Editing Mark of Cornwall (section)

==King Mark==
[[File:Tristan Quilt, V&A 03.jpg|thumb|14th-century depiction of Mark of Cornwall, from the [[Tristan Quilt]]|alt=Mark on a light-coloured quilt]]

{{See also|Conomor}}

In [[Old Welsh]] records, Mark is recorded as "March son of [[Meirchion]]" of Kernow ([[Cornwall]]). He is associated with governing portions of [[Gwynedd]] and [[Glamorgan]] in Wales.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/markcw.html|title = EBK: King Marc of Cornwall}}</ref> The distance of these areas from modern day [[Cornwall]] may indicate that Mark was in fact a ruler of the eponymous [[Cornovii]].<ref name="Strange (2025)">{{cite web|last=Strange|first=O|title=The Lost Land of the Cornovii|url=https://www.academia.edu/127089896/The_Lost_Land_of_the_Cornovii|accessdate=18 January 2025}}</ref> Mark has been identified with [[Conomor]], a king of Domnonea and Kernev ([[Domnonée]] and [[Cornouaille]]) in [[Armorica]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historicaltimes.org/post/drustan-and-esyllt-the-lost-romance|title=Drustan and Esyllt – the Lost Romance?|date=11 February 2022}}</ref>

In his ''Life of St. [[Paul Aurelian|Pol de Leon]]'', Wrmonoc of Landévennec refers to a "King Marc whose other name is Quonomorus". Also rendered as ''Cunomorus'', the name means "Hound-of-the-sea".<ref name="Thomas">Thomas, Charles (1986). ''Celtic Britain''. London: Thames & Hudson {{ISBN|0-500-02107-4}}; p. 70</ref>

An inscription on a sixth-century gravestone near the Cornish town of [[Fowey]] memorializes (in [[Latin]]) a "Drustanus son of Cunomorus", and it has been thought that this is the "Tristan son of Mark (alias 'Quonomorus')" of legend.<ref name="longstone">{{cite web|url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8342|title=Tristan Stone [Longstone] Early Christian Sculptured Stone|website=The Megalithic Portal}}</ref> The present location of the stone is at {{gbmapping|SX112521}}, but it was originally at [[Castle Dore]]. It has a mid-6th-century, two-line inscription which has been interpreted as DRVSTANVS HIC IACIT CVNOWORI FILIVS ("Drustan lies here, of Cunomorus the son"). A now-missing third line was described by the 16th-century antiquarian John Leland as CVM DOMINA OUSILLA ("with the lady Ousilla"). Ousilla is a Latinisation of the Cornish female name Eselt.<ref>[[Craig Weatherhill]], ''Cornovia: Ancient sites of Cornwall and Scilly 4000 BC – 1000 AD''.</ref> The stone led to Mark's association with [[Castle Dore]].