan worked beautifully with MERTHYR CLYDAWG - the MARTYR CLYDAWG - becoming a pilgrimage attraction." (Page 96/97, King Arthur King of Glamorgan & Gwent by Wilson & Blackett)
How Academics & French- German Bloodlines misinterpret the Tintagel- Camelot Story of Uther Pendragon and Igraine, to this day !
(Quotes & Excerpts from book King Arthur of Glamorgan and Gwent by Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett, Page 97! All Rights reserved by Wilson/Blackett)Quote: " .....so we can see how the idea that the great Pendragon of South Wales coveted the wife of the ruler of Cornwall originated. THE WOMAN WAS TAKEN BUT NOT FOR LOVE OR LUST, BUT TO SECURE THE AREA OF CORNWALL TO THE BRITISH CAUSE! The Welsh invaded the area to prevent foreign Irish invasion and to suppress the revolt of the cornish ruler GUINNER. The fact that the woman who had been Guinner´s wife was held in King Theoderic´s territory will explain HOW THE LIE CAME ABOUT THAT SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF ARTHUR, THE GRANDSON OF KING THEODERIC !! Actually the tombstone praises her chastity and faithfulness and as a Queen forced to become a nun, her grave would be an additional PILGRIM - CUM- TOURIST ATTRACTION for the early monks - hence her praiseworthy tombstone!The wife of GUINNER of Cornwall had been held peacefully in a NUNNERY in the area of EUWAS, where it was considered that she was safe from anyone who might attempt to remove her back to Cornwall. Her own children had now grown over the last six years and were all being properly educated and brought up in monasteries or nunneries at the expense of WELSH KING TEODERIC (TEWDRIG). Clearly the King intended that the boys should become monks and that they should CAUSE HIM NO TROUBLE IN THE FUTURE. ( Source: King Arthur the War King, book by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett, page 53 and it is also mentioned in their book King Arthur King of Glamorgan and Gwent. )
Galahad = RHUVON BEVR - youngest son of MAELGWN GWYNEDD.Quote Wilson: " IT WAS THE ELEMENT OF SERVICE without the abuse of power which elevated Lancelot in the EYES OF THE NORMAN KINGS and BARONS. For was not their Duke William of Normandy infinitely more powerful than the King of France and yet nominally HIS VASSAL and so it was with his successors.
"Page 263, Book King Arthur King of Glamorgan & Gwent by Wilson/ Blackett.Page 236 book King Arthur King of Glamorgan & Gwent by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett!
The Location of Cornwailes and Camlan. Who was Igerna and how the french Normans muddled up welsh royal Arthurian History
The Location Of Cornwailes:
(excerpts & preview from book "King Arthur of Glamorgan & Gwent", by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Page 50 - 52.
The major difficulty in unravelling the story of ancient Britain is to follow the changes and mutations of names of people and places. The outstanding name confusion with the Arthurian legends is that of Cornwailes.
When the first King Brutus, led the ancestors of the British into their future homelands his chief lieutenant was a chieftain named Conan to whom Brutus gave the land of Cornwailes. Now this was NORTH WALES and has to be clearly understood otherwise the confusion will remain. The area of South West England now known as Cornwall did not become so called until around the 7th to 8th centuries. So later scholars reaching back transferred the old CORNWAILES to the new Cornwall along with the real history of the area.
When the history of ancient times speak of CORNWAILES they mean NORTH WALES and the King of the British was the KING OF WALES, plus the NORTHERN LANDS.
This mis- identification of Cornwailes is the vita area of ARTHURIAN CONFUSION. Conan or Coryn´s descendants settled in CAERNARFON, the place name Gwely Wyrion Kynan meaning "the settlement of Conan´s descendants" was the very ancient name of what later became EIVIONYDD in CAERNARFON. By establishing that old North Wales was called Cornwailes we solve much of the puzzle surrounding the stories of King Arthur 1 .
We can see that it is easily possible for his father VICTOR UTHYR PENDRAGON to have had a marriage relationship with the daughter of a Prince in North Wales, the RESULT OF WHICH WAS ARTHUR 1 and his sister ANNA. VICTOR was ruling from Cardiff and his own father MAGNUS MAXIMUS married ELEN, the daughter of OCTAVIUS - EUDAVV of CAERNARFON.
It also explains how over 150 years later a descendant ARTHUR 2 fought a great battle at CAMLAN in CORNWAILES which was NORTH WALES.
The place of the supposed BIRTH OF ARTHUR is a castle or fortress which is again in WALES if this was a dynastic marriage between the King of the ruling clan in the south and the daughter of the Lord of the north.
TIN - DAGOL is the fort of the dewlap or fresh fields, as TIN - DERYN is the Princes fort. If the Princes fort is that of the northern Prince then we favour CAERNARFON - if it is the Princes fort in the South then it has to be CARDIFF, the place of UTHER the KING - CONSUL!
The wrong identification with Cornwailes and Cornuailles - Brittany, and also with Cornwall, the South West tip of present day England has caused endless problems to those trying to understand the history of Britain in the HEROIC AGE between 400 and 600 A.D.
Any original reference to Cornwailes before 800 A.D. means NORTH WALES and nowhere else, which disposes of the false West Country myths WHICH HAS MISLED searches for so long.
What appears to have happened is that the following dynastic marriage between Magnus Maximus and Elen the daughter of King Euddav of Caernarfon, or King Octavius of Segontium, his son Victor -Uther the Pendragon at Cardiff also contracted a similar marriage with the daughter of the Lord of the North who succeeded Euddav.
THIS LADY was named IGERNA by GRUFFYDD ap ARTHUR and this is therefore EYSUELT or ISOLDE.
HER FATHER is named as GORLOIS and this is also translatable.
As there were 2 children of this marriage, ARTHUR 1 ANARAWD, or ANDRAGATIUS in Latin - and a girl named ANNA, it was NO quick illicit love affair as some fables suggest.
There is a remarkable parallel as 150 years later the 2nd ARTHUR was born a son of KING MEURIG of GLAMORGAN and he ALSO had a sister named ANNA who was married to St. ILLTYD.
Gelli Wyrion Cynan in Cornwailes, meaning Conan´s settlement in North Wales, somehow became Gelli Wig in Cornwall and the great muddle began.
Alternatively, Arthur´s court and hunting lodge over in Brittany, accurately located by folklore and tradition, in old CORNOUAILLES became confused in the same way.
(by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett)