Caradoc tells a story of how Gildas intervened between King Arthur and a certain King Melwas of the ' Summer Country ' ( Gwlad yr Haf, Somerset ) who had abducted Guinevere and brought her to his stronghold at Glastonbury, where Arthur soon arrived to besiege him.

Caradoc of Llancarfan, who wrote his Life of Gildas before 1136, recounts how she was kidnapped by Melwas, king of the " Summer Country " ( Aestiva Regio, perhaps meaning Somerset ), and held prisoner at his stronghold at Glastonbury.

It was also one of the two legions that defeated Caratacus at the Battle of Caer Caradoc, after which, from the AD 50s, it was encamped at Camulodunum, with a few units at Kingsholm in Gloucester and a garrison at Wroxeter.

Pole Bank and nearby Caer Caradoc, at, are both Marilyns.

Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan ; of Saint Cadoc, written around 1100 or a little before by Lifris of Llancarfan ; medieval biographies of Carannog, Padarn and Eufflam, probably written around the 12th century ; a less obviously legendary account of Arthur appears in the Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, which is often claimed to date from the early 11th century ; William of Malmesbury's De Gestis Regum Anglorum and Herman's De Miraculis Sanctae Mariae Laudensis, which together provide the first certain evidence for a belief that Arthur was not actually dead and would at some point return.

Oliver Sandys ( 1892-1964 ), widow of Caradoc Evans and a novelist in her own right, lived at The Ancient House, across the road from the church, from the 1950s.

Educated at Galt Grammar School and Caradoc Academy, he first began the study of law but instead, in 1862, entered the trade of journalism.

According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas ' brother Hueil and to have rescued his wife Gwenhwyfar from Glastonbury.

There are two Lives of Gildas: the earlier written by a monk of Rhuys in Brittany, possibly in the 9th century, the second written by Caradoc of Llancarfan, a friend and contemporary of Geoffrey of Monmouth, composed in the middle of the 12th century.

Caradoc of Llancarfan, influenced by Geoffrey of Monmouth and his Norman patrons, and drawing on the Life of Cadoc among other sources, paints a different picture.

* The Life of Gildas by Caradoc of Llancarfan.

The earliest account, that of Caradoc of Llancarfan, relates that " At the instigation of the Devil, he was moved by passion and love for the woman, and with a small company with him ... he made for the castle by night.

The earliest version of the popular abduction of Guinevere episode appears in the early 12th-century Latin Life of Gildas by Caradoc of Llancarfan.

Aberavon was first established by Caradoc ap Iestyn ( son of Iestyn ap Gwrgant ), on the instructions of Robert Fitzhamon, after the Norman's conquest of south Wales by the end of the eleventh century.

In Caradoc of Llancarfan's The historie of Cambria, now called Wales: a part of the most famous yland of Brytaine, Caradoc wrote that the manor and castle were given to William de Londres, one of the legendary Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, by Robert Fitzhamon, the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan.

These zones are identical with those found in the rocks of the same age in North Wales, the Bala series, and the terms Bala or Caradoc series are used indifferently by geologists when referring to the uppermost substage of the Ordovician System.

D. H. Lawrence was a major influence on Rhys, though similarities with Caradoc Evans have been noted, and it has been suggested that he had " The tendency to process images of the Welsh valleys for consumption by English audiences ".

In that year his paper, Le Messager des chambres, was taken over by Thiers, who sent him on a mission to Egypt, and under the Guizot ministry he was sent to Buenos Aires to co-operate with the British minister Lord Howden ( Sir J Caradoc ).

Inevitably, Knighton's earliest history is obscure but there are local clues: Caer Caradoc ( an Iron Age hillfort associated with Caradoc or Caractacus ) is away and just off the road towards Clun.

According to Caradoc, Nest told Owain, " If you would have me stay with you and be faithful to you, then send my children home to their father.

He also seemed to share a good relationship with King Caradoc of Gwent.

Rocks of Caradoc age are well developed in southern Scotland ; in the Girvan district they have been described as the Ardmillan series with the Drtimmock group and Barren Flagstone group in the upper portion, and the Whitehouse, Ardwell and Balclatchie groups in the lower part.

The texts include references to King Arthur and other semi-historical characters from Sub-Roman Britain, mythic figures such as Bran the Blessed, undeniably historical personages such as Alan IV, Duke of Brittany ( who is called Alan Fyrgan ) and even Iron Age characters like Caswallawn ( Cassivellaunus ) and Caradoc ( Caratacus ).

The names of some of the early West Saxon leaders appear to be British in origin, including the dynastic founder Cerdic ( being a form of Ceredic or Caradoc ) and Cædwalla ( from Cadwallon, a Welsh name derived from the same element in the ethnonym Catuvellauni ).

In the company of the two old battleships, HMS Revenge and HMS Resolution and her sister ship, HMS Enterprise, as well as the old cruiser HMS Caradoc, she ran into some of the heaviest seas that Agar encountered.

Caradoc also says that the brothers of Gildas rose up against Arthur, refusing to acknowledge him as their lord.

Ban and Bors become Arthur's early allies in his fight against eleven rebel kings in Britain, including Lot, Urien, and Caradoc, and he vows to help them against their enemy Claudas, who has been threatening their lands.

Following the Battle of Caer Caradoc, where governor Publius Ostorius Scapula defeated Caratacus, the Ordovices were no longer a threat to Rome, probably due to heavy losses.

He married Senena, daughter of Caradoc ap Thomas of Anglesey.

Finally, in 51, Scapula managed to defeat Caratacus in a set-piece battle somewhere in Ordovician territory ( see the Battle of Caer Caradoc ), capturing Caratacus ' wife and daughter and receiving the surrender of his brothers.

* The defeat of Caradoc ( Caratacus ) by the Romans is the subject of Henry Treece's 1952 adult novel, The Dark Island, the second book in his Celtic Tetralogy.

* Caradoc ( Caratacus ) is a major character in author Pauline Gedge's 1978 novel, The Eagle and The Raven.

Other examples include the 13th century French Life of Caradoc and the English romances The Turke and Gowin, and Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle.

Here, " Artus de Bretania " and Isdernus approach a tower in which " Mardoc " is holding " Winlogee ", while on the other side Carrado ( probably Caradoc ) fights Galvagin ( Gawain ) while the knights Galvariun and Che ( Kay ) approach.

) However, many see the Carmarthenshire-born satirical short-story writer and novelist Caradoc Evans ( 1878 – 1945 ) as the first — or first modern — Welsh writer in English.

Lancelot is the son of Arthur's sister Clarine in Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Caradoc Breifbras is Arthur's sister's son in the Prose Lancelot, Percival is son of Arthur's sister Acheflour in the English romance Syr Percyvelle.

Price was born Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price in Twyford in Berkshire, son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price and his wife Dorothy, née Verey.

** Communities: Cairngorm, Campbellvale, Caradoc, Christina, Falconbridge, Glen Oak, Longwood, Melbourne, Mount Brydges, Muncey and Strathroy.

The Ordovician rocks are graptolitic black shales and grits of Llandeilo and Caradoc age.

People have lived in the Stretton Gap ( or Dale ) for thousands of years ; an Iron Age hillfort on Caer Caradoc overlooks the town.

If not an entirely legendary figure, Caradoc would not have been a king in the true sense but may have held a powerful office within the Roman administration.

It is possible that the " Caratacus Stone " on Withypool Common near Dulverton, inscribed Carataci nepus --- (" relative of Caradoc "), records one of his co-lateral descendants.