Egwine was a 6th-century Celtic princess and saint, who is a patron saint of the village of Llanigon, east of Hay-on-Wye, in the Wye Valley of Wales.

Very little is known of her life. She was the sister of saints Cadoc,[1] Maches and Cyndr,[2] who all built churches in the same area.

She was also the daughter of Gwladys,[3] and granddaughter of king Brychan of Brycheiniog.

References

  1. ↑ Who was St Gwladys?.
  2. ↑ T. M. Charles-Edwards, Wales and the Britons, 350–1064 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 29 Nov. 2012) p593.
  3. ↑ Lifris, 'Vita sancti Cadoci', Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae, ed. and trans. A. M. Wade-Evans (1944), 24–141
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