Budic II of Brittany

Budic II (; or ; ), formerly known as Budick, was a king of Cornouaille in Brittany in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. He was father of Hoel as well as several Celtic saints.

Life Budic II was born in Cornouaille to a member of its royal family, possibly Erich of Brittany. He was named after his uncle Budic I of Brittany. Budic II succeeded to the throne, , Teilo was able to subdue the beast and tied it to a rock in the sea.

The date of his death is uncertain. Some sources claim he died in 545. However, this contradicts other sources which claim that Saint Teilo had fled to France in 549 to escape the Yellow Plague of Rhos and had spent time in Brittany in Budic's company. Upon his death, his kingdom was usurped by Macliau, king of the neighbouring Veneti. A fourth son (credited to Emyr Llydaw, that is the "Emperor of Brittany", in late Welsh sources) was Hoel I Mawr, whose son Tewdwr eventually succeeded to the kingdom of Cornouaille.

One of his daughters was Saint Gwen the Three-Breasted, who married Saint Fragan (also a member of the dynasty in Dumnonia) and bore him Saints Wethenoc, Jacut, Winwaloe, and Creirwy. She then married Eneas Ledewig ("Aeneas the Breton") and bore him Saint Cadfan.

Arthurian legend In Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain, Budic is said at different places to have married a sister of Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon (making him Arthur's uncle) and to have married Pendragon's daughter Anna (making him Arthur's brother-in-law). This confusion reappears in Wace and Layamon, although most later sources make his son Hoel Arthur's "cousin". In later romances, a possibly derived character of King Nentres (also written Neuntres among other forms) of Garlot marries Arthur's half-sister Elaine (also known as Blasine).