§ 1. It appears probable that all the members of Caradog's family were sent with him to Rome, and detained there during seven years, and that he was released with them from captivity at the expiration of that term. The Welsh genealogists assign three children to that hero, who all of them became subsequently distinguished personages; two sons, Cyllen and Eudaf, and a daughter called Eigen. Peaceful obscurity overshadows the remainder of Caradogs life; but his father, Brân ab Llyr, surnamed Fendigaid, proved, on his return to Siluria, according to the Welsh Triads, the greatest of his country's benefactors.

Their sojourn at Rome had, in part, been contemporary with that of St. Paul. Great probability, therefore, attaches to the assertion, that Brân and his granddaughter were Christian converts, and that the aged King of the Silures brought home with him four Christian missionaries, Hid, Cyndaf, and Mawan, men of Israel; and Arwystli Hen, a man of Italy. The latter has been identified with the Aristobulus of Rom. xvi. 10, who, according to the Greek martyrology, was ordained a bishop of the Britons by the great Apostle of the Gentiles.