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Known as "the Freckled." "The Earliest English Kings," D. P. Kirby (London: outledge, 1992), p. 212: "The advent to royal power in 825 of Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad, a Powys prince with possible Manx connections, whose father had married a daughter of
Cynan ap Rhodri, king of Gwynedd, established the second dynasty of Gwynedd. Merfyn's marriage to Nest, sister of Cyngen ap
Cadell, king of Powys, strenthened the Powysian associations of this second dynasty...." http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/merfynrd.html offers (2001):
"Merfyn Frych, King of Gwynedd & Ynys Manaw (c.780-844)(Welsh-Merfyn, Latin-Marbinus, English-Mervin) Merfyn the Freckled was the son of King Guriat of Ynys Manaw, heir to the lost Kingdom of South Rheged. His mother was Esyllt ferch Cynan, the
heiress of Gwynedd, and after the death of her uncle in AD 825, the throne was secured for Merfyn. He crossed from Ynys Manaw (Isle of Man), where he was almost certainly already King, to bring a new stability as well as a new dynasty to
Gwynedd after many years of Civil War. He reigned for 19 years and, sadly, though Gwynedd gained from his rule, an absentee monarch left Manaw open to invasion. The Hiberno-Viking, Godred mac Fergus established himself there in 836 and the country ws
never recovered. Merfyn died in AD 844."

Merfyn married Nesta, Queen of Powys on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Northmen pirates were held at bay by Rhodri Mawr, "founder of the
princely houses of Gwynedd and Deheubarth (south Wales) and ruler of all
Wales save Dyfed (the land of the Demetae), Brecon, Gwent and
Glamorgan." {-Encycl.Brit.,`56,23:291} Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of
Arms ("English Ancestry," Oxford U. Press, 1961, pp.14-15) states:
"Rhodri's male ancestry is traced...to Coel Hen Godebog, who lived,
perhaps, early in the fifth century, while the line of Rhodri's
grandmother, that of the older dynasty of North Wales, is taken back to its
founder Cunedda, about A.D.450, and to Cunedda's father, grandfather and
great-grandfather, the Roman forms of whose names (Eternus, Paternus and
Tacitus) suggest that they were historical." "A History of Wales," John
Davies (New York: Penguin Books, 1993) p. 81: "A chain of marriages begins
around 800 when Gwriad, of the lineage of the Men of the North, married Esyllt
of the line of Maelgwn Fawr; their son, Merfyn, became king of Gwynedd in 825
on the death of Esyllt's uncle, Hywel ap Rhodri, Marfyn married Nest of the
house of Powys, and their son, Rhodri, married Angharad of the house of
Seisyllwg (Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi). Rhodri became ruler of Gwynedd in
844 on the death of his father, of Powys in 855 on the death of his uncle,
Cyngen, and of Seisyllwg in 871 on the death of his brother-in-law Gwgon; he
died in 877, king of a realm extending from Anglesey to Gower. ...Rhodri's
fame sprang from his success as a warrior."

Rhodri married Ankaret, Queen of S. Wales on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Avendreg, of Powys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Idwal, Prince of N. Wales. of (son of Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales) died in 942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hywel "journeyed to Rome in 928 and is styled `king of all the Welsh.' His
position enabled him to undertake a reform of Welsh law, for which
posterity gratefully remembered him; the representative gathering which met
at Whitland to receive the new code is without a parallel in the early
annals of Wales, and the `law of Howel', amplified and re-edited by
generation after generation of Welsh legists, became the standard of tribal
and personal relations throughout the country. In its precision and
subtlety, it has been held to be the greatest intellectual achievement of
mediaeval Wales."{-Encycl.Brit.,`56,23:291-2} See extended discussion of
him and his times in "A History of Wales," John Davies (New York: Penguin
Books, 1993), Chapter Four.

married Eleanor Heiress of Dyfed on Yes, date unknown. (daughter of Hyfaidd Prince of Dyfed) died after 950. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]