Caradog, Caradoc, Caradawg, or Cradawg, Latinised as Caratacus and anglicised as
Craddock, is a given name for men in the Welsh language. It may refer to:
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Caradog ap Bran
Caradog ap Bran (sometimes spelled as Caradoc) is the son of the British king Bran the Blessed in Welsh mythology and literature, who appears most prominently in the second branch of the Mabinogi, the tale of Branwen ferch Llŷr. He is further m ...
, son of Bran the Blessed in Welsh mythology
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Caratacus
Caratacus was a 1st-century AD British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who resisted the Roman conquest of Britain.
Before the Roman invasion, Caratacus is associated with the expansion of his tribe's territory. His apparent success led ...
, first-century British chieftain at the time of the Roman conquest
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Caradocus
Caradocus (''middle Welsh'': Karadawc), according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia regum Britanniae'', a pseudohistorical account of the kings of the Britons, was the duke of Cornwall under the reign of Octavius, who became king of Cornwal ...
, mythical British king of the fourth century
* Caradoc, suitor of
Saint Winifred
Saint Winifred (or Winefride; ; ) was a Wales in the Early Middle Ages, Welsh virgin martyr of the 7th century. Her story was celebrated as early as the 8th century, but became popular in England in the 12th, when her hagiography was first writ ...
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Caradog ap Meirion
Caradog ap Meirion reigned c. 754 – c. 798, died c. 798, was a king of Gwynedd in North West Wales. This Welsh name means Caradog son of Meirion.
This era in the history of Kingdom of Gwynedd was not notable and, given the lack of reliable ...
, eighth-century king of Gwynedd
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Caradoc
Caradoc Vreichvras (; Modern , ) was a semi-legendary ancestor to the kings of Gwent. He may have lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is remembered in the Matter of Britain as a Knight of the Round Table, under the names King Carados and C ...
, figure from history and the Matter of Britain
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Caradoc of Llancarfan, twelfth century author of a ''Life of Gildas''
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Saint Caradoc, 12th century Welsh hermit
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Griffith Rhys Jones (Caradog), conductor of the ''Côr Mawr'' of some 460 voices (the South Wales Choral Union), which twice won first prize at Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in the 1870s
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Caradog Roberts, 19th century Welsh composer
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Caradoc Evans
David Caradoc Evans (31 December 1878 – 11 January 1945), was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright.
Biography
Evans was brought up in a Welsh language, Welsh-speaking community in Rhydlewis, Ceredigion, Cardiganshire, and although he ...
, 20th century Welsh author and playwright
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Caradog Prichard
Caradog Prichard (3 November 1904 – 25 February 1980) was a Welsh poet and novelist writing in Welsh. His daughter, Mari Prichard, was married to the late Humphrey Carpenter.
Caradog Prichard was born and grew up in the Gwynedd slate-quarryin ...
, 20th century Welsh poet and novelist
* An antagonist named for Griffith Rhys Jones in Susan Cooper's novel ''
The Grey King
''The Grey King'' is a contemporary fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published almost simultaneously by Chatto & Windus and Atheneum in 1975. It is the fourth of five books in her Matter of Britain#The Arthurian cycle, Arthurian fantasy series '' ...
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Other uses
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Caradoc, Ontario, a Canadian township now part of Strathroy-Caradoc
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Caer Caradoc
Caer Caradoc (, the fort of Caradog) is a hill in the English county of Shropshire. It overlooks the town of Church Stretton and the village of All Stretton and offers panoramic views to the north towards the Wrekin, east to Wenlock Edge, a ...
, a hill in the English county of Shropshire
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Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn), an Iron Age hill fort in Shropshire
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Caradoc Series
In geology, Caradoc Series is the name introduced by Roderick Murchison in 1839 for the sandstone series of Caer Caradoc in Shropshire, England. It is the fifth of the six subdivisions (in ascending order) of the Ordovician System, comprising al ...
, a geological subdivision of the Ordovician System
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HMS ''Caradoc'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
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Caradec
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Ceretic (disambiguation) Ceretic, Ceredig or Keredic may refer to:
* Ceretic Guletic, 5th-century king of Alt Clut in present-day Scotland
* Ceredig (c. 420 – 453), first king of Ceredigion in Wales
* Ceretic of Elmet (died 617), last king of Elmet, now in northern Engl ...
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Cerdic of Wessex
Cerdic ( ; ) is described in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Wessex, reigning from around 519 to 534 AD. Subsequent kings of Wessex were each claimed by th ...
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Craddock (disambiguation)
Craddock may refer to:
People
* Craddock (surname), a Welsh surname and a list of people with it
* Craddock Dufty (1900–1955), New Zealand rugby league player
Places
* Craddock, Alberta, Canada, a former unincorporated community
* Craddock, M ...
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Cradock (disambiguation)
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