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Guipno MAP DYFNWAL HEN (c. 580- )

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Guipno MAP DYFNWAL HEN, son of Dyfnwal HEN AP CINUIT OF ALT CLUT King of Alt Clut King of Alt Clut (446-530) and Arthwys VERCH CENEU OF RHEGED (c. 440-c. 559), was born c. 0580 in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He married Unknown.

 

 

Unknown was born c. 0588. She and Guipno MAP DYFNWAL HEN had the following children:

 

 

 

Beli l OF ALT CLUT King of Alt Clut (c. 609- ). Beli was born c. 0609 in Kingdom of Strathclyde. He married [unnamed person]. He married Tolorcan VERCH EANFRITH Queen of southern Picts.

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Dyfnwal HEN AP CINUIT OF ALT CLUT King of Alt Clut King of Alt Clut was born in 0446 in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He died in 0530 in Strathclyde. He married Arthwys VERCH CENEU OF RHEGED.

 

 

Dyfnwal Hen or Dumnagual Hen ("Dyfnwal the Old") was a ruler of the Brittonic kingdom of Alt Clut, later known as Strathclyde, probably sometime in the early 6th century. His biography is vague, but he was regarded as an important ancestor figure for several kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain. As an ancestor figure, he compares to Coel Hen, another obscure figure credited with founding a number of northern dynasties.

 

According to the Harleian genealogies, Dyfnwal was the son of a Cinuit, the son of Ceretic Guletic, probably his predecessors as king. The Harleian genealogies name three of his sons, each of whom formed a kingly line: Clinoch, Dyfnwal's successor as king of Alt Clut; Guipno (NB this is NOT the same name as "Gwyddno"), who fathered the later king Neithon; and Cynfelyn, a king of Eidyn or Edinburgh. The Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, a later genealogy of northern kings, gives a modified version of Dyfnwal's family tree. Here, he is the son of Idnyued and the grandson of Maxen Wledig, better known as the Roman usurper Magnus Maximus. The Bonedd follows the Harleian in making Dyfnwal the great-grandfather of Rhydderch Hael, a later king of Alt Clut, but his other descendants are altered significantly. A Gwyddno is included, but he listed as Dyfnwal's great-grandson rather than son, and he is specifically identified as Gwyddno Garanhir of the Taliesin legend. A highly confused track makes Dyfnwal the ancestor to the family of Áedán mac Gabráin, a 6th-century ruler of the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata.

 

 

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Arthwys VERCH CENEU OF RHEGED was born c. 0440 in Scotland. She died c. 0559 in Alba, Romania. She was buried in Alba.

 

 

When Arthwys verch Ceneu of Rheged was born about 0440, in Scotland, her father, Saint Ceneu ap Coel III Hen, was 62 and her mother, Queen Generis verch Coel Hen "Candalou", was 65. She married King Dyfnwal Hen ap Cinuit of Alt Clut about 0470, in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She died about 0559, in Alba, Romania, at the age of 121, and was buried in Alba, Romania.

 

 

Dyfnwal HEN AP CINUIT OF ALT CLUT King of Alt Clut and Arthwys VERCH CENEU OF RHEGED had the following children:

 

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Guipno MAP DYFNWAL HEN (c. 580- )