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{{Short description|King of Ceredigion (died 453)}}
{{About|the king of Ceredigion|other similarly named figures|Ceretic (disambiguation){{!}}Ceretic}}
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'''Ceredig ap Cunedda''' (died 453), was a possibly fictional or at least not well attested in reliable sources king of [[Kingdom of Ceredigion|Ceredigion]] in Wales.<ref name=Cambro>[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029417924 <!-- quote=ceredig. --> "Lives of the Cambro British saints"], p. 396, 1853, Rev. William Jenkins Rees</ref>

He may have been born c. 420 in the [[Brython]]ic kingdom of [[Manaw Gododdin]] (modern [[Lothian]] in [[Scotland]]), centred on the [[Firth of Forth]] in the area known as [[Hen Ogledd|Yr Hen Ogledd]].
Little is known of him. One of the sons of [[Cunedda]], grandfather of [[Saint David]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NnAlAAAAMAAJ&dq=ceredig+ap+cunedda&pg=PA238 The Cambrian, A Bi-Monthly Published in the interest of the Welsh people and their descendants in the United States, 1881, Vol. 1, 1881]</ref> according to [[Nennius]]' [[Historia Brittonum]], he arrived in what is now modern [[Wales]] from Gododdin with his father's family when they were invited to help ward off [[Ireland|Irish]] invaders. As a reward for his bravery, his father gave him the southernmost part of the territories in north-west Wales<ref>{{cite book|last=Baring-Gould|first=Sabine|authorlink=Sabine Baring-Gould|title=A Book of North Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofnorthwales00bari|year=1903|publisher=Methuen & Company|oclc=559701019}}</ref> reconquered from the Irish. The realm is traditionally supposed to have been called ''Ceredigion'' after him, which led to the name of modern [[Ceredigion]], one of the [[principal areas of Wales]].

He married [[Meleri]], one of the many daughters of King [[Brychan|Brychan Brycheiniog]] of Brycheiniog (now Brecknockshire).<ref name=EBK>{{cite web |url=http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/ceredccn.html |title=King Ceredig Ceredigion of Ceredigion  |last=Ford |first=David Nash |date=2001 |website=Early British Kingdoms |publisher=Nash Ford Publishing |access-date=25 July 2021}}</ref> Amongst their children was a daughter named Ina who is thought to be the [[Ina (Welsh saint)|Saint Ina]] to whom St Ina's Church in [[Llanina]] near [[New Quay]], Ceredigion is dedicated, and a son named Sanctus who in legend [[Rape|raped]] [[Saint Non]] and is the father of [[Saint David]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Baring-Gould|first1=Sabine|last2=Fisher|first2=John|title=Lives of the British Saints|date=1911|publisher=[[Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion]]|page=318|url=https://archive.org/stream/livesofbritishsa03bariuoft#page/350/mode/1up}}</ref>

== Footnotes ==
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== References ==
* [https://archive.org/details/cu31924029417924 Lives of the Cambro British saints], [[William Jenkins Rees]], Thomas Wakeman, 1835
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=NYwNAAAAIAAJ&q=ceredigion+cunedda A history of Wales from the earliest times], [[John Edward Lloyd]], 1911
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=NnAlAAAAMAAJ&dq=ceredig+ap+cunedda&pg=PA238 The Cambrian, A Bi-Monthly Published in the interest of the Welsh people and their descendants in the United States, 1881, Vol. 1, 1881]
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[[Category:British traditional history]]
[[Category:Britons of the North]]
[[Category:Monarchs of Ceredigion]]