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• Appointments / Titles: Powys, Wales; Queen of Powys
• FSID: L71C-CSZ

Angharad married ap Hywel, King Owain in 932 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Owain (son of ap Cadell, Hywel and verch Llywarch, Princess Elen) was born in 913 in Dynefwr Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; was christened in 913 in Llandyfeisant Parish (Historic), Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died in 987 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; was buried in 987 in Dynefwr Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. ap Owain, King Maredudd was born in 938 in Dynefwr Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; was christened in Powys, Wales; died in 1010 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was buried in 1010 in Wales.

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• Appointments / Titles: King of Powys
• Appointments / Titles: Prince of Wales
• House: House of Aberffraw
• FSID: LDQ1-RBN

Llywelyn married verch Llywarch, Malit in 916 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Malit (daughter of ap Hyfaidd, Llywarch and Bleddri, Lady Rheingar Fenela) was born in 885 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died in DECEASED in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Queen Consort of Powys
• FSID: LCQH-64R

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• FSID: LDQ1-R1D
• Appointments / Titles: Between 878 and 900, Powys, Wales; King of Powys

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merfyn_ap_Rhodri

Merfyn ap Rhodri
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This is a Welsh name. It means Merfyn son of Rhodri.
Merfyn ap Rhodri (died c. 900) was a late 9th-century Aberffraw prince of Gwynedd. He is sometimes credited with ruling Powys after the death of his father Rhodri the Great in AD 878. In the accounts where he is credited as a king, he is reported to have lost his realm to an invasion by his brother Cadell, King of Ceredigion. Merfyn's death may be connected to the incursion into Anglesey by the Viking Ingimundr in the first decade of the 10th century.

The drowning of his son Haearnddur, or "Haardur", was reported by both the Chronicle of the Princes[1] and the Annals of Wales.[2] The first places it in the year 953; Phillimore's reconstruction of the latter's dating[3] would place it in 956.

Merfyn married verch Rheiny, Rhain in 878 in Carnarvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales. Rhain was born in 863 in Caernarfon, Caernarvonshire, Wales; died in 920 in Heinsberg, Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: GQTD-461

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• FSID: LCJW-T8Z
• Appointments / Titles: 904, Dyfed, Wales; King of Dyfed

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Llywarch married Bleddri, Lady Rheingar Fenela in 892 in Dynefwr Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Rheingar (daughter of Bleddri, Hyfaidd and verch Maredudd, N.N.) was born in 865 in Dinefwr Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died in 909 in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Princess of Dyfed
• FSID: L8YY-R1N

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• FSID: LDQ1-TMR
• Military: 843; The Gwentian Chronicle records that "Rhodri the Great opposed [Berthwrd king of Mercia]…with the assistance of Meuryg son of Hywel king of Glamorgan" in 843, adding that Meuryg was killed in the battle and was succeeded by "Ithel son of Hywel" who was killed by "the men of Brecknockshire" on his way to assist Rhodri.
• Appointments / Titles: Between 844 and 878; King of Gwynedd (succeeded his father, Merfyn Frych)
• Appointments / Titles: 844; Prince of Wales
• Military: 856; Won a notable victory against the Danish and killed their leader Gorm.
• Appointments / Titles: 856; King of Powys (succeeded his maternal uncle Cyngen ap Cadell)
• Appointments / Titles: 871; King of Seisyllwg
• Military: 872; Vvictories by Rhodri: the first at a place given as Bannoleu, where he defeated the Vikings
• Appointments / Titles: 877; King of the Britons

Notes:

877 AD; The Annals of Ulster record that "Rhodri, son of Merfyn, King of the Britons, came in flight from the dark foreigners to Ireland."

According to legend, the first Dinefwr Castle was build by Rhodri Mawr

"Roderick the Great" "Mawr the Great"

Rhodri ap Merfyn (c. 820–878), later known as Rhodri the Great (Welsh: Rhodri Mawr), succeeded his father, Merfyn Frych, as King of Gwynedd in 844. Rhodri annexed Powys c. 856 and Seisyllwg c. 871. He is called "King of the Britons" by the Annals of Ulster. In some later histories, he is referred to as "King of Wales", although the title is anachronistic and his realm did not include southern Wales.

Lineage and inheritance

Rhodri was the son of Merfyn Frych, who had claimed Gwynedd upon the extinction of Cunedda's male line. Rhodri then inherited the realm after his father's death around 844. Merfyn hailed from "Manaw" which may either refer to the Isle of Man or Manau, the ancestral homeland of all Gwynedd's kings since Cunedda.

