¹ It is generally accepted that the man known to Welsh tradition as Cunedda Wledig was a Romanized Briton, almost certainly a Christian, and possibly associated with the office of Dux Britanniarum, Sometime before the year AD 400, he came, presumably under Roman auspices, from the district of the Otadini or Votadini in South Scotland, into Venedotia (N. Wales). His greatgrandfather, his grandfather, his father and three of his nine(?) sons and one of his grandsons bore Roman names; two of which, Donatus and Marianus, are said to be certainly of Christian provenance. The rule which these men established in Wales, in the age of St Ambrose, was destined to evolve into a dynasty of native princes, which endured, in however precarious a fashion, for nine centuries.

Demetia (S.W. Wales) was held by Irish settlers. Nennius (AD 800) says that Cunedda cleared this area also, but this is denied by modem historians. Nevertheless there is, near Kidwelly, a hill called Allt Cunedda.