Marchell (Marcella)
Baring-Gould and Fisher list three saints under the name Marchell, a daughter of Tewdrig, a daughter of Brychan, and a daughter of Hawystl Gloff, who was a sister to Tyrnog and has associations with sites in north-east Wales, notably as patron of Llanfarchell, or Whitchurch, near Denbigh.
Texts
Mentioned as an ancestor to Cynog and Brychan in Dafydd Epynt's poem to Cynog.Poem to Cynog from the second half of the fifteenth century by Dafydd Epynt, who was probably from Merthyr Cynog.
Places
Church Dedication | Well | Placename | Landscape feature | Modern | Text |
1. Church of St Deiniol and St Marcella, Marchwiel , Denbighshire (Dedication)
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Further reading
S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1911), 436–8 View online