Conan Meriadoc

Who was Conan Meriadoc?

Conan Meriadoc is a legendary Brittonic leader credited with founding Brittany. Versions of his story circulated in both Brittany and Great Britain from at least the early 12th century, and supplanted earlier legends of Brittany's foundation. His story is known in two major versions, which appear in the Welsh text known as The Dream of Maxen Wledic, and in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Both texts associate him with Maxsen Wledic, a Roman usurper of the Valentinian dynasty who was widely regarded as having deprived Britain of its defenses when he took its legions to claim the imperial throne. Conan's cousin or sister Elen Luyddog is said to have been Maxsen Wledic's wife.