Brychan
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Brychan de Brycheiniog (ou de Brecknok) est un roi gallois vénéré comme saint, qui dut s'exiler avec ses vingt quatre enfants et terminer sa vie comme reclus en Cornouailles. Il est mort vers 500. Il est fêté le 6 avril.
Histoire et tradition
Le semi légendaire fondateur éponyme du royaume de Brycheiniog est selon la tradition, reputé être le fils d'un prince Irlandais et de Marchell considérée comme une fille de Tewdrig roi de Gwent bien que cette filiation soit chronologiquement incompatible.
La plupart de ses douze fils et de ses douze filles sont également vénérés comme saints. Ses fils sont :
Ses filles sont :
- Endelion ou Endelienta, Endellion, Endelient que la légende dit être une filleule du roi Arthur,
- Gwladys, fêtée le 29 mars
- Gwenn de Talgarth, (ou Blanche en français), fêtée le 18 octobre,
- Mabène, fêtée le 21 septembre et le 8 novembre,
- Marwenne,
- Morwenna,
- Ninnioc, fêtée le 4 juin,
- Thèthe, fêtée le 15 janvier.
Catégories :
- Saint catholique et orthodoxe
- Saint gallois
- Monarque gallois
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