St. Tewdrig, King of Gwent & Glywysing

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173392863927 (February 6, 2023; Anne Brannen, curator)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Rethinking the Gwent Pedigrees; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id24.html. In this paper Wolcott shares Bartrum's view that the father of Tewdrig was Llywarch ap Ninniaw. In a subsequent paper, The Father of Tewdrig of Gwent; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id27.html, Wolcott expresses doubt as to the parentage of Tewdrig. It could be either Llywarch or Teithfallt as stated in earlier manuscripts. In a third paper, Another Look at Teithfallt of Gwent; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id27.html, Wolcott offers a history with a conjecture as to how the father of Tewdrig could actually have been Theithfallt ap Ynyr (Honorius.) (Steven Ferry, April 11, 2017.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Royal Family of Glamorgan: The Ancestry of Iestyn ap Gwrgan; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id227.html. (Steven Ferry, December 27, 2018.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Beli Mawr and Llyr Llediath in Welsh Pedigrees; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id145.html . (Steven Ferry, Aug 25, 2019)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Rethinking the Gwent Pedigrees; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id24.html. (Steven Ferry, February 20, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Father of Tewdrig of Gwent; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id27.html. (Steven Ferry, February 22, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Another Look at Teithfallt of Gwent; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id168.html. (Steven Ferry, February 25, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Ynyr Gwent and Caradog Freich Fras; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id25.html. (Steven Ferry, February 26, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Two Families Headed by a Rhydderch ap Iestyn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id212.html. (Steven Ferry, July 18, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Ancestry of Iestyn ap Gwrgan; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id227.html. (Steven Ferry, August 21, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Harleian Ms 3859; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id129.html. (Steven Ferry, March 11, 2021.)

St. Tewdrig, King of Gwent & Glywysing (c.580-c.630) (Latin: Theodoricius; English: Theodoric)

St. Tewdrig was the son of King Nynniaw of Gwent's son, Llywarch. He was King of Gwent in the early 7th century, but little is known of his reign. In later life, he abdicated in favour of his son, Meurig, and became a hermit at Din-Teyryn (Tintern). Soon afterward, however, around 630, the Saxons invaded Gwent. The local monasteries were particularly badly hit by their raids and so Tewdrig decided to come out of retirement and take up his sword once more to defend the church.

Together with his son, the two Kings pushed back the Saxon menace, but Tewdrig was wounded in the Battle of Pont-y-Saeson and had to be taken to Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel for treatment. An ox-cart was called to take him there but, on their journey, the oxen stopped themselves at a miraculous spring (now known as St.Tewdrig's Well). Here Tewdrig's wounds were cleansed and here he died. King Meurig built a great church on the spot and enshrined his father's saintly body there. The place became known Merthyr-Teyryn (Mathern) after the Martyred-Prince . http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/tewdrgt.html