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Mawgan andMeugan (also Meigant) (Latin:Mauganus) are names referring to either one or two Brythonic saints who flourished in the 5th or 6th century.
Both names are widely attested in place-names and church dedications, Mawgan in Cornwall and Brittany and Meugan in Wales, but it is uncertain whether the names refer to one and the same person. The parishes ofSt Mawgan andMawgan-in-Meneage in Cornwall derive their names from Mauganus.[1] There is also aMachan inWest Lothian (Scotland), as shown by the place-nameEcclesmachan, but again this may be a distinct figure.
No hagiographicalLife survives for Mawgan or Meugan, but figures bearing Latinised versions of either of these names appear in theLives ofCadog andDavid. A saint called Maucan or Moucan features in an episode of the late 11th-centuryLife of Cadog, in which he arbitrates a quarrel between Cadog andMaelgwn, king of Gwynedd. ALife of David, also of the late 11th century, refers to a monastery of Mawgan (Maucannus). The "Mostyn Manuscript No. 88", in theNational Library of Wales, records several Meugan festivals, includingManchan of Mohill.[2]
Later still, Meugan is mentioned in the Welsh genealogical collection known asBonedd y Saint, which details the lineages of Welsh saints. The relevant section has been dated toc. 1510.
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