:Saint Ina

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Saint Ina is thought to be a fifth century Welsh saint and a member of the royal house of Gwynedd.

Ina was the daughter of Ceredig ab Cunedda Wledig ({{circa|420}}–453),{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=John Thomas |title=The Church Plate of Cardiganshire |date=1914 |publisher=James H. Alden |location=United Kingdom |page=68}} and a granddaughter of Cunedda Wledig, the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd. The church of St Ina in Llanina in Ceredigion is dedicated to her. There is a tradition that the dedicatee is the Anglo-Saxon King Ine (or Ina) of Wessex (died 727), but this is not true.{{cite book |last1=Various |editor1-last=Davies and Kirby |title=Cardiganshire County History Vol. I. |page=392 |chapter=‘The Church in Ceredigion in the Early Middle Ages’}}{{cite web |last1=Dyfed Archaeological Trust |title=St Ina, Llanina, Ceredigion |url=https://www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/wp/discovery/projects/churches/st-ina-llanina-ceredigion/ |access-date=5 February 2023}}

St Ina Road in Heath, Cardiff is presumably named after this Saint Ina, as it is among a group of roads named after Celtic saints.

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  • {{cite book|last1=Baring-Gould|authorlink=Sabine 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}}

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