Meicen (also Meigen) is an unknown location somewhere in the
then-British North of England, the site of the battle of ''Gueith Meicen'' at which
Cadwallon overthrew
Eadwine, according to the ''
Annales Cambriae
The (Latin for ''Annals of Wales'') is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales. The earliest is a 12th-century presumed copy of a mid-10th-century original; later e ...
'' for 631;
Bede
Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom ...
places this defeat on 12 October 633, at
Hatfield
Hatfield may refer to:
Places Settlements Australia
* Hatfield, New South Wales, located in Balranald Shire
England
* Hatfield, East Riding of Yorkshire
* Hatfield, Herefordshire
* Hatfield, Hertfordshire
* Hatfield, South Yorkshire
* Hatfield ...
(
Old English ''Haethfelth'').
John T. Koch
John T. Koch is an American academic, historian and linguist who specializes in Celtic studies, especially prehistory and the early Middle Ages. He is the editor of the five-volume ''Celtic Culture. A Historical Encyclopedia'' (2006, ABC Clio). He ...
, "Cadwallon ap Cadfan," in ''The Celts: History, Life, and Culture'' (ABC-Clio, 2012), p. 139.
References
630s
7th century in England
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