Princess of Dumnonia Saint Ursula verch Dynod Dumnonia

305 - 410  (105 years)

• Name	Saint Ursula verch Dynod Dumnonia  [1]
  Title	Princess of Dumnonia
  Birth	305  [1]
  	Ancient Rome
  Gender	Female
  Ordained	St. Ursula and 10,000 maidens were massacred by pagan Huns at Cologne when Ursula refused to marry their chieftain  [2]
  		†Martyrdom-SAINT URSULA Ursula declared that before her marriage she would undertake a pan-European pilgrimage. She headed for Rome with her followers and persuaded Pope Cyriacus , and Sulpicius, bishop of Ravenna, to join them. After setting out for Cologne, which was being besieged by Huns, all the virgins were beheaded in a massacre. The Huns' leader fatally shot…
  Religion	She was the daughter of a Christian British king
  Death	410	North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany   [1]
  Person ID	I10260	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	King of Brittany Conan Meriadog ap Gereint Brittany,   b. Abt 305, Bretagne, France d. Abt 367, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Ancient Rome, Italy  [3]
  Family ID	F3105	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

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  Death - 410 - North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Old World		†Martyrdom-SAINT URSULA Ursula declared that before her marriage she would undertake a pan-European pilgrimage. She headed for Rome with her followers and persuaded Pope Cyriacus , and Sulpicius, bishop of Ravenna, to join them. After setting out for Cologne, which was being besieged by Huns, all the virgins were beheaded in a massacre. The Huns' leader fatally shot…
  		†Saint Ursula Ursula is a legendary Romano-British Christian saint who died on 21 October 383 or 385. Her feast day in the pre-1970 Calendarium Romanum Generale (General Roman Calendar) is 21 October. There is little information about her and the anonymous group of holy virgins who accompanied and, on an uncertain date, were killed along with her at Cologne

  
  

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  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Saint Ursula Verch Dynod, Princess of Dumnonia [S547] Saints, Saint Ursula. According to a legend that appeared in the tenth century, Ursula was the daughter of a Christian king in Britain and was granted a three year postponement of a marriage she did not wish, to a pagan prince. With ten ladies in waiting, each attended by a thousand maidens, she embarked on a voyage across the North sea, sailed up the Rhine to Basle, Switzerland, and then went to Rome. On their way back, they were all massacred by pagan Huns at Cologne in about 451 when Ursula refused to marry their chieftain. According to another legend, Amorica was settled by British colonizers and soldiers after Emporer Magnus Clemens Maximus conquered Britain and Gaul in 383. The ruler of the settlers, Cynan Meiriadog, called on King Dionotus of Cornwall for wives for the settlers, whereupon Dionotus sent his daughter Ursula, who was to marry Cynan, with eleven thousand maidens and sixty thousand common women. Their fleet was shipwrecked and all the women were enslaved or murdered. The legends are pious fictions, but what is t http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=325 [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.