Bledudo (Welsh: Blaiddyd)

Bledudo (Welsh: Blaiddyd)

Minor Spiritwell-documentedMedieval Welsh/Anglo‑Norman regnal genealogyPseudo‑historical compilations of British kingsBritain
Origin

Bledudo appears only within the sequence of kings preserved in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s regnal lists and their later reproductions and transcriptions. The surviving attestations treat him as a named entry in a continuous list of rulers used to construct a legendary British past; one modern summary gives a conventional chronology placing his accession around 191 BC. He is described as the second bearer of this name in those lists and is recorded in manuscript rolls and printed/transcribed pseudo‑historical lists rather than in narrative sagas or miracula.

Appearance

No contemporary or later source in the provided material supplies a physical description of Bledudo. He survives in the record only as an inscribed name in regnal lists and genealogical rolls (for example, MS B.30 fol. 30, where his name appears in a roundel inscribed 'BLEDUDO'). The manuscript and printed lists present him as a textual entry without attendant portraiture or descriptive detail in the cited sources.

Abilities

The sources attribute no supernatural powers, specific deeds, policies, or defining behaviors to Bledudo. He functions strictly as a regnal entry: a named king placed in succession (preceded by Merianus and followed in many lists by Cap, though some manuscript sequences vary). No narrative actions, miraculous events, or administrative acts are recorded in the provided regnal material.

Weaknesses & Wards

Weaknesses

  • other
    none attested in sources

Wards

  • other
    none attested in sources

Community Record

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