Roman \"Abandonment\" of Britain: Fact or Fiction?

[Robert Vermaat]

Is there not evidence that Claudianus says that Stilicho needed legions from Gaul, Britain, Raetia, and Vindelcia, however it is only speculation on the part of Foord that the XX VV may have gone hence the later movement of Cunedda and his whole tribe to Wales that would have filled the gap left by the XXth

Cunedda has been the topic of much speculation, and we don't really know much about him. the mentioning of this guy and his dynasty can as likely have been a strategic move orchestrated by Magnus maximus, as a spin by the dynasty of Mervyn Frych (to stress that his dynasty was not the first from foreign parts). Cunedda can be dated to anything from the late 4th c. to the mod-5th, depending on your traslation of the word 'avatus', which strictly means ‘great- great- great- grandfather’, or rather more simply ‘ancestor’. In most pedigrees, Cunedda is only the great-grandfather of Maglocunus. Read more about this problem here: http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/artsou/gildwhen.htm