Wethenoc

Wethenoc or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc was a 5th-century Breton saint.[1][2][3] [4]

Life

A son of Prince Fragan of Dumnonia and Saint Gwen the Three-Breasted, he grew up at Ploufragan near Saint-Brieuc (in northwestern France) with his brothers, Winwaloe and Jacut. They were later joined by a sister, Creirwy. He was educated by Budoc of Dol on the Île Lavret near Paimpol.[5]

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References
  1. Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain, volume 3, p. 38 (1911).
  2. Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).
  3. Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (OUP Oxford, 2000pp225.)
  4. Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Routledge, 2003) p86.
  5. Bowen, E. G. Saints, Seaways and Settlements, p. 189 (University of Wales Press 1969). ISBN 0-7083-0650-0 (2nd ed. 1977).


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