Umbrafel
Umbrafel (born in 466 AD) was a 6th-century saint of Wales and nobleman of Brittany.
Umbrafel, born in 466 AD was a son of Budic I of Brittany. He was the brother of , the father of Maglorius and uncle of Samson of Dol. His wife, Afrelia was, in the fiction of Geofrey of Monmouth, the daughter of , a son of Vortigern and Severa Verch Macsen. Their children were Maglor Ap Umbraphel b485-575,[1] Henoc Ap Umbraphel (b487) and another unknown child Ap Verch Umbraphel.
Samson persuaded his parents to join a monastery,[2] and at that time Umbrafel and his wife Afrelia, decided to do likewise.
References[]
- ^ Julia M. H. Smith, St Maglorius, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ Adrien Baillet, Les Vies des Saints, avec l'histoire de leur culte, selon qu ..., Volume 2(chez la Veuve Roulland, 1724) p401.
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