Saturday 21 July 2012

CUNEDDA, Y CYMRY and the FOUNDATION OF CYMRU - A CALL TO MEMORIALISE, COMMEMORATE AND CELEBRATE.


The August 2012 issue of the BBC History Magazine includes a feature which asks the question: Why do many historians omit the kingdom of Rheged and it's ruler Urien the Great when writing about the Anglo - Saxon settlement of Britain? I am not going to tell you why, go read it up for yourselves. It does prompt me to ask a similar question as to why we in Wales/Cymru do not make as much of Cunedda and the founding of Cymru as the Hungarians do of Adpar or the French of Charlemagne. There is a constant calling for more memorials to Llywelyn and Glyndwr but what of other great Welsh Kings and Princes as Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and not least Cunedda and sons, why not? We need similar on a grand scale for Cunedda and his sons as much as the Magyar Lord ADPAR and the Chiefs. Why not a grand and great in size statue of  CUNEDDA in Gwynedd possibly Caernarfon and, then each of his Sons memorialized in Counties of Wales named after them. Perhaps also in area of Allt Cunedda near Cydweli too, this then unifies concept of HEN TIROEDD CUNEDDA.

Some years back I and Sian visited Allt Cunedda (I have a post on
 this and photos somewhere) and it is pitiful. Here is the Story
 Archeolgists dug about there and took the Skeleton remains
 away, never returned and are now said to be 'LOST' the local 
farmers wife knew all about this and would like to see them
 brought back. We need to look into this again, then during WWI 
they built an Anti - Air Craft Gunnery Station Site close by 
(Remains Still there), Guess what they used the remains of 
ALLT CUNEDDA as it's foundations.   GET THIS: All that remains 
of ALLT CUNEDDA is a stone about size of 'STONE OF SCONE' 
or a step you would clean your boots on. Now this is a
 Metophor for the contracting 'Fro Cymraeg'.

ALL THIS IS VERY POTENT SYMBOLISM IF HANDLED CORRECTLY 
IN A WELL THOUGHT OUT AND PLANNED WAY BY SERIOUS 
PEOPLE NOT FLY BY NIGHT PATRIOTS OR 'IDJEETS' WHO 
WANT TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES ON fb. YES A 
PETITION IS NEEDED BUT MUCH BACK UP WORK NEEDS T
O BE DONE AS AN ARTICLE FOR A MAGAZINE AND LETTERS 
TO PRESS AND SOME ONE SOUND TO TALK ABOUT IT NOT LEAST 
TO THE MEDIA AND RE SUCH MAKE SURE THIS PROJECT AS A 
WIDE BERTH FROM THE PATRIOTIC FRINGE - THIS NEEDS TO
 BE A GREAT WELSH PROJECT TO TRUELLY TELL THE WELSH 
THEY ARE OF THE CYMRY OF CUNEDDA. To this end a 
Cymdeithas Cunedda be needed, maybe one could be 
established at the Eisteddfod and take it from there fast 
with in mind the New Heritage Local History Fund now available:

All Our Stories: Heritage Lottery Fund launches new funding programme. 04/04/
2012. Have you ever wondered what your local area was like in the past?
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So then to it, yes?

* Adpar and Cunedda:


* Charlemange and Cunedda:

* King Wenceslas also The Czech Legion Memorial.



Patriotic  Purpose


10 Feb 2011 ... A further discovery on Allt Cunedda, of what may be a cist containing a crouched skeleton, is recorded in The Welshman for 31st August 1888: ...

In Case I Missed Something.

Cunedda ap Edern, fl. 5th century; also known as Cunedda Wledig ("holder of
lands"), was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal ...
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another lesson in interpretation shapeimage_1_link_0. Cunedda has been ...
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Arthurian and Grail Poetry. Marwnad Cunedda or The Death-song of Cunedda.
This poem is taken from Llyfr Taliesin; but it is believed to be a much earlier work.
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Virtually every scholar and historian who speaks of the man for whom the cantref
of Meirionydd is named assures us he was the son of Tybion ap Cunedda.
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29 Jun 2007 ... The name 'Cunedda' derives from the Brythonic word counodagos, meaning '
good lord'. His genealogy is traced back to Padarn Beisrudd, ...
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3 Mar 2012 ... There is even a (tenuous) link given for Coel Hen to Arthur, via Coel's supposed
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CUNEDDA WLEDIG ( fl. 450? ), British prince . According to the ' Saxon
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Pedigrees of several noted Gwynedd families trace their ancestry to an otherwise
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Cuchulain, The Boyhood Deeds of - Cunedda. The figures beneath each entry
give reference numbers for the Bibliography · Next Section · Table Of Contents ...
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Einion ap Cunedda (c. 420-500; reigned from the 470s) (Latin: Engenius), also
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The hill of Allt Cunedda near Cydweli, Carmarthenshire suggests his campaigns
against the Irish extended from Gwynedd into to south-west Wales. Excavations ...
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which ...
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Carmarthen to Vale of Neath - Saturday Walkers Club.
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Thursday 12 July 2012

GRUFFYDD ap LLYWELYN THE LAST KING OF WALES - BETRAYED AS WAS LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD.









The death of the last king of Wales would nevertheless also lead to the ... in
mediaeval history, and both have published books and articles on Welsh history.
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A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging … ... The death of the last
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