Caradoc of Llancarfan

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Caradoc of Llancarfan was a monk at the monastery of Llancarfan in Wales during the 12th century. He was the author of a largely fictional Life of Gildas in Latin, and began the Historie of Cambria, a chronical of Welsh history that was later taken up by David Powel in the 16th century. He was a contemporary of Geoffrey of Monmouth, author of the Historia Regum Britanniae, and was the first to describe the abduction of King Arthur's wife Guinevere in writing; the scene would later become a major episode in the Arthurian legend.