:Ceredig

{{Short description|King of Ceredigion (died 453)}}

{{About|the king of Ceredigion|other similarly named figures|Ceretic (disambiguation){{!}}Ceretic}}

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| name = Ceredig ap Cunedda

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Ceredig ap Cunedda (died 453), was a possibly fictional or at least not well attested in reliable sources king of Ceredigion in Wales.[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029417924 "Lives of the Cambro British saints"], p. 396, 1853, Rev. William Jenkins Rees

He may have been born c. 420 in the Brythonic kingdom of Manaw Gododdin (modern Lothian in Scotland), centred on the Firth of Forth in the area known as Yr Hen Ogledd.

Little is known of him. One of the sons of Cunedda, grandfather of Saint David,[https://books.google.com/books?id=NnAlAAAAMAAJ&dq=ceredig+ap+cunedda&pg=PA238 The Cambrian, A Bi-Monthly Published in the interest of the Welsh people and their descendants in the United States, 1881, Vol. 1, 1881] according to Nennius' Historia Brittonum, he arrived in what is now modern Wales from Gododdin with his father's family when they were invited to help ward off Irish invaders. As a reward for his bravery, his father gave him the southernmost part of the territories in north-west Wales{{cite book|last=Baring-Gould|first=Sabine|authorlink=Sabine Baring-Gould|title=A Book of North Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofnorthwales00bari|year=1903|publisher=Methuen & Company|oclc=559701019}} reconquered from the Irish. The realm is traditionally supposed to have been called Ceredigion after him, which led to the name of modern Ceredigion, one of the principal areas of Wales.

He married Meleri, one of the many daughters of King Brychan Brycheiniog of Brycheiniog (now Brecknockshire).{{cite web |url=http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/ceredccn.html |title=King Ceredig Ceredigion of Ceredigion |last=Ford |first=David Nash |date=2001 |website=Early British Kingdoms |publisher=Nash Ford Publishing |access-date=25 July 2021}} Amongst their children was a daughter named Ina who is thought to be the Saint Ina to whom St Ina's Church in Llanina near New Quay, Ceredigion is dedicated, and a son named Sanctus who in legend sexually assaulted Saint Non and is the father of Saint David.{{cite book|last1=Baring-Gould|first1=Sabine|last2=Fisher|first2=John|title=Lives of the British Saints|date=1911|publisher=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion|page=318|url=https://archive.org/stream/livesofbritishsa03bariuoft#page/350/mode/1up}}