Forty-First Generation
41-1 Cunedda "Wledig" ap EDERN, son of Cunneda ap Edern, was born about 386 in Cardigan, Wales. He married Gwawl verch COEL in North Wales.
"King Cunedda was born about 400. He was a leader of the tribes between 430 and 450 in Votadina. This territory later became Bernicia and Lothian in southwestern Scotland. He probably was not native to these tribes, but achieved this command through his grandfather, Paternus, and his father, Eternus, deriving it from Roman authority. When he removed south to Wales, this command was placed under his eldest son, Tybion. He was a lord and King after 450 in north Wales, in the territory of the Venedotians (Venedos). This territory of the Venedotians in north Wales later became the core of the later kingdom of Gwynedd. It is not certain where Cunedda established his base, though the old Roman fort at Chester is the most likely. His role was probably to protect Wales from invasions of the Irish. Cunedda was largely successful in holding the Irish at bay, although he apparently was never able to drive them out of Demetia in south-west Wales. He died between 460 and 470. He was also known as Cunedda the Lion. The name Cunedda is known today as Kenneth, and derives from the Celtic Counodagos, meaning "great lord," and is related to the later name Cinead, meaning "born of fire." There is much debate among academics as to whether Cunedda actually existed, and especially of his North Britain/Roman origins. By the 9th century, he had become firmly imbedded in the foundation legends of Gwynedd, a time when the rulers of Gwynedd were advancing their claims of primacy over all of Wales and Cunedda as a pan-Welsh figure.
He was married to Gwawl (daughter of Coel Hen and Ystradwal) between 430 and 450. While tradition gives him nine sons, from whom territories of north and central Wales derive their names, it is not until the 10th century that genealogies link them to Cunedda. It is therefore uncertain how many children Cunedda actually had, and how these were linked to later generations of rulers. It is uncertain whether the territories were named for the tradition of the sons, or the names of the sons were derived from the territories."
http://prometheusli.com/genealogy/Wales/d13468.htm#P13467
41-2
Gwawl
verch COEL, daughter of Coel Hen, High King of Northern Britain, was
born about 388 in Wales.
41-3
Egil
AUNSSON, KING IN SWEDEN, son of Aun Jorundsson, King in Uppsala,was
born about 530 in Sweden.
41-5
Halfdan
FRODASSON, son of Frodi Fridleifsson, was born about 503 in
Denmark. He married Sigris about 523 in Denmark.
41-6
Sigris
was born about 507 in Denmark.
41-7
Muredach,
son of Muredach, was born about 363. He married Marca.
41-8
Marca
was born about 368.
41-9
Marcomir,
Duke of the East FRANKS, son of Clodius, Duke of the East Franks,
was born about 347 in Germany. He died in 404.
41-11
Genebald,
Duke of the East FRANKS, was born about 354 in France. He died about
419.
41-13 Mérovée, King of FRANCE, son of Clodion, Duke of the East Franks, and Basina, Princess of the Thuringians, was born about 415 in France. He died in 457/458. He married Vérica.
"Mérovée was probably the relative or the son of Clodion. He governed the Salian Franks, from whom Frankish tradition held the Merovingian dynasty to have taken its name. Nothing definite is known of Mérovée's life. He is mentioned in Gregory of Tours's History of the Franks and, according to later sources, fought along with Ætius and king of the Visigoths Theodoric I against Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451). Mérovée expanded the borders of his kingdom to the Roman provinces Belgica Secunda and Germania."
http://lego70.tripod.com/frank/merovee.htm
41-14
Vérica
was born about 419 in Westphalia, Germany.
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