en.unionpedia.org

Meirchion Gul, the Glossary

Index Meirchion Gul

Meirchion Gul was probably a late 5th-century king of Rheged, a Brythonic realm in the area of Sub-Roman Britain known as the Hen Ogledd (in the North of England and Southern Scotland today).[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, Catterick, North Yorkshire, Celtic Britons, Coel Hen, Hen Ogledd, Hywel Dda, Llywarch Hen, Middle Welsh, Northern England, Rheged, Sub-Roman Britain, Urien.

  2. 5th-century English monarchs
  3. 5th-century Scottish monarchs
  4. Monarchs of Rheged

Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd

Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd (The Descent of the Men of the North) is a brief Middle Welsh tract which claims to give the pedigrees of twenty 6th century rulers of the Hen Ogledd, the Brittonic-speaking parts of southern Scotland and northern England.

See Meirchion Gul and Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd

Catterick, North Yorkshire

Catterick is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in North Yorkshire, England.

See Meirchion Gul and Catterick, North Yorkshire

Celtic Britons

The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

See Meirchion Gul and Celtic Britons

Coel Hen

Coel (Old Welsh: Coil), also called Coel Hen (Coel the Old) and King Cole, is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages.

See Meirchion Gul and Coel Hen

Hen Ogledd

Yr Hen Ogledd, meaning the Old North, is the historical region that was inhabited by the Brittonic people of sub-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages, now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands, alongside the fellow Brittonic Celtic Kingdom of Elmet.

See Meirchion Gul and Hen Ogledd

Hywel Dda

Hywel ap Cadell, commonly known as Hywel Dda, which translates to Howel the Good in English, was a Welsh king who ruled the southern Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth and eventually came to rule most of Wales.

See Meirchion Gul and Hywel Dda

Llywarch Hen

Llywarch Hen ("Llywarch the Old"; c. 534 – c. 608), was a prince and poet of the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged, a ruling family in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain (modern southern Scotland and northern England). Meirchion Gul and Llywarch Hen are Monarchs of Rheged.

See Meirchion Gul and Llywarch Hen

Middle Welsh

Middle Welsh (Cymraeg Canol, Kymraec) is the label attached to the Welsh language of the 12th to 15th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period.

See Meirchion Gul and Middle Welsh

Northern England

Northern England, or the North of England, is a region that forms the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire.

See Meirchion Gul and Northern England

Rheged

Rheged was one of the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd ("Old North"), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages.

See Meirchion Gul and Rheged

Sub-Roman Britain

Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.

See Meirchion Gul and Sub-Roman Britain

Urien

Urien, often referred to as Urien Rheged or Uriens, was a late 6th-century king of Rheged, an early British kingdom of the Hen Ogledd (today's northern England and southern Scotland) of the House of Rheged. Meirchion Gul and Urien are Monarchs of Rheged.

See Meirchion Gul and Urien

See also

5th-century English monarchs

5th-century Scottish monarchs

Monarchs of Rheged

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meirchion_Gul