Kinddilan ( Kinddilan ap Kindruin ; Wall. Cynddylan or Wall. Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn ; died in 641 [1] or 656) - the ruler of Pengwern (620–656), the son and heir of the Great Kindruin . The acts of Kinddilan are known from two Welsh poems, “Song of the Death of Kindilan” ( Wall. Marwnad Cynddylan ) and “Crying Heled” (Heled - Kindilan's sister). The poem makes it clear that the Cadell dynasty was a rival of Kinddilan [2] .
| Kinddilan | |||||||
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| wall. Cynddylan | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Kindruin the Great | ||||||
| Successor | Caranvale up Kinddilan | ||||||
| Death | 656 | ||||||
| Father | Kindruin the Great | ||||||
| Children | Caranvale up Kinddilan | ||||||
Biography
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In 620, Kinddilan's father died and he succeeded him in Pengvern. Kinddilan moved the capital of Penguern to a safer place, Llys Pengwern, which historians identify with Shrewsbury or Bert.
Kinddilan was at enmity with Northumbria and entered into an alliance with the Penda of Mercia , with whom they began to fight against it. In 642, the Allied army defeated Oswald of Northumbria at the Battle of Mays-Kogwi (modern Ozuestri), after which Pengvern lived in relative peace for 14 years.
Doom
In 656, after the death of Penda, the emboldened Oswiu , the brother of Oswald, attacked Pengvern and captured its capital. Kinddilan with several brothers (including Eluan [3] ) died in battle and was buried in Eglvisseu Bassa (modern Baschurch in Shropshire). The surviving members of the royal family found shelter with relatives in Powys .
The elegy of Kinddilan, composed by his sister Heledd, has survived:
| Kinddilan's palace is dark and empty. How sad it is for me to see him When my brother is not there! Kinddilan's palace is quiet in the evening. Our ruler fell in the war. God, what should I do now? Only the cry of an eagle from Ely He got his prey, He drank blood from his brother’s heart ... [4] |
The battle of the Vinvaed River , in which Oswiu defeated and killed Penda, is a common identification of the battle in which Kinddilan died [5] . However, in the “Cry for the Death of Kinddilan” (lines 42–62), the battle in which he died refers to the big battle near Lichfield , in the territory of Mercia, it is not known exactly when it happened, but, presumably, after the death of Penda [6 ] .
Notes
- ↑ Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn . Date of treatment November 2, 2018. Archived on June 25, 2017.
- ↑ John T. Koch, 'Cynddylan fab Cyndrwyn', in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia , ed. by John T. Koch (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 535-536.
- ↑ Glastening: Dynastic Origins
- ↑ Erlichman V.D. King Arthur.
- ↑ Jenny Rowland, Early Welsh Saga Poetry: A Study and Edition of the 'Englynion' (Cambridge: Brewer, 1990), pp. 135; John T. Koch, 'Cynddylan fab Cyndrwyn', in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia , ed. by John T. Koch (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 535-536.
- ↑ Patrick Sims-Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England 600-800 , Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 29.
Literature
- Jones, R. Harries (1868a), Powys-land in the time of Prince Cynddylan (part 1) , " Collections, historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire ", Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire (London: J. Russel Smith). - T. I: 433–472, 1868 , < https://books.google.com/books?id=dy4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA433 > - The Elegy of Llywarch Hen , with annotation and discussion
- Jones, R. Harries (1868), Powys-land in the time of Prince Cynddylan (part 2) , " Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire ", Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire (London: J. Russel Smith). - T. II: 1–41, 1869 , < https://books.google.com/books?id=tS4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 >
- Remfry, PM, Whittington Castle and the families of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, Peverel, Maminot, Powys and Fitz Warin ( ISBN 1-899376-80-1 )
- Marwnad Cynddylan in Welsh and English.
- Canu Heledd in Welsh and English (click on the links in the frame to get to each section of the poem).
- The Death-song of Cynddylan (MS NLW4973).
- Jenny Rowland Early Welsh Saga Poetry: a study and edition of the englynion (Caergrawnt: DS Brewer, 1990)
- Ifor Williams (gol.) Canu Llywarch Hen: gyda rhagymadrodd a nodiadau (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1935)