52 ANCIENT INSCEIBED STONES. 



GwETHEYEN (Vortigern) the British Chief, about A.D. 447. 



GwETHEFTE (Vortimer) Fendigaid. 



Anna, daughter, married to a widower, Gynyr of Caer Gawch. 

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(A Son) GiSTLiAN (2 Daughters) Non Gwen 



M^- Sandde (Son of Ceredig ap Cunedda.) M-^- Seltf (Son of Geraint). 

 St. David • (died about A.D. 544). Cybi 



Assuming the correctness of this statement, St. Cuby was grand- 

 son to Geraint, nephew to St. Non, and first cousin to St. David. 

 His father, Selyf, was the person who is called, in the legendary 

 accounts, Solomon, Duke of Cornwall. f According to Usher and 

 others, Solomon was the father of Kebius (Cuby), but the date of the 

 death of the latter is thrown back more than a century, to A.D. 369. 

 — This error is partly attributable to a confusion between the Latin 

 Constantines ]: and the above Cystennyn Gorneu, — partly to his 

 having been supposed to have been ordained by St. Hilary, Bishop 

 of Poictiers, owing, probably, to the circumstance that one of Cybi's 



* Capgrave, the hagiologist of the 15th century, has a story of a casual 

 meeting of the Eang of the region called Ceretica, with a religious virgin, 

 called Nonnita, of great beauty, on whom, becoming violently enamoiu'ed, he 

 laid lustful hands, and the birth of St. Da"vad was the consequence, — the 

 mother " persevering in chastity both of mind and body, and sustaining her- 

 self only with bread and water." The name of Xanthus, evidently a merely 

 classical form of Sandde, is given to this King; and Ceretica is clearly the 

 Latin shape of Ceredig, (Cardigan). This tale has probably no better founda- 

 tion than the circumstance that St. David's mother was called Non ; but 

 if Sandde was like his father Ceredig, such an adventure would not have 

 been altogether foreign to his nature, as there is suflicient reason to believe 

 the latter to be the Coroticus inveighed against by St. Patrick as having 

 landed with a party of armed followers, and plundered a large district, where 

 the Saint had, on the very day before, baptized and confirmed a vast number 

 of converts, of whom several were murdered, and many more sold as slaves 

 to the Picts and Scots.- — The indignant letter in which Coroticus and his 

 followers are declared to be excommunicated, is the only authentic writing of 

 St. Patrick, besides the Confession, which has come down to us. 



■\ Rees' Welsh Saints, p. 232. 



X The favourite notion that Constantine the Great was born in Britain, 

 is untenable. — He was of full age A.D. 306, when he was proclaimed Em2Deror, 

 and his father Constautius visited Britain, for the first time, in 296. Helen 

 was divorced ten years before this, and is not therefore likely to have been a 

 Briton. — Eees, p. 98. 



