• The Battle of Arfderydd (also known as Arderydd) was fought in medieval Britain in AD 573, according to the Annales Cambriae. The opposing armies are...
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    Myrddin Wyllt (category Britons of the North)
    history, for he is said to have gone mad after the Battle of Arfderydd (Arthuret) at which Rhydderch Hael of Strathclyde defeated the Brythonic king Gwenddoleu...
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    The Battle of Badon, also known as the Battle of Mons Badonicus, was purportedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Post-Roman Britain during the...
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    Taliesin (category Year of birth uncertain)
    poems refer, such as the Battle of Arfderydd (c. 573), are referred to in other sources. John T. Koch argues that the description of Easter in the praise...
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    Peredur (redirect from Sons of Eliffer)
    fame rests on their having fought in the Battle of Arfderydd. The Annales Cambriae report that this battle (bellum Armterid) was fought in 573, but gives...
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  • Vita Merlini (redirect from Life of Merlin)
    a wild man of the woods whose misfortunes are a punishment for his having caused a battle easily identifiable as the battle of Arfderydd; he is also...
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  • Ceidio (died c. 573) or Gwenddolau was a Brythonic king who ruled in Arfderydd (now Arthuret). This is in what is now south-west Scotland and north-west...
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    the year 573, that after "the battle of Arfderydd, between the sons of Eliffer and Gwenddolau son of Ceidio; in which battle Gwenddolau fell; Myrddin went...
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  • Lailoken (category Britons of the North)
    Wyllt, the Welsh forerunner of the Arthurian wizard Merlin. Myrddin is particularly associated with the Battle of Arfderydd in Cumberland (now Cumbria)...
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    gates of Ravenna. Sigibert I appoints Gregory to succeed his mother's cousin, Eufronius, as bishop of Tours (approximate date). The Battle of Arfderydd is...
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