Mawgan ap Pasgen was an ancient

king of Powys This is a list of rulers in Wales (; and neighbouring regions) during the Middle Ages, between . The rulers were monarchs who ruled their respective realms, as well as those who briefly ruled the Principality of Wales. These former territor ...

mentioned in the

Harleian genealogies __NOTOC__ The Harleian genealogies are a collection of Old Welsh genealogies preserved in British Library, Harley MS 3859. Part of the Harleian Library, the manuscript, which also contains the '' Annales Cambriae'' (Recension A) and a version of ...

as a son of Pasgen ap Cadeyrn.Ben Guy (2018), "The earliest Welsh genealogies: textual layering and the phenomenon of 'pedigree growth'," ''Early Medieval Europe'' 26 (4) 462–485, 473: ''Maucant map Pascent'', "Mawgan son of Pasgen". His name is also spelled ''Maucann''

Arthur Wade-Evans Arthur Wade Wade-Evans (born Arthur Wade Evans) (31 August 1875 – 4 January 1964) was a Welsh clergyman and historian. Biography Evans was born in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, in south Wales on 31 August 1875 and did not include his mother's ...

(1949–50)
"Who was Ninian?"
''Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society'', Ser. 3, 28: 79–91, at 86–88. or ''Maucanu''.

Peter Bartrum Peter Clement Bartrum (4 December 1907 in Hampstead, London, England – 14 August 2008, in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England) was a researcher and genealogist who, from the 1930s onwards, specialised in the genealogy of the Welsh nobility ...

(1966), ''Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts'' (University of Wales Press), 12, 129. He appears as ''Maucannan'' on the

Pillar of Eliseg The Pillar of Eliseg – also known as Elise's Pillar or Croes Elisedd in Welsh – stands near Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire, Wales rid reference It was erected by Cyngen ap Cadell (died 855), king of Kingdom of Powys, Powys in honour o ...

. A straightforward reading of the genealogies would tend to place his reign in the mid-5th century AD.

Ralegh Radford Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford (7 November 1900 – 27 December 1998) was an English archaeologist and historian who pioneered the exploration of the Dark Ages of Britain and popularised his findings in many official guides and surveys for the ...

places him much later, in 510–540.

, "Vortigern", ''Antiquity'' 32 (1958): 19–24, at 24. There is a discrepancy in the early Welsh genealogies regarding his descendants. In the Harleian genealogies, he is the father of Cyngen (Cynan, Cincen), father of

Brochwel Ysgithrog The traditional arms of Brochwel Ysgithrog, 242x242px Brochwel son of Cyngen (, died c. 560), better known as Brochwel Ysgithrog, was a king of Powys in eastern Wales. The unusual epithet ''Ysgithrog'' has been translated as "of the canine teet ...

, but in others Cyngen's father is

Cadell Ddyrnllug Cadell Ddyrnllwg (Welsh for 'Cadell of the Gleaming Hilt'; born c. AD 430) was a mid-5th century King of Powys. Much of what is known of him involves a heavily-mythologized account of his rise to power thanks to divine intervention. Biography A ...

. In ''De situ Brecheniauc'', Cyngen's father is Cynfor Cadcathug. As

notes, it is with Mawgan that the Powysian "pedigree begins to be unreliable" – or, in the words of

, "beyond this point there is confusion". Wade-Evans theorizes that the historical Mawgan was the same person as

Saint Ninian Ninian is a Christian saint, first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland. For this reason, he is known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, and there are numerous dedicatio ...

and a son of

Vortigern Vortigern (; , ; ; ; Old Breton: ''Gurdiern'', ''Gurthiern''; ; , , , etc.), also spelled Vortiger, Vortigan, Voertigern and Vortigen, was a 5th-century warlord in Sub-Roman Britain, Britain, known perhaps as a king of the Britons or at least ...

. This would put his birth late in the 4th century.

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