Pasgen ap Cadeyrn was an ancient king of Powys and the father of Mawgan ap Pasgen, according to the Harleian genealogies.[1] The Welsh genealogies, however, are unreliable from his father's name on. Pasgen's name also appears on the Pillar of Eliseg and as well as the Historia Brittonum as a son of Vortigern.[2][3][4] In the genealogies from Jesus College MS 20, his father is Cadell Ddyrnllug and his son's name is Manogan.[4][5] In the Harleian, he is a grandson of Cadell through Cadeyrn (Cattegirn).[1][4]
One reading of the genealogies would put the beginning of his reign about two centuries before the death of Selyf ap Cynan, or about AD 417;[3] another would put him in the period 480–510.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b 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".
- ^ Historia Brittonum. p. 22.
- ^ a b Arthur Wade-Evans (1949–50), "Who was Ninian?", Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Ser. 3, 28: 79–91, at 86–88.
- ^ a b c Peter Bartrum (1966), Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts (University of Wales Press), 12, 46, 129.
- ^ a b Ralegh Radford, "Vortigern", Antiquity 32 (1958): 19–24, at 24.
