Cuneglas. He is recorded as a son of Owain Danwyn

Owain Ddantgwyn

Owain Ddantgwyn is the popularly recognised form of the name of a prince of North Wales, probably a King of Rhos in the late 5th century.-Extant records:...

, a popular contender for an historical basis to the famous King Arthur

King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and...

. Both father and son were, according to one Old Welsh genealogical source, Kings of Rhos, later a Welsh cantref and afterwards a part of Denbighshire

Denbighshire

Denbighshire is a county in north-east Wales. It is named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales. Pontnewydd Palaeolithic site has remains of Neanderthals from 225,000 years...

, in mid-North Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. They lived in the early 6th century.

Cuneglas is one of the 'tyrants' denounced by the contemporary writer, Gildas

Gildas

Gildas was a 6th-century British cleric. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during this period. His renowned learning and literary style earned him the designation Gildas Sapiens...

, in his De Excidio Britanniae. This indignant monk calls him:

• "You bear, you rider and ruler of many, and guider of the chariot which is the receptacle of the bear"
• "You contempter of God and vilifier of his order"
• "You tawny butcher, as in the Latin tongue thy name signifies" (This is incorrect: his name means Blue Hound)
• one who raises war against men, indeed against his own countrymen, as well as against God
• one who has "thrown out of doors your wife" and lustfully desires "her detestable sister who had vowed unto God, the everlasting chastity of widowhood".

The "receptacle of the bear" is more generally interpreted as the "home of the bear". In Welsh, this might be Din Arth or Din Erth - "Fort of the Bear" - still the name of a Dark Age hillfort at Llandrillo-yn-Rhôs in Cynlas' old kingdom. Although there is also a Dinerth

Dinerth Castle

The Castle of Dinerth is a Welsh castle located near Aberarth, Ceredigion, west Wales .The ruins of the medieval timber castle can be found on a hill about 1½ miles up the valley from the seaside town of Aberarth...

 in Ceredigion

Ceredigion

Ceredigion is a county and former kingdom in mid-west Wales. As Cardiganshire , it was created in 1282, and was reconstituted as a county under that name in 1996, reverting to Ceredigion a day later...

.