Cadrawd Calchfynydd
Encyclopedia
Cadrawd Calchfynydd was king of the obscure Brython
ic kingdom of Calchfynydd in the 6th century.
He was the son of King Cynwyd Cynwydion, possibly also of Calchfynydd. He probably succeeded his father around 545. If his kingdom were in Northern Britain
, the Angles
of Bernicia
may have taken it over in 571.
Brython
The Britons were the Celtic people culturally dominating Great Britain from the Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages. They spoke the Insular Celtic language known as British or Brythonic...
ic kingdom of Calchfynydd in the 6th century.
He was the son of King Cynwyd Cynwydion, possibly also of Calchfynydd. He probably succeeded his father around 545. If his kingdom were in Northern Britain
Hen Ogledd
Yr Hen Ogledd is a Welsh term used by scholars to refer to those parts of what is now northern England and southern Scotland in the years between 500 and the Viking invasions of c. 800, with particular interest in the Brythonic-speaking peoples who lived there.The term is derived from heroic...
, the Angles
Angles
The Angles is a modern English term for a Germanic people who took their name from the ancestral cultural region of Angeln, a district located in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany...
of Bernicia
Bernicia
Bernicia was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England....
may have taken it over in 571.