Gafran

Gafran (son of Aeddan Fradog, son of Dyfnwal Hen) appears in some lists of Welsh saints, but Baring-⁠Gould says that there is no authority whatever for this. He was one of the "Men of the North", a warrior, wrongly foisted into two documents of the genealogies of the saints. The only church with any likeness of dedication is that of Llantrisant in Anglesey, usually given as dedicated to Saints Sannan, Afran and Ieuan, where Afran is undoubtedly a mistake for Afan.

In reality Gafran was the father of Aeddan, not his son; Aeddan was the celebrated king of Scottish Dalriada, known from the Irish annals, who died in 606. According to the Annales Cambriae Gafran died in 558, and his wife, Lluan, was a daughter of Brychan. Since he is honoured in some lists as Saint Gafran, he is entered here as a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization; but his holiness is not supported by the sources.