Gradlon

Gradlon known as Gradlon Meur ( Gradlon Large the ) is a legendary king of Cornwall.

The Legend

Gradlon , “king” of Cornwall born in 330 after J. - C., probably a Governor. Legendary character called Gradlon the Large one (Gradlon Meur ) in Brittany and Urbain elsewhere. Oldest son of Conan Meriadec by its second wife, Holy Darerca.

Into its pagan youth , Gradlon falls deeply in love with Malgven, the queen of North, during a warlike forwarding, a kind of Fée (a Bansidh in the Irish tradition). Unfortunately, it offends the mysterious creature while converting with the Christianisme and by seeking the councils of Saint Guénolé. The Fée leaves Gradlon by crossing a torrential Fleuve and by informing it not to follow it. The Breton courageous one continues it, plunging in whirling water. The Fée, forced to save the life of his/her former lover, less did not hate it for as much because this rescue was the proof that its love had not died.

At the time of a Hunting, separated from its entourage, it was lost in large the Forêt Carry out-Hom. Almost died from exhaustion and hunger, it falls by chance on the Ermitage from Saint Corentin (now Plomodiern). Saint Corentin has a Poisson marvellous of which it cuts half to be sustained each day and which it finds whole each morning. The Holy , daily sharing its meal with the King, gives again health to him. In reward of its hospitality, Gradlon made Saint Corentin the first bishop of Cornwall.

The first love Féerique of the King returned many years to later have the spirit of the girl of Gradlon, Dahut, which was at the origin of the disappearance of the town of Ys.

Gradlon made Corispotium (alternative: Corisopitum), then called Quimper, its Capital news , its equestrian Statue can be besides seen between the turns of the Cathédrale. Died of Gradlon, his/her son Solomon Ier succeeded to him, then his grandson, Aldrien.

History

The sources make known the existence of several Gradlon, of which Gradlon Meur quoted with the Cartulaire of Landévennec, but also Gradlon Flam and Gradlon Plueneuor (Plonéour). They are generally described as Consul , which one can include/understand as Count - as the Latin texts translate the Breton title of mac' htiern by Tyran . He would have more probably lived between Ve and IXe century.

At the time Gallo-Roman, the capital of the Osismes - predecessors of Cornouaillais, Trégorrois and Léonards - was Carhaix. And if there was a city on Odet it were not yet Quimper, but a little downstream, in the current district of Locmaria. In its Quimper beginnings was not called Corisoptiensis , it is a mistake in late interpretation, but more probably (and thus without certainty), Civitas Aquilonia .

However the toponyms reveal a “castle” known as of Saint-Corentin in the district of the cathedral of Quimper, district called with the Middle Ages Turn of Chastel. And under the Ancien Mode Quimper will bear the name of Quimpercorentin.

Vestiges of an aristocratic residence of IXe-Xe centuries associated with workshops with goldsmithery on the Mountain with Locronan could be one of the places to be able and creation of richness which the various princes had exploited exerting an authority on the area of Quimper to the Top Moyen-âge.

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