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Caradoc of Llancarfan (Welsh: Caradog o Lancarfan) was a Welsh cleric and author associated with Llancarfan in Wales in the 12th century. He is generally seen as the author of a Life of Gildas and a Life of Saint Cadog, in Latin.[1]

  1. ^ Lloyd, J.E. "Caradoc of Llancarfan". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2016.

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Caradoc of Llancarfan

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Caradoc of Llancarfan (Welsh: Caradog o Lancarfan) was a Welsh cleric and author associated with Llancarfan in Wales in the 12th century. He is generally...

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Llancarfan

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parish church, the site of Saint Cadoc's 6th-century clas, famed for its learning. Cainnech of Aghaboe, Caradoc of Llancarfan and many other Welsh holy...

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Gildas

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second "Life" of Gildas was written by Caradoc of Llancarfan, a friend of Geoffrey of Monmouth and his Norman patrons. However, Caradoc's work is most...

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Caradog

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figure from history and the Matter of Britain Caradoc of Llancarfan, twelfth century author of a Life of Gildas Saint Caradoc, 12th century Welsh hermit Griffith...

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King Arthur

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11th century). According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas's...

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Cadoc

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5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where...

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Guinevere

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of Glastonbury Abbey in 1091. Welsh cleric and author Caradoc of Llancarfan, who wrote his Life of Gildas sometime between 1130 and 1150, recounts her being...

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Welsh mythology

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number of well known vitae ("Lives") of post-Roman saints. Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan; of Saint Cadoc...

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Nest ferch Rhys

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Cadwgan and his men The earliest account, that of Caradoc of Llancarfan, relates that "At the instigation of the Devil, he [Owain] was moved by passion and...

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Saint Caradoc

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pp. 283-284. See J. S. P. Tatlock, “Caradoc of Llancarfan”, Speculum, A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, University of Chicago Press, Vol. XIII, April 1938...

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Little England beyond Wales

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dominant language of the area. Another contemporary writer, Caradoc of Llancarfan (fl. 1135), was more explicit: In the year 1108 the rage of the sea did overflow...

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Llywelyn ab Iorwerth

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Green, Longman, and Roberts. Caradoc of Llancarfan Bartrum, Peter C., ed. (1966). Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. University of Wales Press. Carpenter, David...

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Maleagant

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earliest version of the popular abduction-of-Guinevere motif appears in the early 12th-century Latin Life of Gildas by Caradoc of Llancarfan. In that text...

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Bledric ap Custennin

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Blethyn as given by Caradoc of Llancarfan. Caradoc of Llancarfan, in his Historie of Cambria (History of Wales), notes that Bledric was one of the British leaders...

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Hueil mab Caw

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rival of King Arthur's. He was one of the numerous sons of Caw of Prydyn and brother to Saint Gildas. The Latin Life of Gildas by Caradoc of Llancarfan describes...

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Insular monasticism

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covenants. Cainnech of Aghaboe, Caradoc of Llancarfan and many others studied there. Saint David (or Dewi) is the patron saint of Wales. Tradition holds...

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Kingdom of Gwynedd

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Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (reprint ed.). London: Longman Green. Caradoc of Llancarfan Lloyd, John Edward (1959). "Cunedda Wledig...

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Bibliography of King Arthur

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Santi Gildae by Caradoc of Llancarfan c. 1120 – c. 1130 (early version of Malegant-Guenivere abduction narrative.) Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth are the...

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Penychen

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ecclesiastical centres: the episcopal seat of Llandaf, and Llancarfan, a clas connected to the early author Caradoc of Llancarfan. Penychen lay between Senghenydd...

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Hywel Sele

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Story of the Last Prince of Wales. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 110. ISBN 9781445608761. Retrieved 8 April 2019. Saint Caradoc (of Llancarfan) (1832)...

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The Misfortunes of Elphin

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ultimately from the 12th-century Latin Vita Gildae by Caradoc of Llancarfan, probably via Joseph Ritson's Life of King Arthur (1825). The poems scattered through...

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Timeline of Cardiff history

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mentioned by Caradoc of Llancarfan in his book Brut y Tywysogion. 1126: Ralph "Prepositus de Kardi" took up office as the first Mayor of Cardiff. 1158:...

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History of Cardiff

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was recorded by Caradoc of Llancarfan in his book Brut y Tywysogion (Chronicle of the Princes). Cardiff Castle has been at the heart of the city ever since...

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Modena Cathedral

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Abduction of Guinevere is a very popular and ancient element of the Arthurian legend, first appearing in written form in Caradoc of Llancarfan's mid-12th-century...

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List of Welsh writers

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itinerant poet Caradoc of Llancarfan (12th century, L), writer and cleric Phil Carradice (born 1947, E), writer and broadcaster Casnodyn (first half of 14th century...

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Cardiff town walls

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Glamorgan, and was first mentioned in 1111 by Caradoc of Llancarfan in his book Brut y Tywysogion (Chronicle of the Princes). By 1184, Maurice de Berkeley...

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