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The Silures were a powerful and warlike tribe or tribal confederation of ancient Britain , occupying what is now south east ___MASK63___ and perhaps some adjoining areas . They were bordered to the north by the Ordovices ; to the east by the Dobunni ; and to the west by the Demetae . A petty kingdom is a kingdom described as minor or " petty " by contrast to an empire or unified kingdom that either preceded or succeeded it ( e . g . the numerous kingdoms of Anglo - Saxon ___MASK18___ unified into the ___MASK75___ in the 10th century , or the numerous Gaelic kingdoms of Ireland unified under the ___MASK75___ as the ___MASK83___ in the 16th ). Alternatively , a petty kingdom would be a minor kingdom in the immediate vicinity of larger kingdoms , such as the medieval Kingdom of Mann and the Isles relative to the kingdoms of Scotland or ___MASK18___ or the Viking kingdoms of Scandinavia . Glywys is a legendary early 5th century Welsh king , an important character in early Welsh genealogies as the eponymous founder king of Glywysing , a south - east Welsh kingdom whose heartland lay between the Tawe and the Usk . In one genealogy Glywys is reckoned the eldest son of Solor , son of Mor . He is said to have married Gwawl , the daughter of Ceredig of Ceredigion : one legend states they had twenty two children , all male bar one . fathered and the churchmen Pedrog and Edelig . According to twelfth century sources , after the death of Glywys the kingdom was divided into three cantrefi , Gwynllwg , Penychen and Gorfynydd , by his sons Gwynllyw father of Cadoc , Pawl and Merchwyn respectively , though Glwysing still existed and would later become Glamorgan . Gwynllyw gave his name to Newport Cathedral and also to Wentlooge , while Pawl may have been mixed up with Paul Aurelian . Glywys ' name may be a back - formation from the name of the kingdom and Glywysing ' s name may continue that of the Romano - British * Glevenses , the territory and citizens of Glevum , or Gloucester . Such invented founding kings are not uncommon in British genealogy . `` Gloucester '' ( Glowancestre , 1282 ) derives from the Old English ceaster , `` fort '' , preceded by the Roman stem Glev - ( pronounced glaiw ) . In Old Welsh , the city was known as Caerloyw , caer = castle , and loyw from gloyw = glowing / bright . Hence Gloucester has been given a similar founder , Gloyw : genealogies of Vortigern make him a descendant of Gloyw through his father Vitalus and his grandfather Vitalinus , while a lineage in the Bonedd y Saint makes saint Mechyll fab Echwys the grandson of Gwyn Glohoyw and the great - grandson of Gloyw Wallt - Lydan . In the Mabinogi , similarly , Pryderi marries Cigfa , `` daughter of Gwyn Glohoyw , son of Gloyw Wallt - Lydan , son of Casnar Wledig '' . Nevertheless Glywys is believed to have become a hermit in his later life and travelled to Cornwall where he founded the church of Penryn . He is sometimes referred to as the Cornish Glywys , Glywys Cernyw . Glywysing was , from the sub - Roman period to the Early Middle Ages , a petty kingdom in south - east ___MASK63___ . Its people were descended from the Iron Age tribe of the Silures . The Early Middle Ages ( or early medieval period ) marked the start of the Middle Ages of European History , lasting from the 6th to the 10th century C . E . The Early Middle Ages followed the decline of the ___MASK94___ and preceded the High Middle Ages ( c . 10th to 13th centuries ). The Early Middle Ages largely overlap with Late Ant1iquity . The term " Late Antiquity " is used to emphasize elements of continuity with the Roman Empire , while " Early Middle Ages " is used to emphasize developments characteristic of the later medieval period .