Wethenoc or
Gwethenoc or
Guethenoc was a 5th-century pre-congregational
Bretons saint.
[Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain, volume 3, p. 38 (1911).][Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).][Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (OUP Oxford, 2000 pp225.)][Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Routledge, 2003) p86.]
Life
A son of
Saint Fragan of
Dumnonia and
Gwen Teirbron of Brittany, he grew up at
Ploufragan near
Saint-Brieuc (in northwestern France) with his brothers,
Winwaloe and
Jacut. They were later joined by a sister,
Klervi. He was educated by
Budoc on
the Île Lavret near
Paimpol.
[Bowen, E. G. Saints, Seaways and Settlements, p. 189 (University of Wales Press 1969). (2nd ed. 1977).] Wethenoc was also the half brother of
Saint Cadfan.
