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- The early Welsh pedigrees cite a "Dimet map Maxim gulecic" and a "Anthun map Maxim gulecic", while medieval manuscripts refer to a "Antoni ap Maxen" and a "Dunawt ap Maxen Wledig". Each of these citations refer to a man whose Latin name was Antonius Donatus Gregorus whom the Welsh called Anwn Dynod.
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He and his successors have been given Welsh names by later chroniclers (Anwn Dynod in his case, 'Anwn' from 'Antonius' and 'Dynod' from 'Donatus'), but it is much more likely that during their own lifetimes they bear Latinised names and conduct themselves as Romans. Some elements of the life of Antonius may later be incorporated into the ...
The father of Clydwyn was, in modern spelling, Ednyfed and he was the son of Antonius Donatus, a name occurring in pedigrees variously as Anthun, Antoni or Dunawt and modernized as Anwn Dynod.
Annun is called Dynod in some pedigrees and it has been suggested that he was called Antonius Donatus, having both a Latin and a British name.
In the final years of Roman rule in Britain, there was a hybrid family headed by Anwn Dynod [4], whose father was the son of the Roman Emperor and whose mother was the daughter of the king of north Wales. One grandson of Anwn had relocated to Dyfed and intermarried with the Deisi tribe.
Jan 8, 2023 · Anwn Dynod is named "Dimet map Maxim gulecic" and "Anthun map Maxim gulecic" in early Welsh pedigrees, and "Antoni ap Maxen or Dunawt ap Maxen Wledig" in medival sources. His Latin name was Antonius Donatus Gregorus.
The popular life of Magnus Maximus (known as Macsen Wledig in Welsh, Prince Macsen, or 'Imperator') says he was the son of a Romano-Briton named Lolelinus (Welsh 'Llywelyn'), who had travelled to Rome to take up a seat as an imperial senator.
