Princess of Dumnonia Saint Ursula verch Dynod Dumnonia

305 - 410  (105 years)

• Name	Saint Ursula verch Dynod Dumnonia  [1, 2]
  Title	Princess of Dumnonia
  Birth	305  [1, 2]
  	Ancient Rome
  Gender	Female
  Ordained	St. Ursula and 10,000 maidens were massacred by pagan Huns at Cologne when Ursula refused to marry their chieftain  [3]
  		Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
  Religion	She was the daughter of a Christian British king
  Death	410	North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I10211	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	King of Brittany Conan Meriadog ap Gereint Brittany,   b. Abt 305, Bretagne, France d. Abt 367, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Ancient Rome, Italy  [2]
  Family ID	F3054	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

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  Martyrdom of Saint Ursula

  
  

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  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Saint Ursula Verch Dynod, Princess of Dumnonia [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S454] Saints, Saint Ursula. According to a legend that appeared in the tenth century, Ursula was the daughter of a Christian king in Britain and was granted a three year postponement of a marriage she did not wish, to a pagan prince. With ten ladies in waiting, each attended by a thousand maidens, she embarked on a voyage across the North sea, sailed up the Rhine to Basle, Switzerland, and then went to Rome. On their way back, they were all massacred by pagan Huns at Cologne in about 451 when Ursula refused to marry their chieftain. According to another legend, Amorica was settled by British colonizers and soldiers after Emporer Magnus Clemens Maximus conquered Britain and Gaul in 383. The ruler of the settlers, Cynan Meiriadog, called on King Dionotus of Cornwall for wives for the settlers, whereupon Dionotus sent his daughter Ursula, who was to marry Cynan, with eleven thousand maidens and sixty thousand common women. Their fleet was shipwrecked and all the women were enslaved or murdered. The legends are pious fictions, but what is t http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=325