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Dunlaing 



King of Leinster 



d. before 410. 



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I I 



lolladan AiliU 



K. of Leinster K. of Leinster 



bapt. by S. Patrick 460 bapt. by S. Patrick 460 



d. S06 d. 482. 



I 



Cormac 



K. of Leinster 



d-535 



Cairbre the Black S. lolladan S. Derchartain S. Etame 



K. of I^einster (Illogan) (Derwe of (Stithiana 



■;^=;— =;<l6 Feb. 2. Camborne) of Stythians) 



^ r I Mch. 8. July 6. 



Colman S. Credan 



K. of Iveinster disc, of S. Petrock, 



d. 576. May 11. 



Foelan 



sent as a babe 



to S. Kevin ; 



K. of L,einster 



d. 663. 



S. DocwiN, Abbot, Confessor. 



Docwin is another name for Cyngar, the brother of Selyf 

 or Solomon, King or Duke of Cornwall. He was the son of the 

 heroic Geraint who fell at Llongborth in 522, and the lovely Enid 

 daughter of the Lord of Caerleon. He was uncle of S. Cuby 

 and of S. Constantine. 



The life of S. Cyngar, or Congar, is given by Capgrave, 

 but it is an unsatisfactory biography based on no genuine 

 documents, betraying at every point the work of a hagiographer 

 making his bricks without straw. In place of historic facts 

 it is stuffed with pious commonplaces. 



To begin with, the writer makes him a son of " An 

 Emperor of Constantinople." He had heard of his descent 

 from Constantine the Blessed, who was actually his great- 

 grandfather, and he mistook this Cornish Constantine for 

 one of the emperors. 



Cyngar settled in Somersetshire, at Congresbury, but did 

 not remain there all his time. The district was marshy, but by 

 means of drainage he made it flourish like a garden. He then 

 moved into Glamorganshire, but before leaving, planted his 

 staff at Congresbury, where it grew into a stately yew. 



