Wikipedia's King who Doesn't Exist

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. Annun Ddu is not a royal figure, he is not Valerian's son and Cleopatra did not give birth to Aurelian. He is not the same Annun as the son of Magnus Maximus, and certainly not really the great-grandfather of the

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s of Gwent.  He did not rule Dyfed, he did not rule Gwent, and this Annun did not rule Brycheiniog, but that did not stop people from mixing and matching and combining their names, whether by a genealogist in the 19th century, or a forger in the 19th century, or by a well-meaning editor on January 4, 2019.

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