Editing Modron (section)

{{Short description|Figure in Welsh tradition}}
{{For|the creature from ''Dungeons & Dragons''|Modron (Dungeons & Dragons)}}
{{For|the village in Cornwall|Madron}}
{{Infobox deity
| type         = Welsh
| name         = Modron
| deity_of     = Goddess of sovereignty<ref name="IoMGMaodron">{{cite book |last=d'Este |first=Sorita |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Isles_of_the_Many_Gods/4GhrBAAACAAJ?hl=cy |title=The Isles of the Many Gods: An A-Z of the Pagan Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Britain worshipped during the First Millennium through to the Middle Ages |last2=Rankine |first2=David |date=2007 |publisher=Avalonia |pages=183-184 |language=English}}</ref>
| image        = Matrona Gaul goddess.jpg
| caption      = A statue of the goddess Modron found in Gaul
| cult_center  = Wales
| consort      = [[Urien Rheged|Urien]]<ref name="IoMGMaodron" />
| parents      = Perhaps [[Gwyn ap Nudd]] or [[Arawn]]<ref name="IoMGMaodron" />
| offspring    = [[Owain ab Urien]] and [[Morfydd|Morfudd ferch Urien]]<ref name="IoMGMaodron" />
| gender       = Female
| equivalent1_type = [[Gaul|Gullish]]
| equivalent1 = [[Dea Matrona|Matrona]]
}}
'''Modron''' ("mother")<ref>Blažek, Václav. “Indo-European kinship terms in *-ə̯2TER.” (2001). p. 28.</ref> is a figure in [[Welsh mythology|Welsh tradition]], known as the mother of the hero [[Mabon ap Modron]]. Both characters may have derived from earlier divine figures, in her case the [[Gaul]]ish goddess [[Dea Matrona|Matrona]]. She may have been a prototype for [[Morgan le Fay]] from the [[Arthurian legend]].