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| Name |
Bran ap Llyr |
| Nickname |
The Blessed |
| Birth |
0023 BC |
Ewias, Herefordshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
LDWG-897 |
| Person ID |
I15234 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
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- He was a Spiritual leader - Solvereign or a Bishop.
Bran, King of Siluria, also commander of the British fleet. In the yea r A .D. 36 he resigned the crown to his son Caradoc and became Arch-Drui d o f the college of Siluria, where he remained some years until called u po n to be a hostage for his son. During his seven years in Rome he becam e t he first royal convert to Christianity, and was baptized by the Apost le P aul, as was his son Caradoc and the latter's two sons, Cyllinus an d Cynon . Henceforth he was known as Bran the Blessed Sovereign. "He wa s the firs t to bring the faith of Christ to the Cymry." His recorded pro verb is: "T here is no good apart from God." He introduced the use of vel lum into Bri tain.
BRAN The Blessed. Bran Fendigaid ap Llyr Llediaith. (Bran Vendigaid, Ben d igeid Vran, Bran Fendigaid, Bendigeidfran, Branovices, Bendigeiduran, B en digeid = Blessed). (Geoffrey of Monmoth confuses him with Bren, Brennu s)( Often mixed with Bron, who is a separate person of later date) (Ofte n mix ed together with a later mythological creation called The Fisher-Ki ng). T he name "Bran" translates from Welsh as "raven". King of Siluria ( now Mon mouthshire), and king of Britain in Welsh mythology.
Born about 60 A.D. [6 A.D.?] (21 B.C.-S4)(29 B.C.-S7); son of LLYR Lledi a ith (King Lear) ap Baran and Penarddun. Some sources say that Iweriad d i s the mother of Bran and Branwen. Said to have became King of Burgund y i n right of his wife, the sole heiress of its royal house .
Since his son Caradawg is often confused with Caradoc (Caractacus), wh o w as taken to Rome; Bran is often confused with Cunobelin. The story th at B ran was taken as a captive to Rome where he joined the household o f St. P aul, returning to Britain with Aristobulus and Joseph of Arimathe a some y ears later, and thus becoming among the first to introduce Chris tianity t o the Island, hence his epithet of "the Blessed;" is a result o f this con fusion, and is a late 17th century fabrication based on misinf ormation.
He married Enygeus, a sister of Casswallan, who was his mother’s brothe r . [He married his mother’s sister?]. Casswallan was a British king i n 6 2 A.D., and was made commander of all British forces in Caesar’s firs t in vasion in 55 B.C. He was forced to pay tribute and died in 48 B.C.
He is often said to have as a wife Anna, the daughter of St. Joseph of A r imathea, probably through confusion with his grandmother, Beli Mawr's w if e. . Bran was said to have been an early King of the Silures trib e o f Gwent. His castle was Corbenic or Castell Dinas Bran, the later hom e o f the later Kings of Powys. Both names deriving from the word Raven o r Cr ow. . In Welch mythological tales he is described to be a giant , o f such a large size that no house could contain him. In Celtic mythol ogy , Bran appears as a semi-humanized giant residing at Castell Dinas Br an . There appears to be no archaeological evidence for his worship. . G eoffrey of Monmouth transformed him into an early British King named B re nnius, though his story probably relates to King Bran Hen of Bryneic h . . Bran was ruler of a large area of southeastern Britain from abo u t 1 A.D. to about 42 A.D. Bran was King of Siluria, also commander of t h e British fleet. In the year A.D. 36 he resigned the crown to his son C ar adoc and became Arch-Druid of the college of Siluria, where he remaine d s ome years.
He is attributed with the saying, “Let him who is a chief be a bridge.”
Bran Fendigaid ap Llyr Llediaith (Bran The Blessed), King of Siluria . B orn about 60 AD. Said to have introduced Christianity to the nation o f th e Cymry from Rome, where he was seven years a hostage. . In Welsh my t h, Bran was said to have been killed while leading an invasion of Irela nd . Bran was said to have instructed his men to bury his head in the Whi t e Mount in London, where it would ward off invasion as long as it remai ne d undisturbed. (King Arthur is said to have had the head removed fro m th e site, saying that Britain should be protected by the valour of it s peop le rather than by supernatural means.). According to a manuscrip t preserv ed in the Harleian Collection at the British Museum, Bran ab Ll yr also sh ared the captivity of his family, and was conveyed with them t o Rome, whe re he was detained as a hostage for the peaceable conduct o f the valian t Caractacus, who is said to have been permitted, with his w ife and daugh ter, to return immediately to Britain. After remaining at R ome for seve n years, Bran at length received permission to return to hi s native count ry; and having, during his stay in Italy, been converted t o Christianity , he was the means of introducing that religion into Brita in, and on tha t account was called Vendigeid, or "the Blessed: " he die d about the yea r 80. . There were three holy families in the Isle of Bri tain. The fi rst was the family of Bran the Blessed, ths son of Llyr Lled iaith; for Br an was the first who brought the faith of Christ to this is land from Rome . He was imprisoned through the treachery of Aregwedd Föed dawg,[2] the da ughter of Afarwy[3] the son of Lludd. The second was th e family of Cynedd a Wledig, who first gave land and privilege to God an d the saints in th e Isle of Britain. The third was Brychan of Brecknocks hire, who educate d his children and grandchildren in learning and genero sity, that they mi ght be able to share the faith in Christ with the Camb rians, where they w ere without faith. .
Branwen. (daughter). (or Bronwen, the "white-bosomed," as she is mor e f requently called).
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