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Uncertain, but perhaps from the Welsh for 'fortunate'1
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Madoc ‘ProudneckBrandybuck

Successor to Gormadoc the Deepdelver

Masters of Buckland

The eldest son of Gormadoc the Deepdelver, Madoc carried on the title of the Masters of Buckland. We know little of Madoc himself, but his title 'Proudneck' suggests that he had quite a determined and single-minded attitude. He married Hanna Goldworthy, and their son - and Madoc's heir - was Marmadoc Brandybuck.


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'Fortunate' is one possible direct interpretation of Madoc's name, but it might alternatively come from the saint's name Máedóc. There is some reason to think that this alternative is the correct one, because the name of Madoc's son Marmadoc comes from Máel Máedóc, 'devotee or follower of Máedóc'. The origins of the name Máedóc are complicated, deriving from Áed (literally 'fire', but used of the mythological Irish prince of the underworld). Máedóc is a diminutive form, so in this alternative sense we might interpret the name Madoc as 'little fire'.

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