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The kings of Dumnonia were the rulers of the large Brythonic kingdom of Dumnonia in the south-west of Great Britain during the Sub-Roman and early medieval periods.. A list of Dumnonian kings is one of the hardest of the major Dark Age kingdoms to accurately compile, as it is confused by Arthurian legend, complicated by strong associations with the kings of Wales and Brittany, and obscured by ...
Dumnonia is the Latinised name for a Brythonic kingdom that existed in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries CE in the more westerly parts of present-day South West England.
Saint Constantine's Church in Constantine, Cornwall, perhaps connected to the historical king of Dumnonia. The historical Constantine of Dumnonia may have influenced later traditions, known in southwestern Britain as well as in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, about a Saint Constantine who is usually said to have been a king who gave up his crown to become a monk.
Kings of Dumnonia The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia , the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset ) in the further parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.
Traditionally, Erbin was a King of Dumnonia, the son of Constantine Corneu and the father of Geraint. [2] He was the brother of Saint Digain, founder of the church at Llangernyw. [3] Erbin succeeded his father as King of Dumnonia around 443. Erbin chiefly appears in Geraint and Enid, one of the Three Welsh Romances of the Mabinogion.
In the west, Devon and Cornwall held out as the British kingdom of Dumnonia. Dumnonia had close cultural contacts with Christian Ireland, Wales, Romano-Celtic Brittany and Byzantium via the West Atlantic trade network, and there is exceptional archaeological evidence for Late Antique trading contacts at the stronghold of Tintagel in Cornwall. [24]
Geraint (/ ˈ ɡ ɛr aɪ n t / GHERR-eyent; died 710), known in Latin as Gerontius, was a king of Dumnonia who ruled in the early 8th century. During his reign, it is believed that Dumnonia came repeatedly into conflict with the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex.
Caradoc of Llancarfan, in his Historie of Cambria (History of Wales), notes that Bledric was one of the British leaders killed by King Æthelfrith of Northumbria and King Æthelberht of Kent at Bangor on the River Dee [5] in c.613, where he is described as the Prince of Devonshire and Cornwall.