Meirchion Gul "The Lean" ap Gwrwst, King of Rheged

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173392948868 (February 5, 2023; Anne Brannen, curator)

See Darrell Wolcott, http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id93.html, "Pedigree of the Ancient Lords of Ial," for the untangling of these lines. (April 21, 2016, Anne Brannen, curator)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Rethinking the Gwent Pedigrees; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id24.html. (Steven Ferry, February 20, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Pedigree of the Ancient Lords of Ial; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id93.html. (Steven Ferry, April 6, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Llewelyn ap Hoedliw, Lord of Is Cerdin; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id154.html. (Steven Ferry, September 11, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Harleian Ms 3859; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id129.html. (Steven Ferry, March 8, 2021.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Foundations of 'The Men of the North' - Part 2; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id279.html. (Steven Ferry, July 9, 2021.)

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ID: I51194

Name: Merichion"Gul" ap GWRWST

Given Name: Merichion"Gul" ap

Surname: Gwrwst

Sex: M

Change Date: 13 MAY 2009

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Birth: 430 in South Reged, Britain

Endowment: 5 JUN 1930

Reference Number: > 283 WEL

Death: Y

Father: Gwrwst "Ledlwm" ap CENEU b: 400 in South Reged, Britain

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Children

Cynfarch "Oer" ap MEIRCHION b: 459 in South Reged, Britain

Elidir "Lydanwyn" ap MEIRCHION b: 457 in South Reged, Britain
Idno ap MEIRCHION b: ABT 455 in , South Reged, Britain
Sources:

Abbrev: Pedigree Resource File CD 6

Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 6 (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)serve, Inc., 1999)serve, Inc., 1999).

Repository:

First name aka 'Meirchaum' or Merchiaun'.

Next to nothing is known about Cynfarch. He appears in the Old Welsh pedigrees of the Brythonic 'Men of the North' as the son of the equally obscure Meirchion Gul (Marcianus the Lean) and father of the slightly better documented Urien Rheged. His name was well remembered however and his family were known as the 'Cynferchyn' in his honour. His unflattering epithet Oer means 'the Dismal'.

It is assumed that Cynfarch ruled in Rheged before Urien. Accepting H.M. Chadwick's suggestion that Senyllt ap Dingad was a king of Galloway, expelled to the Isle of Man around 550, David Nash Ford suggests that Cynfarch was his oppressor. Hence the apparent 'Rheged' placename at Dunragit near Stranraer and tales of Mark ap Meirchion (or Cun-mark ap Meirchion) in the same area. He may also have been a participant in the Battle of Arfderydd in 573.

wikipedia.com

Notes: HRM King Meirchion Gul was probably a late 5th-century king of Rheged, a Brythonic realm in the area of sub-Roman known as the Hen Ogledd (in the North of England and Southern Scotland today). Next to nothing is known about HRM King Meirchion, although his epithet means the Lean. He appears in the Middle Welsh genealogical text Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd as the son of the equally obscure Gwrwst Lledlwm, a grandson of Coel Hen, and grandfather of renowned Urien Rheged. He is assumed, like Urien, to have ruled Rheged, including Catterick. His two sons appear at the head of two later dynasties. Cynfarch Oer was Urien's father. Another son, Elidyr Lydanwyn (the Stout and Handsome), was the ruler of Rheged, accoriding to the Gwynedd version of Hywel Dda's 'Welsh laws'. He was the father of Llywarch Hen. Reference: Rachel Bromwich (gol.), Trioedd Ynys Prydein (Cardiff, 1961; republished 1991). Source: http://www.wikipedia.org