If the genealogies are correct this ruler was the grandson of Morcant Bulc, and lived in the latter half of the sixth century. He is probably the same as the avaricious king Morken who appears in Jocelyne’s Life of St. Kentigern and who is described as ruling the Cambrian kingdom in the territory of the Clyde in the early years of Kentigern’s ministry, around the 580s. Morken had probably expanded the kingdom of his grandfather so that it stretched between the Votadini of Edinburgh across to the territory of the Alclud. This would have brought him into conflict with Urien of Rheged which resulted in Morcant killing Urien. There does not seem to have been any retribution for this unless we read something more into the legends of St. Kentigern. Kentigern had asked Morken for provender for the new community he had established at Glasgow. Morken refushed saying that, if Kentigern’s god was so powerful, He could provide. Following Kentigern’s prayers the river Clyde flooded destroying all of Morken’s corn. Morken was furious and determined to expel Kentigern from his lands, but he seems to have been smitten with some ailment of the foot from which he died, and which plagued his descendants thereafter. The relationship between Urien and Morcant has caused some commentators to speculate that Morcant may be the original of Mordred whose similar lust for revenge and power resulted in the death of Arthur.540