37-1 Rhun "Hir" ap MAELGWN, son of Maelgwn ap Cadwallon and Gwallwen verch Afallach,was born about 492 in Wales. He died in 586. He married Perwyr verch RHUN.
"He is described as "a great, tall man with red-brown curly hair." He was a King abt 549 -580s in Gwynedd, Wales. In the early years of his reign, he was the most powerful king of his day in Britain, and could have perhaps become head of a pan-British kingdom. Around 560 he was challenged by King Elidyr of the Isle of Man, the husband of his sister, for control of Gwynedd and especially Anglesey. Elidyr failed and was killed by Rhun. Kingdoms to the north, particularly Strathclyde and Lothian ruled by Elidyr's cousins, may have felt trapped between Rhun and his half-brother Brude who now ruled the Picts, and wished to teach Rhun a lesson. They attacked Anglesey and sacked the town of Arfon on the mainland. However, they did not build upon their advantage and retreated, perhaps believing the attack was sufficient to damage Rhun's power and prestige. Instead Rhun amassed a huge army, perhaps the largest since the legendary King Arthur, and marched from Wales through what is now Lancashire to York, probably in the 560's. He was largely unopposed, and in effect demonstrated control over all of northern Wales and north Britain, and in alliance with Brude, into the lands of the Picts. Perhaps believing that he had made his point, but that his power base in Wales was not strong enough to take full control of the territory, he made peace with the King of York (Peredur), married his cousin Perwyr, and returned to Gwynedd. While this campaign lasted a year and passed into Welsh legend, nothing is heard of Rhun for the next twenty years of his rule -- suggesting prosperity, a strong kingdom, and relative peace with it's neighbors."
http://prometheusli.com/genealogy/Wales/d13464.htm#P13463
37-2
Perwyr
verch RHUN, daughter of Rhun of Great Wealth, was born about 496 in
Wales.
37-3
Frosti
KARASSON, KING IN KVENLAND, son of Kari Fornjotsson, King in Kvenland,was
born about 210 in Finland.
37-5
Ingvar
"The Tall" EYSTEINSSON, KING IN SWEDEN, son of Eystein Adilsson, King
in Sweden, was born about 616 in Sweden.
37-7
Gautrek
GAUTSSON was born about 618 in Sweden.
37-9
Eochaidh
I Buidhe, King of Scots, son of Edhan Aidan, was born about
477.
37-11
Ferreolus,
Duke of MOSELLE, son of Sigimerus I, Bishop of Auvergne,and Miss Tonantius,was
born about 465 in Moselle, France. He married Outeria.
37-12
Outeria,
was
born in 504 in Moselle, France.
37-13 Charibert I, King of PARIS, son of Clotaire I, King of France, and Ingonde,was born in 520 in Paris, France. He died on 7 May 570. He was buried in Abbaye de St. Vincent, Paris, France. He married Ingoberge.
"The eldest surviving son of Clotaire I and Ingonde, Charibert took possession
of the region with center at Paris upon the partition made after the death
of his father in late 561. During his reign the Huns plundered his kingdom.
Charibert was
excommunicated by Saint Germain, the bishop of Paris, after the king
illegally married Marcoüefe, a sister of his previous wife, Mirefleur.
Charibert died excommunicated in 567 or 568 or on May 7, 570. He left three
daughters and his three surviving brothers divided the kingdom of Paris."
http://lego70.tripod.com/frank/charibert1.htm
37-14
Ingoberge
was
born about 520 in Paris, France. She died in 589.
37-15 Colman, King of LEINSTER, son of Cairbre, King of Leinster, was born about 530 in Ireland. He died in 576.
"Colman, son of Carbri, chief of the fourth of the men of northern Leinster, in his youth took to wife a woman of rank, but since their habits did in no way agree, sent her away, and took another in her place. Now the woman thus dismissed was wise and dangerous in the magic arts, and being passionate against her husband, Colman, the chief, she brought to death all the children of the other by her incantations; for as soon as she heard that a son or daughter had been born to him, she would come from wherever she was to stand over the dun where the child lay, and sing magic songs, until the little creature was dead.
So, when a little son was born to him in his old age, he was straightway baptized, lest he should die through her witchcraft unchristened; and he was called Faolain. And then the chief his father sent him to Saint Kevin, that he might protect him by the strength of God from this woman, and bring him up in the ways of the world. And he offered him to Saint Kevin, promising that he and his seed after him should be buried by the house of Saint Kevin for ever, and should serve him, if Faolain should escape alive. And so Saint Kevin took the child gladly, and brought him up as a layman should be, even as his father had said; and he loved him dearly. But Saint Kevin knew not where to look for new milk to feed the small babe, because women and cows were far from his monastery; and he prayed to God to give him some assistance in the matter. And God sent Saint Kevin a doe from the mountain near by, and on her milk the babe Faolain was reared. Twice a day until the child was grown, the doe would come to Saint Kevin's monastery, and there be milked by one of the brethren, and go back in all gentleness to her pasture."
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0603.htm
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