Madog ab Owain Gwynedd
Welsh prince who sailed to America in folklore · Historical Figures · Born 1150
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Something wrong?In Welsh folklore, Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd was a Welsh prince who sailed to the Americas in 1170, over 300 years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492. According to the story, Madoc was a son of Owain Gwynedd who went to sea to flee internecine violence at home.
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Madog. Book illustration by A.S. Boyd, 1909.
A map of c. 1577 depicting Conwy, Penrhyn, and Llandrighlo (Rhos-on-Sea)
George Catlin thought the Mandan bull boat to be similar to the Welsh coracle.
Madoc's proponents believe earthen fort mounds at Devil's Backbone along the Ohio River to be the work of Welsh colonists.
Madoc, Ontario, Canada.
Aber-kerrik-gwynan, modern day Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, Colwyn Bay, on the north coast of Wales where the myth claims Madog set sail for Alabama, USA.Family
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In Welsh folklore, Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd was a Welsh prince who sailed to the Americas in 1170, over 300 years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492. According to the story, Madoc was a son of Owain Gwynedd who went to sea to flee internecine violence at home. The "Madoc story" evolved from a medieval tradition about a Welsh hero's sea voyage, of which only allusions survive. The story reached its greatest prominence during the Elizabethan era when English and Welsh writers wrote of the claim Madoc had gone to the Americas as an assertion of prior discovery, and hence legal possession, of North America by the Kingdom of England.
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