Egwine

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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,[http://stgwladys.org/about-st-gs/st-gwladys/ Who was St Gwladys?]. Maches and Cyndr,T. M. Charles-Edwards, Wales and the Britons, 350–1064 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 29 Nov. 2012) p593. who all built churches in the same area.

She was also the daughter of Gwladys,Lifris, 'Vita sancti Cadoci', Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae, ed. and trans. A. M. Wade-Evans (1944), 24–141 and granddaughter of king Brychan of Brycheiniog.