According to later genealogies, his mother or grandmother was Nest ferch Cadell of the ruling dynasty in Powys. Although surviving texts of Welsh law expressly forbid inheritance along the maternal line, Nest and Rhodri's supposed inheritance was later used to justify Gwynedd's annexation of Powys after the c. 855 death of Cyngen ap Cadell in preference to Cyngen's other heirs.

Similarly, Rhodri's marriage to Angharad ferch Meurig was used to explain his supposed inheritance of her brother Gwgon's kingdom of Ceredigion after that king's death in 872[a] via a principle of jure uxoris that does not survive in our sources for Welsh law.

Reign
Now the master of much of modern Wales, Rhodri faced pressure both from the English and, increasingly, from Vikings, called the "black gentiles"[b] in the Welsh sources. The Danish are recorded ravaging Anglesey in 854. In 856, Rhodri won a notable victory and killed their leader Gorm.

The Chronicle of the Princes records two victories by Rhodri in 872: the first at a place given variously as Bangolau,[1] Bann Guolou,[2] or Bannoleu,[3] where he defeated the Vikings on Anglesey "in a hard battle"[1] and the second at Manegid[1] or Enegyd[4] where the Vikings "were destroyed".

The Chronicle of the Princes records his death occurring at the Battle of Sunday on Anglesey in 873;[1] the Annals of Wales record the two events in different years[2][3] and Phillimore's reconstruction of its dates places Rhodri's death in 877.[2] According to the Chronicle, Rhodri and his brother Gwriad were killed during a Saxon invasion (which probably would have been under Ceolwulf of Mercia, given that the Wessex forces under Alfred the Great were fighting Vikings in East Anglia at the time). The Annals record no great details of the death, but where the B text calls Gwriad Rhodri's brother,[3] the A text has him as Rhodri's son instead.[2] It is likely he was killed in battle given that all the sources call his son Anarawd's victory over the Mercians at the Battle of the Conwy a few years later "God's vengeance for Rhodri".

Succession
Rhodri died leaving at least four sons to share his land among themselves. The traditional account is that his eldest, Anarawd, became king of Gwynedd and the head of the subsequent House of Aberffraw which produced Gruffudd ap Cynan and Llywelyn the Great. Another, Cadell, was given Ceredigion and killed his brother Merfyn to claim Powys as well. Cadell's family was later known as the House of Dinefwr, after its base of operations was moved by Hywel the Good to Dyfed following another (supposed) inheritance via his marriage to Elen ferch Llywarch. Hywel's wide domain, later known as Deheubarth, briefly eclipsed Gwynedd under his immediate heirs before fracturing.

A fourth son, possibly too young to have been considered for the first division of Rhodri's lands, took part in Anarawd's 881 revenge against Mercia and, wounded there, became known to history as Tudwal the Lame, a condition disqualifying him from rule under Cyfraith Hywel, Welsh customary law.

Children
Anarawd ap Rhodri (died 913)[5]

Cadell ap Rhodri (854–907)[5]

Gwriad ap Rhodri: He had a son named Gwgawn who was killed in 955.[5]

Tudwal ap Rhodri (born 860)

Rhodri married verch Meurig, Queen Angharad in 840 in Gwynedd, Wales. Angharad (daughter of ap Dyfnwallon, Lord Meurig and N.N., Lady N.N.) was born in 825 in Wales; died in 900 in Wales; was buried in 900 in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Queen of Ceredigion
• Appointments / Titles: Queen of Deheubarth
• FSID: L8YY-RFF

Notes:

Angharad ferch Meurig was a 9th-century Welsh noblewoman. She was the wife of Rhodri the Great of Gwynedd, and mother of Anarawd (Rhodri's successor), Cadell ap Rhodri, and Merfyn.

Angharad was the daughter of Meurig, evidently the King of Seisyllwg in southwestern Wales. She married Rhodri Mawr of Gwynedd, who held power over much of Wales. Her brother Gwgon succeeded their father to the throne of Seisyllwg, but he drowned without an heir in 872. Subsequently, Angharad and Rhodri became caretakers of his kingdom. Rhodri had no standing to take the kingship himself, but the family connection allowed him to install his second son, Cadell, as king. Their first son, Anarawd, later succeeded Rhodri in Gwynedd. Their third son, Merfyn, is sometimes said to have been installed as King of Powys.

Angharad ferch Meurig was a 9th-century Welsh noblewoman.

Angharad was the daughter of Meurig, evidently the King of Seisyllwg in southwestern Wales.

Angharad married Rhodri ap Merfyn "Mawr/the Great", son of Merfyn "Frych/the Freckled" ap Gwriad King of Gwynedd & his wife Nest of Powys (-killed Anglesey 878).

Her brother Gwgon succeeded their father to the throne of Seisyllwg, but he drowned without an heir in 872. Subsequently, Angharad and Rhodri became caretakers of his kingdom. Rhodri had no standing to take the kingship himself, but the family connection allowed him to install his second son, Cadell, as king.

