According to legend, one of Owain's sons was Prince Madoc, who is popularly supposed to have fled across the Atlantic and colonised America.

Gwydion was a prominent character in the 2003 animated film Y Mabinogi, in which he was voiced by Philip Madoc.

The television series Hawkmoor created by Lynn Hughes and starring John Ogwen as Twm and Jane Asher as Lady Johane Williams was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, depicting Twm as a Welsh Robin Hood / freedom fighter protecting the Welsh people from the repression of English-born Sheriff John Stedman ( Jack May ) and the cruel ( Catholic ) Vicar Davyd ( Philip Madoc ).

In the third book, The Indigo King, it is revealed that Mordred was born as Madoc in a place called the Archipelago of Dreams, from which he was exiled for trying to use knowledge of the future to shape it.

However, in this vein, Robert Silverberg located the Mormon's use of Mound Builder culture within a larger cultural nexus and the voyage of Madoc and " Welsh Indians " was set in its changing and evolving sociohistorical contexts by Gwyn Williams.

Three new townships ; Elzevir, Madoc and Marmora were created in 1821 and on Monday, October 1, 1821 the first Hastings County fair was held in Belleville.

The township was named after legendary Welsh prince Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd, credited by some with discovering North America in 1170.

It was formed on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation of Huntingdon Township with the Village of Madoc.

Samson was played by Iain Glen, Manoa by David de Keyser, Dalila by Samantha Bond, Harapha by Philip Madoc, Public Officer by Matthew Morgan, Messenger by Michael Maloney and the Chorus by Tim Bentinck, Simon Treves and Sean Barrett.

Madoc or Madog ab Owain Gwynedd was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492.

The story claims that Madoc was disheartened by this fighting, and he and Rhirid set sail from Llandrillo ( Rhos-on-Sea ) in the cantref of Rhos to explore the western ocean with a small fleet of boats.

Willem's Madoc was possibly an adaptation of the Welsh Madoc story, though many of the later mentions associate the hero with a dream, perhaps instead identifying it as dream literature.

A Title Royal was submitted to Queen Elizabeth in 1580 which stated that " The Lord Madoc, sonne to Owen Gwynned, Prince of Gwynedd, led a Colonie and inhabited in Terra Florida or thereabouts " in 1170.

James A. Owen wrote the novel the Indigo King, in which it is discovered that Madoc was exiled from a place called the Archipelago of Dreams with his twin Myrddyn ( who becomes Merlin ).

Madoc was then banished in the Library of Alexandria, until he becomes Mordred and tries to become the High King Arthur, but is eliminated.

Dafoe was born in Madoc, Ontario, the son of a physician.

The first step in this undertaking was extending Highway 7 to Madoc along existing settler routes.

On November 18, 1931, construction was accelerated between Madoc and Perth as a major depression-relief project when eight contracts were set to build the new route.

Madoc was a legendary Welsh prince who allegedly discovered America in 1170.

Madoc was originally named MacKenzie's Mills after Donald MacKenzie, who built a sawmill and grist mill here.

It was briefly named Hastings but renamed Madoc Township after the legendary Welsh prince Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd, credited by some with discovering North America in 1170.

Ruth Madoc ( born 16 April 1943 in Norwich ) is a Welsh actress and singer.

Also, in The Sandman issue " Calliope " written by Neil Gaiman and pencilled by Kelley Jones, a character, Richard Madoc, writes a book " The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari ", an obvious pseudonym.

In August 1866, discovery of gold at Eldorado, near Madoc, caused great excitement throughout Hastings County as people flooded to the area from all over North America.

They discovered a distant and abundant land where one hundred men disembarked to form a colony, and Madoc and some others returned to Wales to recruit settlers.

Fittingly, Southey wrote Madoc to help finance a trip of his own to America, where he and Samuel Taylor Coleridge hoped to establish a Utopian state they called a " Pantisocracy ".

The Moira then heads east, enters the township of Stirling-Rawdon, and empties into Bend Bay on Moira Lake at an elevation of, south of the community of Madoc, where it takes in the left tributary Madoc Creek.

He has been a municipal councillor and deputy reeve in the municipality of Madoc, Ontario where he currently lives.

In 2007, Madoc appeared as " Y Llywydd " ( The President ) in S4C gangster series Y Pris, where he acted and spoke in his native Welsh.

Plan # 4-line starting at Cornwall and head to Newington, then run through Smiths Falls, Perth, Glen Tay and Actinolite, then junction at Madoc to the Grand Junction Railway, where running rights could be granted to Peterborough, more running rights over the Midland Railway of Canada from Peterborough to Orillia, then another granting of running rights over the Northern & North Western Railway from Orillia to Gravenhurst.

* According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailes to North America and founds a colony.

The village of Mumbles set the scene for a six part drama Ennals Point featuring Welsh actor Philip Madoc.

* e-book of Madoc, an epic poem in two volumes about the legendary Welsh prince Madoc.

" The Colloquy of Arthur and the Eagle ," a poem contemporary with but independent of Geoffrey, mentions another son of Uther named Madoc, the father of Arthur's nephew Eliwlod.

* On 7 October 2001 BBC Radio 3 broadcast a production of The Tempest adapted for radio and directed by David Hunter starring Philip Madoc as Prospero, Nina Wadia as Ariel, Josh Richards as Caliban, Catrin Rhys as Miranda, Andrew Cryer as Ferdinand, Rudolph Walker as Gonzalo, James Laurenson as Alonso, Christian Rodska as Sebastian and Ioan Meredith as Antonio.

In 1294, Madoc ap Llywelyn, a distant relation of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, began an uprising against English rule that spread quickly through Wales.

Notable guest stars in the series included Patrick Troughton, Peter Jeffrey, Brian Blessed, George Baker, Philip Madoc, Bryan Pringle, Iain Cuthbertson and Peter Bowles.

Thomas Stephens won a prize with an essay demolishing the claim of John Williams ( the events organiser ) that Madoc discovered America.

As Muldoon produced more collections the long poems gradually took up more space in the volume, until in 1990 the poem Madoc: A Mystery took over the volume of that name, leaving only seven short poems to appear before it.

Madoc: A Mystery, exploring themes of colonisation, is among Muldoon's most difficult works.

Muldoon's poem is inspired by Southey's work Madoc, about a legendary Welsh prince of that name.

The earliest documented references to the name " Port Madoc " are in the 1830s, coinciding with the opening of the Ffestiniog Railway and the subsequent growth of the town.

* Leisure centres – Wrexham has 7 leisure centres: Chirk, Clywedog, Darland, Gwyn Evans ( Gwersyllt ), Plas Madoc, Queensway and Waterworld, which offer activities including swimming, aerobics, climbing walls and yoga.

The contractors for the scheme were Messrs Hughes, Morris, Davies, a consortium led by Richard Hughes of Madoc Street, Llandudno.

Madoc Street and Gloddaeth Street and the Promenade become part of the route each day of a mid-day carnival parade.

David and the Doctor are also heading for the same destination, but are confronted by Brockley ( Philip Madoc ), an unscrupulous smuggler, who seizes their rifle in exchange for a promise to get them safely into the complex.

Philip Madoc later appeared in four Doctor Who television serials, including The Brain of Morbius.