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Saint TEON 1
- Born: Abt 550
- Marriage (1): Unknown
General Notes:
See: An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive christians ... founders of ... - Rice Rees - Google Books:
another grand-daughter, married Iorwerth Hirflawdd of Powys, son of Tegonwy
ab Teon .
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According to Achau y Saint ; Teon , and Tegonwy ab Teon , were members of the
college of Illtyd ; but the statement cannot be admitted without incurring a great
anachronism, if it be true that Iorwerth Hirflawdd, a son of Tegonwy, married one
of ...
http://www.elystan.co.uk/Elystan.co.uk/Welcome.html:
Teon is said to have been a Bishop and to have given his name to Carneddau Teon ('the Stones of Teon'), now known as the Stiperstone Hills, which are located in Shropshire near its western border with Wales. Teon was the ancestor of many tribes mainly in Powys, foremost of which was that of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn who founded a new dynasty of Princes in Powys, one of whose descendants was Owain Glyn Dw^r. Another of Teon's descendants was Bleddyn's relation Trahaearn ap Caradog of Arwystli, who seized the throne of Gwynnedd after Bleddyn's death. Bleddyn had latterly become ruler of Gwynedd as well as Powys.
Teon married.
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