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Meirchion Gul, King of Rheged
(c.438-535)
(Welsh: Meirchion; Latin: Marcianus; English: Markian)
Meirchion the Lean,
presumably a very slim man, was the son of Gwrast
Lledlwm. He succeeded
his father as King of a united Rheged, though he lost Elmet to his younger
brother, Mascuid. Upon Meirchion's death in about
AD 535, the Kingdom was
divided between his two sons, Cynfarch Oer
and Elidyr Llydanwyn.