page_title: Keyne
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Keyne / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: St Keyne's Well. This plaque, erected by the Liskeard Old Cornwall Society in 1936, stands opposite the well - see 1556008.
context_page_description: Keyne was a 5th-century holy woman and hermitess who said to have traveled widely through what is now South Wales and Cornwall.
context_section_description: Keyne was one of the 12 daughters of the Welsh king King Brychan of Brycheiniog in what is now South Wales (A different source, De Situ Brecheniauc, says that he actually had 24 daughters, all of whom were saints). Although she was a great beauty and received many offers of marriage, Keyne took a vow of virginity and pursued a religious life (hence her Welsh name, Cain Wyry, or Keyne the Maiden). Her vita reports that she traveled widely, and is said to have founded several oratories, including Llangeinor in mid Glamorgan, Llangunnor and Llangain in Dyfed, and Rockfield (Llangennon) in Runston, Gwent. Eventually she is said to have crossed the Severn into Cornwall, where she resided as a hermitess for many years. The village of  St Keyne in Cornwall, is named after her, and is the site of a church and a holy well which also takes her name.
  Around 490, she is alleged to have visited her nephew Saint Cadoc at St Michael's Mount. Cadoc persuaded her to return to Wales, and healing spring marked the location where she settled and eventually died. She died a virgin on 5 October in either 490 or 505.  Llangeinor in Glamorgan has been proposed as a likely spot, as an ancient well is situated there, which is still said to have healing properties.
caption: Plaque at St Keyne's well
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