- Cadwgan of Llandyfai
Cadwgan also known as Cadwgan of Llandyfái (died
11 April 1241 ) was a Welsh cleric who wasBishop of Bangor from 1215 to 1236.According to
Giraldus Cambrensis , Cadwgan was the son of an Irish priest and a Welsh mother. The annals state that he was the son of a priest famous for the eloquence of his Welsh preaching. He was Abbot of theCistercian Abbey ofWhitland . Cadwgan is sometimes referred to as Martin, which may have been his monastic name. He was consecrated as Bishop of Bangor by theArchbishop of Canterbury on June 21 1215 atStaines . Cadwgan probably owed his election toLlywelyn the Great , who was determined to have a Welsh rather than a Norman or English bishop and was by now powerful enough to get his way.In 1234 he brought a shipload of corn from
Ireland to feed the poor of his diocese. He entered the Cistercian abbey of Dore inHerefordshire in 1236 to live there as a monk, and died there on April 11 1241. He wrote a theological work entitled "De modo confitendi".References
John Edward Lloyd (1911) "The history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest" (Longmans, Green & Co.)External links
* [http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/cadwgan.html Royal Berkshire History: Cadwgan of Llandyfai, Bishop of Bangor]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=33746 Notes on Cadwgan at www.british-history.ac.uk]
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