{{Short description|5th-century Breton saint}} '''Wethenoc''' or '''Gwethenoc''' or '''Guethenoc''' was a 5th-century pre-congregational Breton saint.<ref name=Baring3>Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. ''[https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa03bariuoft The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain]'', volume 3, p. 38 (1911).</ref><ref name=Butler>Butler, Alban. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=F4oEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275 The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints]'', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).</ref><ref>Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (OUP Oxford, 2000[https://books.google.com/books?id=JxIjiMStTKIC&dq=Wethenoc&pg=PA255 pp225].)</ref><ref>Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Routledge, 2003) [https://books.google.com/books?id=iAF_AgAAQBAJ&dq=Wethenoc&pg=PA86 p86].</ref>
==Life== A son of Prince Fragan of Dumnonia and Saint Gwen the Three-Breasted of Brittany, he grew up at Ploufragan near Saint-Brieuc (in northwestern France) with his brothers, Winwaloe and Jacut. They were later joined by a sister, Creirwy. He was educated by Budoc of Dol on ''the Île Lavret'' near Paimpol.<ref>Bowen, E. G. ''Saints, Seaways and Settlements'', p. 189 (University of Wales Press 1969). {{ISBN|0-7083-0650-0}} (2nd ed. 1977).</ref> Wethenoc was also the half brother of Cadfan.
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