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Following the Roman withdrawal from Britain, the area that would become St Davids was known in Ecclesiastical Latin as Meneva or Menevia and in Welsh as Mynyw. Some medieval texts state that the area was home to a cell, church or monastery founded by Saint Patrick around the year 470 AD, years before the birth of Saint David.
David ( Welsh: Dewi Sant; Latin: Davidus; c. 500 – c. 589) was a Welsh Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Mynyw during the 6th century. He is the patron saint of Wales. David was a native of Wales, and tradition has preserved a relatively large amount of detail about his life.
David died at Mynyw (St. Davids) on Tuesday 1st March AD 589 and was buried in his cathedral, where his relics are still venerated to this day. He must have been extremely old. Records of St. David seem to date back to the 8th century.
North Wales became Gwynedd, while South Wales became Dyfed, and these two states, along with Powys, formed the largest principalities in the surviving western British territories. They never in reality used the English term, 'kingdom'.
885 - Bishop Asser of Mynyw (St. David's), is summoned to the court of King Alfred of Wessex, having been expelled from his diocese by King Hyfaidd of Dyfed. He agrees to spend six months of the year in England and six in Wales.
Cynyr the Fair Bearded was a local lord in Dyfed, who probably ruled the Cantref of Pebidiog from one (or all) of the three places called Castell-Coch (Caer Gawch) near Mynyw (St. Davids).
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