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Sevira (a Vulgar Latin spelling of the Classical Latin name Severa) was a purported daughter of the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus and wife of Vortigern. She was mentioned on the fragmentary, mid-ninth century C.E. Latin inscription of the Pillar of Eliseg in the ancient commote of Yale, near Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire, Wales.
Maximus might have been the patron of Vortigern, who could rise in power under his brief reign from 383 until his death in 388. Welsh sources give Maximus two wives, a number of sons and at least one other daughter.
Sevira was a purported daughter of the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus and wife of Vortigern mentioned on the fragmentary, mid-ninth century C.E. Latin inscription of the Pillar of Eliseg near Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire, Wales.
Feb 6, 2023 · Daughter of Magnus Maximus, Western Roman Emperor. Wife of Vortigern, King of the Britons. Mother of Caderyn Fendigaid ap Gwrtheyrn, Brenin Powys; St. Anna . verch Gwythern; Brydw ap Gwrtheyrn; Pasgen ap Gwrtheyrn; Vortimer Fendigaid ap Gwrtheyrn, High King of Britain and 2 others.
- "Sevira (Severa verch Macsen)"
- Caer Gloui, Gwent, North Wales
- circa 388
- circa 459 (62-79)Powys, Wales
- Biography: in History
- Biography: in Legend
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Respected genealogist Stewart Baldwin has stated, "although Magnus Maximus was historical, and there is no good reason to doubt the existence of Vortigern, Helen is completely fictional, and Severa was probably also an early invention."
Pillar of Eliseg
Severa's name and place in history or legend has one source: The Pillar of Eliseg, a pillar erected by a Welsh king in the 9th century. A rough English translation of the inscription Latin inscription would be: Maximus of Britain [Conce]nn, Pascen[t], Mau[n], An[n]an [+] Britu, moreover, (was) the son of Guorthi(girn), whom Germanus blessed and whom Severa bore to him, the daughter of Maximus the king, who slew the king of the Romans. Or, in list form: 1. Severa was the daughter of Maximus th...
Name
If Magnus Maximus, the Roman governor of Britain, had a daughter Severa, it would make sense to assign her a Latin "last name." The language of the local people being Brythonic, ancestor of Welsh, a Brythonic form of her hame might be Severa ferch Macsen Wledlg
Parents
Seveira is said to be the daughter of Magnus Maximus.In some legendary material her mother is said to be named Helen.
Boyer
Vortigern was alleged by Peate to have married first an unknown woman who was the mother of all of his children except Brydw. 1. Brydw, flourished 433-462. Note -- if he flourished beginning at age 25, an estimated birth date could be 408. If he were the only child, the marriage might have taken place 407. If a typical age at marriage was 18, then Severa could have been born any time before the year 389. A birth at 370, as presently shown, would make her aged 38 at a year 408 birth year for h...
Children Linked on WikiTree
1. Cynderyn ap Gwrtheyrn 2. Vortimer Fendigaid 3. Brydw Ap Vortigen 4. Pascent (Gwrtheyrn) ap Vortigen
Line of Descent from Magnus Maximus
The following substantially legendary line of descent is mostly derived from Historum Brittainorum, dated 828, so at its earliest it is reporting events 500 years earlier without further documentation. 1. Emperor Magnus Maximus (c. 335-388) (? m. Helen) 2. Severa m. Vortigern, King of Britain (c. 370-c. 441) 3. Pascent, King of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion (b. c. 410) 4. Riagath, King of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion (b. c. 445) 5. Mepurit, King of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion (b. c. 485) 6. Paul, King of Bu...
In a discussion on theSoc.Gen.Medieval List, Isla McDonald displayed a line of descent provided in Peter Bartrum's Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500 , with dates adjusted by her. The descent...Robert Vermaat, Vortigern Studies.Sevira 1999-2008. Accessed Sept 8, 2017. jhdLJ Pellman Consolidated Family_2011-03-21.ged on 21 March 2011.The inscription on the Pillar of Eliseg, a mid-9th century stone cross in North Wales, gives the Brythonic variant of Vortigern: Guorthigern, a name similar to Vortigern, or Gildas' "super...- Female
- Gwrtheyrn ap Gwidol
Equally, this might very well have been the source for the tale of incest in which Vortigern married his own daughter. The pillar is also the only source for Sevira, Vortigern's (first) wife. We may credit this story, though it is chronologically difficult but not impossible.
He was also a rich land-owner, married to a daughter (Sevira) of the late usurper Magnus Maximus. By the year 425 he became the most powerful man in Britain, though he ruled with a Council of representatives (proto-princes) from the Civitates and other emerging centres of regional power.
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