In The Parish Of Clent Is A Small Chapel
Dedicated To This Saint.
{40} Winchelcumbe, or Winchcomb, in the lower part of the hundred
of Kiftsgate, in Gloucestershire, a few miles to the north of
Cheltenham.
{41} St. Kynauc, who flourished about the year 492, was the reputed
son of Brychan, lord of Brecknock, by Benadulved, daughter of
Benadyl, a prince of Powis, whom he seduced during the time of his
detention as an hostage at the court of her father. He is said to
have been murdered upon the mountain called the Van, and buried in
the church of Merthyr Cynawg, or Cynawg the Martyr, near Brecknock,
which is dedicated to his memory.
{42} In Welsh, Illtyd, which has been latinised into Iltutus, as in
the instance of St. Iltutus, the celebrated disciple of Germanus,
and the master of the learned Gildas, who founded a college for the
instruction of youth at Llantwit, on the coast of Glamorganshire;
but I do not conceive this to be the same person. The name of Ty-
Illtyd, or St. Illtyd's house, is still known as Llanamllech, but it
is applied to one of those monuments of Druidical antiquity called a
cistvaen, erected upon an eminence named Maenest, at a short
distance from the village. A rude, upright stone stood formerly on
one side of it, and was called by the country people Maen Illtyd, or
Illtyd's stone, but was removed about a century ago. A well, the
stream of which divides this parish from the neighbouring one of
Llansaintfraid, is called Ffynnon Illtyd, or Illtyd's well. This
was evidently the site of the hermitage mentioned by Giraldus.
{43} Lhanhamelach, or Llanamllech, is a small village, three miles
from Brecknock, on the road to Abergavenny.
{44} The name of Newmarche appears in the chartulary of Battel
abbey, as a witness to one of the charters granted by William the
Conqueror to the monks of Battel in Sussex, upon his foundation of
their house. He obtained the territory of Brecknock by conquest,
from Bleddyn ap Maenarch, the Welsh regulus thereof, about the year
1092, soon after his countryman, Robert Fitzhamon, had reduced the
county of Glamorgan. He built the present town of Brecknock, where
he also founded a priory of Benedictine monks. According to Leland,
he was buried in the cloister of the cathedral church at Gloucester,
though the mutilated remains of an effigy and monument are still
ascribed to him in the priory church at Brecknock.
{45} Brecheinoc, now Brecknockshire, had three cantreds or
hundreds, and eight comots. - 1. Cantref Selef with the comots of
Selef and Trahayern. - 2. Cantref Canol, or the middle hundred, with
the comots Talgarth, Ystradwy, and Brwynlys, or Eglyws Yail. - 3.
Cantref Mawr, or the great hundred, with the comots of Tir Raulff
Llywel, and Cerrig Howel. - Powel's description of Wales, p. 20.
{46} Milo was son to Walter, constable of England in the reign of
Henry I., and Emme his wife, one of the daughters of Dru de Baladun,
sister to Hameline de Baladun, a person of great note, who came into
England with William the Conqueror, and, being the first lord of
Overwent in the county of Monmouth, built the castle of Abergavenny.
He was wounded by an arrow while hunting, on Christmas eve, in 1144,
and was buried in the chapter-house of Lanthoni, near Gloucester.
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