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The Kingdom of Kernow existed during the Early Middle Ages in Britain 's Southwestern peninsula. Its name derives from a Brythonic grouping recorded by the Romans as the ''Cornovii''. ''Kernow'' is the Cornish Language name of Cornwall to this day, with cognates in Welsh ''Cernyw'' and Breton ''Kernev''. (''Kernev'' is also the Breton form of the region of Brittany known in French as Cornouaille .) Its Latin name is ''Dumnonia''. It was known to the English of neighbouring Wessex as the kingdom of the ''West Welsh'', later as '' Cornwall ''. Its kings include King Mark ( Marcus Cunomorus ) of Tristan And Iseult fame (early 6th Century ), King Constantine (later known as Saint Constantine after his conversion to Christianity in 586 ; see also Constantine III Of Britain ), two kings named Geraint, both of which have been associated with a Battle Of Llongborth ( Langport ), though they lived 200 years apart (see Geraint and Geraint Of Dumnonia ), King Dumgarth (d. 878 ), King Hoel (c. 920 ), and King Cynan (c 935 ). Its territory in the 5th Century and the first half of the 6th Century appears to have covered modern Cornwall , Devon and Somerset , and the Brythonic colony on the Continent later known as Brittany . It may possibly have included parts of Dorset , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire until the Battle Of Dyrham in 577 . It lost the part of Somerset east and north of the River Parrett to Wessex in 658 and the rest of Somerset in 710 . The modern eastern border of Cornwall was set in 927 by Athelstan and its kings subordinated to the rank of Earl. In 1066 the last native Earl of Cornwall, Earl Cadoc, was deposed by William The Conqueror . SEE ALSO
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