KENTIGERN
(Welsh
CYNDEYRN
), or
MUNGO
(
518?
-
603
),
saint, the founder of Glasgow
.
He appears in the
Welsh
genealogies as
Cyndeyrn
, son of
Owain ab Urien
and grandson of
Urien
(of)
Rheged
;
Owain
is an important figure in the romances included in the ‘
Red Book of Hergest
,’ and he and his father,
Urien
, figure in the early
Welsh
poems which recount the struggles of the
North British princes
against
Hussa
the son of
Ida
— see the articles
Llywarch Hen
and
Taliesin
. The family, however, is associated with
Strathclyde
, not with
Wales
in our sense of that name; and
S.
Kentigern
's sole claim to inclusion in the present work is the not too well substantiated tradition which makes him the
founder of the monastery and see
of
S. Asaph
— on this matter, see the article
Asaph
. He d. on
13 Jan.
, probably in
603
—
Ann. C.
, with less probability, has
612
.
Bibliography:
-
The Lives of the British Saints
, ii, 231-40;
-
J. E. Lloyd
,
A History of Wales
, 166;
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
Another saint of this name has given his name to
Llangyndeyrn, Carms.
Late-mediaeval genealogies make him the son of
S.
Cyngar ap Garthog ap Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig
(q.v.); his feast was on
25 July, O.S.
— the patronal fair at
Llangyndeyrn
is now held on
5 and 6 Aug.
His father,
Cyngar
, should not be confused with the
saint
Cyngar
/
Docwin
/
Dochau
on whom there is a note in the present work.
Bibliography:
-
The Lives of the British Saints
, ii, 240, 248.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
