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Saint Henwg of Caerlleon upon Usk was a 5th-century saint and church builder.

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Henwg was a pre-congregational saintofWales,^[1]^[2] born about 487. His father was reputed to have been Umbrafel son of Budoc and his mother, Afrelia the daughter of Vortimer Fendigaid, a son of Vortigen and Severa Verch Macsen.

His brother is said to be Maglor Ap Umbraphel (485-575), and another Unknown sibling.

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He was reputed to be from CaerleoninSouth Wales and legend associates him with King Arthur and Constantine the Great. Very little is factually known of his life: most of what is known come from the songs of Taliesin the bard, his son who built a Church in his memory at Llanbenwg.^[3] He is recorded as having gone on a mission to Rome to ask the Roman Emperor to send Saint Germanus and Saint Lupus to assist in the Christianisation of Britain.

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^ David Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford: (Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 256–257.

^ John Henry Newman, Lives of the English Saints, (London: Freemantle, 1901), vol. 3, pp. 40–41.

^ C. Schreiber, The Mabinogion (Google eBook) (Рипол Классик, In the library of Jesus College, Oxford).page 471.

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