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quo8 praedictus Brokannus ex uxore sua Gladewysa genuit his 

 noxninibus vocabantur, Nectanus et ceetera. 



Et venerandus vir Nectanus per quseque nemorosa dispendia 

 investigando querere ab biis repertus latronibus in loco, qui 

 adhuc hodie dicitur Nova Villa; ibi jam ecclesia in ejus 

 honore construitur, 15 kal. Julii capite truncatus est, et caput 

 suum propriis aceipiens manibus per medium ferme spacii 

 stadium usque ad fontem quo morabatur detulerit, ibique 

 sanguine circumlinitum sudori cuidam lapidi imposuit, cujus 

 adhuc CEedis et miraculi sanguinolenta in eodem lapide remanent 

 vestigia." 



This account leaves out a great deal that does not 

 comport either with monastic ideas or with first principles of 

 common morality. So far from Brychan being a model of 

 continence, he was a "loose fish," he had three wives and 

 concubines as well. His wives, according to the Welsh 

 genealogies were Brawst, Ehybrawst, and Eurbrawst ; he 

 seduced Banhadlwedd, daughter of the Prince of Powys with 

 whom he lived as foster son, and by her had an illegitimate son, 

 he had also sons by " a Spanish Woman," probably a Silurian 

 native;— these dusky Ivernians were fondly supposed to be 

 immigrants from Spain, because their tongue was the same as 

 that spoken by the Basques. 



Gwladys, moreover, was not the name of any wife ascribed 

 to him in the Welsh account, but she was his daughter, and the 

 most eminent of all. She was the wife of Gwynllyw Filwr and 

 mother of S. Cadoc. Brychan reigned from about 500 to 550. 



We cannot, however, by any means be sure that in the 

 Welsh Genealogies two Brychans have not been confounded 

 together. This has been pointed out by Ehys in his " Lives of 

 the Cambro-British Saints." In addition to Brychan of 

 Brecknock, there was a name-sake in Higher Gwent, who was 

 the son of Gwyngon, and grandson of Llywarch ap Tydwr. He 

 was the brother of S. Cynwyl and father of S. Dunawd and 

 S. Dubricius. 



There was a third Brychan, called by the Bretons, Fragan, 

 who migrated from Devon, or Cornwall, with his wife Gwen of 

 the Three Breasts, and they became the parents of S. Winwaloe, 

 S. Wethenoc, and S. James. 



