Recent content by Cumbricus

Yeah but those families still exist today... and have been politically manipulated... excluding Catholics for example- namely the Stewarts. That is not including the constant challenges throughout the Wars of the Roses and the Tudors later on. There's that guy in Australia who has a better claim...

Luckily claims can travel through the female line too... otherwise they'd just be descended from some warlord who came from god knows where with no particular claim to anything. Speaking of Merfyn of course. Probably other cases too.

Male line is easier to follow due to the ap's/ab's/map's and the Brythonic obsession with reciting ones history. I guess if some one claimed it they'd be claiming Wales rather than the bits and bobs than any of those three lines claimed as their own. There is a fourth line from Tudwal Gloff...

Can probably tell senior lines from DNA: genetic distance and what not- you can tell if some one came from the same region later and how closely they share an ancestor. Think something that's being forgotten here is that "Wales" is an external term placed on the Brythonic people by Anglo-Saxons...

Maybe you should tell him to get a DNA test done then. I'm sure there's many people with an exceeding amount of curiosity as to what it may be and it'd be a shame if we never know and they die out. :P Have to disagree about why Aberfraw would have primacy. 1. Descended from the Coeling opens...

Fascinating topic. Regards to the first post, I think you're mixing Beli Mawr with Coel Hen, who was the last Dux Britannum. None the less, Coel was High King and ancestor to all the Kings of the Northern Kingdoms. Whether Cunedda was one of his descendants we'll never know, but its likely the...