Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameMrs. (Cadwaladr Ap) (Catwallon) 
Birthabt 639, Wales
Spouses
ChildrenIdwal ‘lwrch” Ap (~664-712)
Notes for Cadwaladr ‘Fendigaid” Ap (Spouse 1)
Cadwaladr of Gwynedd, the last king of the Britons, was killed in Northumbria in 682. Until his death, an ultimate British victory over the Germanic invaders was entirely possible. The memory of this alternative outcome stayed alive among the Welsh, and was as powerful as the memory of King Arthur, an earlier British fighter against the eastern invaders.
Notes:
Bartrum's "Welsh Genealogies".
Bartrum's "Welsh Classical Dictionary".
He is first mentioned in the Historia Brittonum: "Osguid son of Eadlfrid reigned 28 years and 6 months. While he was reigning there came a pestilence on men, CATGUALART the while reigning among the Britons after his father, and in it he perished." Oswy was king of Bernicia 642-671. The pestilence is mentioned by Bede as occuring in 664 (Hist. Eccles, III.27). This pestilence is post-dated in the Annales Cambriae to 682, but the authority is inferior to HB.
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth CADWALADR's mother was a sister of Penda, king of Mercia, whom CADWALLON married when he made an alliance with Penda (HRB XII.14, see also ByA 28a). This was probably about AD 632. If this is correct Cadwaladr could not have been born before 633, nor later than 635, the year after the death of CADWALLON. Thus he would be too young to succeed CADWALLON as king of Gwynedd. This is somewhat confirmed by the fact that a certain Cadafael (d. 655?) appears as king at this time.
Geoffrey of Monmouth mentions the plague of 664-5 but pretends that CADWALADR survived it by retiring to Armorica, where he was recieved by the fictitious king Alan. He finally went to Rome where he died in the year 689 (HRB XII.15-18). This, however, is due to the mistaken identification of CADWALADR with Ceadwalla, king of Wessex, who died in Rome in 689. CADWALADR FENDIGAID is the last of the kings included in the tract "the Twenty-four Mightiest Kings," where we are told that he reigned eleven years. Geoffrey says that after the death of CADWALADR the Britons never recovered the "Monarchy of the Island," by which he seems to mean a claim to an overlordship over all the kings of Britain. Thus CADWALADR has often been styled "the last King of the Britons."
According to Peniarth MS 270 p.246 (late 16th century) the wife of Cadwaladr and mother of Idwal Iwrch was an un-named daughter of Alan, king of Llydaw [i.e., Armorica?]. Similarly Cardiff MS.2.136 and Cardiff MS.5.6 p.30. William Llyn in Peniarth MS.131 p.161 calls her Agatha but makes her mother of Rhodri Molwynog (son of Idwal Iwrch).
Notes:
Bartrum's "Welsh Genealogies".
Bartrum's "Welsh Classical Dictionary".
He is first mentioned in the Historia Brittonum: "Osguid son of Eadlfrid reigned 28 years and 6 months. While he was reigning there came a pestilence on men, CATGUALART the while reigning among the Britons after his father, and in it he perished." Oswy was king of Bernicia 642-671. The pestilence is mentioned by Bede as occuring in 664 (Hist. Eccles, III.27). This pestilence is post-dated in the Annales Cambriae to 682, but the authority is inferior to HB.
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth CADWALADR's mother was a sister of Penda, king of Mercia, whom CADWALLON married when he made an alliance with Penda (HRB XII.14, see also ByA 28a). This was probably about AD 632. If this is correct Cadwaladr could not have been born before 633, nor later than 635, the year after the death of CADWALLON. Thus he would be too young to succeed CADWALLON as king of Gwynedd. This is somewhat confirmed by the fact that a certain Cadafael (d. 655?) appears as king at this time.
Geoffrey of Monmouth mentions the plague of 664-5 but pretends that CADWALADR survived it by retiring to Armorica, where he was recieved by the fictitious king Alan. He finally went to Rome where he died in the year 689 (HRB XII.15-18). This, however, is due to the mistaken identification of CADWALADR with Ceadwalla, king of Wessex, who died in Rome in 689. CADWALADR FENDIGAID is the last of the kings included in the tract "the Twenty-four Mightiest Kings," where we are told that he reigned eleven years. Geoffrey says that after the death of CADWALADR the Britons never recovered the "Monarchy of the Island," by which he seems to mean a claim to an overlordship over all the kings of Britain. Thus CADWALADR has often been styled "the last King of the Britons."
According to Peniarth MS 270 p.246 (late 16th century) the wife of Cadwaladr and mother of Idwal Iwrch was an un-named daughter of Alan, king of Llydaw [i.e., Armorica?]. Similarly Cardiff MS.2.136 and Cardiff MS.5.6 p.30. William Llyn in Peniarth MS.131 p.161 calls her Agatha but makes her mother of Rhodri Molwynog (son of Idwal Iwrch).