Dungarth the Last, King of Dumnonia
(Born c.AD 835)
(Welsh: Dyngad; Latin: Doncatus; English: Duncan)

Perhaps a great great grandson of Dungarth I, this later Dungarth was traditionally the last King of Dumnonia and is said to have held court at Lis-Cerruyt (Liskeard). He is recorded in the Annales Cambriae as having drowned in 876. Traditionally this was during a hunting expedition. Part of his memorial cross, inscribed in Latin 'Domiert ordered this [erected] for [the sake of] his soul', can be seen at St. Cleer. It is known as the the Doniert Stone.

The cross inscription shows that this late Dungarth was clearly historic.

 

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