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Cadian

Discussion of the name

The name which DB spells Cadiand was left unresolved by von Feilitzen (1937: 213), who noted merely that it was ‘evidently an OW name in Cat– (pron. kad–)’. It is in fact clearly the same as the Old Welsh masculine name Cadian, which appears once in the Welsh genealogies.

The Cadian of the genealogies features in the pedigree of Maredudd and Llywelyn Benwyn, which is traced back through Cadian to his grandfather Bod Hen. Cadian is assigned to the generation born c. 1100 (with large margins either side) and was the ancestor of families based in Arwystli, the cantref which encompassed the headwaters of the Wye and the Severn in mid Wales (Bartrum 1963: 108, 131, no. 18; Bartrum 1974: I, p. 129). On both geographical and chronological grounds there can be no connection with Cadian 2, but the existence of Cadian ap Cadfael Lwytgoed ap Bod Hen demonstrates the currency of the personal name in mid Wales in the later eleventh century.

Besides the solitary Cadian of the genealogies, there are three examples of Cadien (for Catgen) in the Book of Llandaff charters (dated between c. 650 and c. 980) (Davies 1979: index) but no similar name in the acta of the Welsh princes 1120–1283 (Pryce 2005: index).

Bibliography

Bartrum 1963: P. C. Bartrum, ‘Pedigrees of the Welsh tribal patriarchs [part 1]’, National Library of Wales Journal, 13 (1963–4), 93–146

Bartrum 1963: Welsh Genealogies, A.D. 300–1400, comp. Peter Clement Bartrum, 8 vols (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1974)

Davies 1979: Wendy Davies, The Llandaff Charters (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1979)

Pryce 2005: The Acts of Welsh Rulers, 1120–1283, ed. Huw Pryce with Charles Insley (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Cadiand

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Cadiand

Phillimore edition: Cadiand

Alecto edition: Cadiand

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Herefordshire	Phil. ref. 1,53	Vill Kilpeck	DB Spelling Cadiand	Holder 1066 Cadian 'of Kilpeck'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant William fitzNorman	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 4.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Cadian 2 - Cadian ‘of Kilpeck’ in Archenfield (Herefs.), fl. 1066