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Gwen Teirbron (French: Blanche; Latin: Alba Trimammis or Candida; possibly English: Wite) was a Breton holy woman and wife of Fragan who supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century. Her epithet is Welsh for ' (of the) three breasts'.
St. Gwen Teirbron (Born c. AD 499) (Welsh: Gwen; Latin: Candida; English: Wite) Princess Gwen the Triple-Breasted was one of the daughters of Emyr llydaw alias King Budic II of Brittany, born around the turn of the 6th century. She was known to the French as St. Blanche, and sometimes, in written Latin, as Alba Trimammis.
Telephone: 01297 678566. St Gwenn Teirbron. Gwenn – by legend triple-breasted - was a daughter of King Budic II of Brittany, and was born around AD499. She was twice married. To her first husband, Fracan, cousin to King Cado of Dumnonia, she bore three children, all of whom became saints -Wethnoc, Iacob and Winwaloe.
October 18. Saint of the day: Saint Gwen Teirbron or Saint Wite. In French Gwen is Blanche. Gwen means "white" or "pure" Saint Gwen Teirbron's Story. St. Wite (Candida, Gwen, Blanche; her name means “white”), is one of the most beloved and visited saints, venerated by modern Orthodox living in the UK.
Overview. Gwen Teirbron of Brittany. Quick Reference. (date unknown). She was reputedly married twice and the mother of Winwaloe, Gwethenoc, and James. Called three-breasted, she was represented as such in Breton folk-art. It has been conjectured that she should be identified with Whyte (or Candida).
Jan 10, 2015 · Saint-Gwen was called Teirbron, the 'three-breasted', because she had been twice married and had children from two husbands. Her ‘royal’ connections in Brittany allowed her to make a claim for tribal land which she enclosed at Pléguien, just north of Châtelaudren and northwest of her husband's plou ('parish') at Ploufragan.
The eighteenth of July is the feast of the sixth-century Saint Gwen Teirbron of Brittany. Her cognomen, ‘Teirbron’, means ‘ three-breasted ’, and she has had far more names than breasts. Having devotions in France and England as well as Wales and Brittany, she is known variously by Gwenn, Alba, Blanche, Candida, Ceridwen and Hwíta (or ...
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