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Cynan Cynan (also spelled Conan or Kenan) is a Welsh masculine given name. It may refer to: * Cynan, the bardic name of Albert Evans-Jones (1895–1970), Welsh poet and dramatist * Cynan ab Iago (11th century), prince of Gwynedd and father of Gruffydd ...

of the Nevern Valley";

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

865 Harleian MS. 3859. Op. cit. Phillimore, Egerton. ''Y Cymmrodor'' 9 (1888), pp. 141–83. ) was a 9th-century Welsh warrior whose death was recorded by most of the surviving Welsh histories.''Archaeologia Cambrensis'': "

Chronicle of the Princes ''Brut y Tywysogion'' () is one of the most important primary sources for Welsh history. It is an annalistic chronicle that serves as a continuation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ''Historia Regum Britanniae''. ''Brut y Tywysogion'' has survived ...

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Accessed 27 Feb 2013. He was credited with many victories against the

Saxons The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

. Williams, William. ''Prydnawngwaith y Cymry, neu Fer Hanes o Lywodraeth y Tywysogion Cymreig ar Gymru, yr Hon a Barhaodd o'r Flwyddyn o Oed ein Hiachawdwr 686 Hyd y Flwyddyn 1283''
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J. Jones, 1822. Accessed 27 Feb 2013. Among the variations of his name was Cynan Nawdd Nifer ("Cynan, Protection of Many").

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