Pasgen ap Cadeyrn 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 ...

and the father of

Mawgan ap Pasgen Mawgan ap Pasgen was an ancient king of Powys mentioned in the Harleian genealogies 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 ...

, according to 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 ...

.Ben Guy (2018), "The earliest Welsh genealogies: textual layering and the phenomenon of 'pedigree growth'," ''Early Medieval Europe'' 26 (4) 462–485, 473: ''Pascent map Cattegir'', "Pasgen son of Cadeyrn". The Welsh genealogies, however, are unreliable from his father's name on. Pasgen's name also appears 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 ...

and as 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 ...

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.

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, 46, 129. In the

genealogies from Jesus College MS 20 The genealogies from Jesus College MS 20 are a medieval Welsh collection of genealogies preserved in a single manuscript, Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Jesus College, MS 20, folios 33r–41r. It presents the lineages of a number of medie ...

, his 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 ...

and his son's name is Manogan.

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 ...

, "Vortigern", ''Antiquity'' 32 (1958): 19–24, at 24. In the Harleian, he is a grandson of Cadell through

Cadeyrn Catigern () is a figure of Welsh tradition, said to be a son of Vortigern, the tyrannical King of the Britons, and the brother of Vortimer. A figure of this name also appears in the Welsh genealogies, though he is given different parentage. Catige ...

(Cattegirn). One reading of the genealogies would put the beginning of his reign about two centuries before the death of

Selyf ap Cynan Selyf ap Cynan or Selyf Sarffgadau (died 616) appears in Old Welsh genealogies as an early 7th-century King of Powys, the son of Cynan Garwyn. His name is a Welsh form of Solomon, appearing in the oldest genealogies as Selim. He reputedly bore ...

, or about AD 417; another would put him in the period 480–510.

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