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|death_date=c. 500 or 523
|feast_day=[[29 March]]
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'''Saint Gwladys ferch Brychan''' or '''St Gladys''' ([[Latin]]-[[Claudia]]), was the beautiful Queen of Saint [[Gwynllyw]] Milwr and one of the famous saintly daughters of King [[Brychan]] of [[Brycheiniog]]. She was the mother of one of the most revered Welsh saints, Saint [[Cadoc]] 'the Wise'.
==Traditional history==
The [[mediæval]] lives of Saint Cadoc (c. 1100) by [[Lifris]]<ref>Lifris, 'Vita sancti Cadoci', Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae, ed. and trans. A. M. Wade-Evans (1944), 24–141 </ref> and of Saint Gwynllyw (c. 1120) <ref>'Vita sancti Gundleii', Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae, ed. A. W. Wade-Evans (1944), 172–93 </ref> preserve legendary details of this saint though details frequently differ. She is also noted in Welsh king lists.
Half Irish, we have the most details on her of all of Brychan's children. Her beauty won the admiration of King [[Gwynllyw]] of [[Gwynllwg]] in [[South Wales]]. According to ''The Life of Saint Cadoc'' (c.1100) when her father refused to allow their marriage Gwynllyw accompanied by 300 men abducted her from [[Talgarth]]. A pitched battle occurred which was only stopped by the intervention of [[King Arthur]] and [[Sir Kay|Cai]] and [[Bedivere|Bedwyr]] who supported Gwynllyw and his warband in the battle. This act only occurred after Cai managed to persuade Arthur not to abduct the beautiful Gwladys himself. This tale of abduction seems similar to elements in [[Culhwch and Olwen]] and other Arthurian stories indicating it originated in bardic stories. This is the earliest reference to Arthur in a Saint's life. According to the ''Life of Saint Gwynllyw'' this battle never occurred and the marriage was actually accomplished peacefully.
Gwaldys soon had a son, the famous saint [[Cadoc]] and other children also saints [[Cynidr]], [[Bugi]], [[Cyfyw]], [[Maches]], [[Glywys II]] and [[Egwine]].
It was the prompting of Cadoc and Gwaldys that led Gwynllyw to abandon his life of violence and seek forgiveness for his sins. A vision led him to found a [[Hermitage (religious retreat)|hermitage]] on what is now [[Stow Hill, Newport|Stow Hill]] in [[Newport]], [[South Wales]]. Gwladys accompanied Gwynllyw into a [[hermit]]s life and for a while they lived together on Stow Hill, fasting, eating a vegetarian diet, and bathing in the cold waters of the [[River Usk|Usk]] to prove their piety.
Later they moved further apart to prevent carnal sin. Saint Gwladys founding her own hermitage at Pencarn in [[Bassaleg]], supposedly the site is at Pont Ebbw.<ref>Lifris, 'Vita sancti Cadoci', Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae, ed. and trans. A. M. Wade-Evans (1944), 24–141 </ref> While there she bathed in the [[Ebbw River]] and the Lady's Well at [[Tredegar]] may have been dedicated to her. It has been suggested that site of [[St. Basil]] [[Church (building)|church]], [[Bassaleg]] was originally dedicated to her.
Later at the urging of Cadoc she moved yet further to Capel Wladus in [[Gelligaer]]. Today her main church is St. Gwladys, [[Bargoed]].
There is a supposed Burial place of St. Gwladys at Pont Ebbw.
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/gwladys.html Saint Gwladys' life]
*[http://www.newportpast.com/gallery/whgreene/ Pictures of The Chapel of St Gwladys, Pont Ebbw, Near Newport, Mon]
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