This addition to his realm must have been made soon after 872, when Gwgon, the last of the kings of Ceredigion, met his death by drowning; Rhodri's marriage to Angharad, the dead king's sister, while it gave him no sort of legal claim to the province, made it easy for him to intervene and invested his sons with rights there which would be more generally recognised.

Death: BET 864 AND 920 Anglesey, Wales

1.) Anarawd, their first son, later succeeded Rhodri in Gwynedd.

2.) their third son, is sometimes said to have been installed as King of Powys

«b»Known Children:«/b»

1.) Cadell Ap Rhodri, King of Seisyllwg;

2.) Merfyn ap Rhodri, King of Powys;

3.) Anarawd ap Rhodri, King of Gwynedd;

4.) Aidan ap Rhodri

5.) Tudwal ap Rhodri

6.) Meurig ap Rhodri

7.) Rhodri ap Rhodri

8.) Gwriad ap Rhodri

9.) Gwyddelig ap Rhodri

10.) Nest verch Rhodri, ('verch' is 'daughter of' in Welsh)

11.) Angharad verch Rhodri

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• Appointments / Titles: King of Dyfed
• FSID: M3TX-1ST
• Life Event: 880, Dyfed, Wales; King of Dyfed

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Hyfaidd ap Bleddri (born c.?830) was a king of Dyfed.

Triad 68-"Three Kings who Sprang from Villeins"-lists Hyfaidd among their number, meaning that his father Bleddri or Bledrig was held to have been a serf rather than a member of Dyfed's old royal family claiming descent from Aed Brosc. His mother was supposed to be Tangwystl, a daughter of the earlier King Owain.

Charles-Edwards argues that Hyfaidd was responsible for consolidating the lands that would later become Deheubarth, annexing Ystrad Tywi and possibly Ceredigion to Dyfed before his death. He was said to have oppressed the clerics of Meneva (modern St. David's) and exiled Bishop Nobis, earning him the enmity of Nobis's kinsman, the historian Asser.

Although later Welsh histories made Hywel Dda's inheritance of Dyfed a peaceful affair brought about by his marriage to Hyfaidd's granddaughter Elen and the extinction of Hyfaidd's male line, Asser's more contemporary Life of King Alfred reports that Dyfed or Brycheiniog both fell under such sustained attack from Hywel's uncle Anarawd and father Cadell that Kings Hyfaidd and Elise submitted to King Alfred of Wessex's overlordship in exchange for protection.

Hyfaidd's sons Llywarch and Rhodri reigned after him, but the kingdom was soon lost to Cadell's son Hywel who consolidated his realms as Deheubarth.

«b»Children«/b»
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1.) Llywarch

2.) Rhodri

Hyfaidd married ap Bleddri, Queen Maud in 866 in Dyfed, Wales. Maud was born in 822 in Wales; died in 867 in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LCRK-5PZ

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• Appointments / Titles: King of Dyfed
• FSID: M3TX-1ST
• Life Event: 880; King of Dyfed

Notes:

Hyfaidd ap Bleddri (born c.?830) was a king of Dyfed.

Triad 68-"Three Kings who Sprang from Villeins"-lists Hyfaidd among their number, meaning that his father Bleddri or Bledrig was held to have been a serf rather than a member of Dyfed's old royal family claiming descent from Aed Brosc. His mother was supposed to be Tangwystl, a daughter of the earlier King Owain.

Charles-Edwards argues that Hyfaidd was responsible for consolidating the lands that would later become Deheubarth, annexing Ystrad Tywi and possibly Ceredigion to Dyfed before his death. He was said to have oppressed the clerics of Meneva (modern St. David's) and exiled Bishop Nobis, earning him the enmity of Nobis's kinsman, the historian Asser.

Although later Welsh histories made Hywel Dda's inheritance of Dyfed a peaceful affair brought about by his marriage to Hyfaidd's granddaughter Elen and the extinction of Hyfaidd's male line, Asser's more contemporary Life of King Alfred reports that Dyfed or Brycheiniog both fell under such sustained attack from Hywel's uncle Anarawd and father Cadell that Kings Hyfaidd and Elise submitted to King Alfred of Wessex's overlordship in exchange for protection.

Hyfaidd's sons Llywarch and Rhodri reigned after him, but the kingdom was soon lost to Cadell's son Hywel who consolidated his realms as Deheubarth.

«b»Children«/b»
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1.) Llywarch

2.) Rhodri

Hyfaidd married verch Maredudd, N.N.. N.N. was born in UNKNOWN in Dinefwr Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died in DECEASED in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Queen of Dyfed
• FSID: GHZM-STF