Caradog ap Meirion

Caradog ap Meirion reigned c. 754 – c. 798, died c. 798, was a king of Gwynedd in North West Wales.

[3] It is assumed Caradog rose to the throne upon the death of King Rhodri Molwynog, which Phillimore's reconstruction of the Annals of Wales dates to 754.

The sole references to Caradog in the historical record are the appearance of his name in genealogies such as those in Jesus College MS. 20,[5] and the entry of his death in the Annales Cambriae (Phillimore's year 798),[6]) noting he was killed (lit.

It was during Caradog's reign that the Welsh church adopted the Catholic method of calculating Easter through the efforts of Bishop Elfodd in 768,[7] thus removing a longstanding point of ecclesiastical contention.

[3][8] According to Brut Aberpergwm, a purported medieval Welsh text which was accepted as such by the editors of the Myvyrian Archaiology (but which is now known to a forgery of Iolo Morganwg's), Caradog was slain in the 796 battle.