Budic II of Brittany

According to genealogical and hagiographical sources, Budic II succeeded to the throne of Cornouaille c. 478. He was expelled by a cousin and went into exile at the court of King Aircol Lawhir of Dyfed. While at Dyfed he married Anowed (Arianwedd), sister of Saint Teilo. After the death of the usurping relative, Budic returned to Brittany and reclaimed his throne. Genealogies and later medieval writers attribute multiple children to him — several later venerated as saints (including Ismael, Euddogwy, Tyfei and, in some accounts, Hoel I Mawr and a daughter Gwen) — tying his dynasty into local ecclesiastical pedigrees. Upon his death his kingdom was later seized by Macliau, king of the Veneti. Medieval romance sources (notably Geoffrey of Monmouth and subsequent writers) also incorporate Budic into pan-British pseudo-histories with variant and contradictory marital and kinship claims connecting him to Arthurian figures.

The cited genealogical, hagiographical, and literary sources do not provide any contemporary physical description or iconography for Budic II. References to him are textual — appearing in regnal lists, saints' lives, and later medieval romance — and none of the supplied materials record portraiture, clothing details, stature, or other bodily attributes.

The sources ascribe to Budic II political and dynastic agency rather than supernatural powers. He is portrayed as a regional king who experienced succession, exile, marriage into Welsh royal/hospitable networks, and restoration to rule. In hagiographical material Budic is associated with Saint Teilo: Teilo is said to have subdued a 'terrible dragon' that had terrorised the countryside at Budic's request and to have tied it to a rock in the sea. The dragon episode is explicitly attributed to Saint Teilo's action; Budic himself is not described as possessing magical or supernatural abilities in the cited sources.