Budic II(Medieval Latin:Budicius;Welsh:BudigorBuddig;c. 460– c. 550), formerly known asBudick,was a king ofCornouailleinBrittanyin the late 5th and early 6th centuries. He was father ofHoelas well as several Celtic saints.
Life
editBudic II was born inCornouailleto a member of its royal family, possibly Erich of Brittany.[1]He was named after his uncleBudic I of Brittany.Budic II succeeded to the throne,c. 478,[1]but was expelled by a cousin and fled to the court of KingAircol LawhirofDyfed,where another cousin Amon Ddu was employed. There, he wed Anowed or Arianwedd, the sister ofSaint Teilo.After the death of his usurping relative, he returned toCornouailleto claim the Breton throne,[2]later joined by Saint Teilo whom he reputedly persuaded to rid the area of a terrible dragon that had been terrorising the countryside.[3]Teilo was able to subdue the beast and tied it to a rock in the sea.
The date of his death is uncertain. Some sources claim he died in 545. However, this contradicts other sources which claim that Saint Teilo had fled to France in 549 to escape theYellow Plague of Rhosand had spent time in Brittany in Budic's company.[4]Upon his death, his kingdom was usurped by Macliau, king of the neighbouringVeneti.[5]
Offspring
editThree of Budic's sons by his Welsh wife were revered as saints by theCeltic Christianity:St. Ismael,bishop of MenevaandRhos,St. Euddogwy,bishop of Llandaff;andSt. Tyfei,a martyr.[6]A fourth son (credited toEmyr Llydaw,that is the "Emperor ofBrittany",in late Welsh sources) wasHoel I Mawr,[7]whose sonTewdwreventually succeeded to the kingdom of Cornouaille.[5]
One of his daughters wasSaint Gwen the Three-Breasted,who marriedSaint Fragan(also a member of the dynasty in Dumnonia) and bore him SaintsWethenoc,Jacut,Winwaloe,andCreirwy.She then married Eneas Ledewig ( "Aeneas theBreton") and bore himSaint Cadfan.[8]
Arthurian legend
editInGeoffrey of Monmouth'spseudohistoricalHistory of the Kings of Britain,Budic is said at different places to have married a sister ofAurelius AmbrosiusandUther Pendragon(making him Arthur's uncle) and to have married Pendragon's daughterAnna(making him Arthur's brother-in-law). This confusion reappears inWaceandLayamon,although most later sources make his sonHoelArthur's "cousin".[9]In later romances, a possibly derived[2]character of King Nentres (also writtenNeuntresamong other forms) of Garlot marries Arthur's half-sisterElaine[2](also known as Blasine).
References
edit- ^abFord, David Nash."Erich"atEarly British Kingdoms.2001. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ^abcFord, David Nash. "Budic II"atEarly British Kingdoms.2001. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^Starr, Brian Daniel (29 December 2009).Daily Saints.Brian Starr. p. 220.ISBN978-1-4499-9862-2.Retrieved23 April2011.
- ^"Who was St Teilo?".Stteilosbishopton.co.uk. Archived fromthe originalon 20 July 2011.Retrieved23 April2011.
- ^abFord, David Nash."Tewdwr Mawr"atEarly British Kingdoms.2001. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^Ford, David Nash. "St. Teilo", EBK
- ^Ford, David Nash."Hoel I Mawr"atEarly British Kingdoms.2001. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^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 2, p. 9 (C. J. Clark, 1908).
- ^Geoffrey of Monmouth,translated by Lewis Thorpe.The History of the Kings of Britain.Penguin Books (London), 1966.ISBN0-14-044170-0.