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Rhun ap Urien

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Son of Urien ap Cynfarch, Brenin Rhegid and Modron verch Afallach
Father of Royth ap Rhun
Brother of Rhiwallon ap Urien; Elffin ap Urien; Morfudd ferch Urien Rheged; Owain mab Urien; Cadell . ap Urien, Saint and 2 others

Occupation: Preached christianity in Northumbria before the mission of Paulinus
Managed by: Paul Douglas Van Dillen
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About Rhun ap Urien

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173393042914 (February 5, 2023; Anne Brannen, curator)

Brady, Lindy. (2017). Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England excerpt RE Rhun ap Urien. (Also: Britannia Antiqua
“Welsh texts preserve some traditions about Edwin’s youth that open another window into the mixed Anglo-Welsh culture of the borderlands. Edwin was exiled during his youth, and according to Welsh sources, he spent this time in Wales, where he was raised with Cadwallon at the court of his father Cadfan in Gwynedd and baptized by Rhun ap Urien of Rheged.[13] The story that Edwin was fostered by Cadwallon’s father Cadfan is recorded in Reginald of Durham’s Life of St Oswald and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniæ, and Rachel Bromwich has argued for echoes of this tradition in the early Welsh verse as well.[14]...
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A separate tradition preserved in the Annales Cambriæ and Historia Brittonum also reflects a mixed Anglo-Welsh culture in the borderlands by recording – in contrast to Bede’s famous narrative of Edwin’s conversion, which takes up a large part of Book II of the Historia Ecclesiastica – Edwin’s earlier baptism by Rhun ap Urien of Rheged. The Annales Cambiæ records that “Etguin baptizatus est, et Run filius Urbgen baptizavit eum” (Edwin is baptised, and Rhun son of Urien baptised him).[16] The Historia Brittonum preserves a slightly longer narrative: “Eadguin vero in sequenti Pasca baptismum suscepit et duodecim milia hominum baptizati sunt cum eo. Si quis scire voluerit quis eos baptizavit, Rum map Urbgen baptizavit eos, et per quadraginta dies non cessavit baptizare omne genus ambronum et per prædicationem illius multi crediderunt in Christo” (Edwin was baptised at the Easter following, and twelve thousand men were baptised with him. If anyone wants to know who baptised them, Rhun son of Urien baptised them, and for forty days on end, he went on baptising the whole nation of the thugs, and through his teaching, many of them believed in Christ).[17]

Jones Celtic Encyclopedia (2006) Rhun ap Urien

Morris,Lewis and Daniel Silvan Evans. (1878) Cambrian Archaeological Association "Celtic Remains". pp. xlvii, 378.

Hefenfelth PW: Rhun ap Urien of Rheged

David Nash Ford's Early British Kingdoms Prince Rhun of North Rheged

Starr, Brian (2012) The Life of Saint Brychan. Chart 12 of St. Nyfain’s Descent to St. Comgan, St, Oswin, St Kentigern and St. Elfleda.

Rhun ap Urien
FATHER: Urien "Rheged" ap Cynfarch "Oer", born about 0491 South Reged, Britain
MOTHER: Modron verch Afallach, born about 0497 Wales
SIBLINGS: a) Pasgen ap Urien born about 0529 Wales; b) Owain ap Urien
SPOUSE: unknown
CHILDREN: Rhoeth ap Rhun
SOURCES: 1. LDS; 2. Ancestry.com; 3. "Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Great Britain" by Mike Ashley

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