Prince of Wales, Rhodri Mawr Ap Merfyn the Great
Birth Name | Prince of Wales, Rhodri Mawr Ap Merfyn the Great 1a 2a |
Also Known As | King of Gwynedd, Rhodri Mawr the Great 2b |
Gramps ID | I4133 |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | 69 years |
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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Birth [E5018] | 809 | of Caer Seiont, Carnarvonshire, Wales |
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Death [E5019] | 878 | Anglesey, Wales |
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Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | King of Gwynedd, Merfyn Ap Gwriad the Freckled [I4135] | 784 | about 844 | |
Mother | verch Cadell, Nesta [I4134] | 780 | ||
Prince of Wales, Rhodri Mawr Ap Merfyn the Great [I4133] | 809 | 878 |
Families
  |   | Family of Prince of Wales, Rhodri Mawr Ap Merfyn the Great and verch Meurig, Angharad [F1519] | ||||||||||||
Unknown | Partner | verch Meurig, Angharad [I4132] ( * 825 + ... ) | ||||||||||||
Children |
Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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Prince of Gwynedd, Anarawd ap Rhodri [I1978] | 857 | 916 |
King of Powys, Merfyn ap Rhodri Mawr [I1971] | 859 | 900 |
King of South Wales, Cadell ap Rhodri Mawr [I4131] | 861 | 910 |
Narrative
[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
Battle wounds.
Acceded: 844. King of Gwynedd 844-878.
Ethelwulf of Wessex & Burghred of Mercia entered Wales.
They convinced Rhodri to halt Viking incursions into England
via Wales.
Rhodri defeated the Viking invasion. The Vikings never
seriously invaded Wales again.
Rhodri Mawr, king of Gwynedd, died in 878. Although he was an
important Welsh king, it is not really appropriate to call him
the "first King of Wales", for there were large parts of Wales
over which he did not rule. Most sources give the name of
Rhodri's wife as Angharad, heiress of Ceredigion, and give his
mother as Nest, heiress of Powys, but Patrick Sims-Williams [in
the article "Historical Need and Literary Narrative: a Caveat
from Ninth-Century Wales", Welsh History Review, vol. 17
(1994), pp. 1-40] has recently argued (conclusively, in my
opinion) that neither Nest nor Angharad ever existed, and that
they were inventions of later genealogists who wanted to give
Rhodri's family a line of descent from the earlier kings of
Powys and Ceredigion.
Narrative
Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID I4133:
Line ignored as not understood Line 98984: 2 SOUR @S085410@
Skipped subordinate line Line 98985: 3 DATA
Skipped subordinate line Line 98986: 4 TEXT Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000
Attributes
Type | Value | Notes | Sources |
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REFN | 5775 |
Pedigree
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King of Gwynedd, Merfyn Ap Gwriad the Freckled [I4135]
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verch Cadell, Nesta [I4134]
- Prince of Wales, Rhodri Mawr Ap Merfyn the Great
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verch Cadell, Nesta [I4134]
Ancestors
Source References
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Royal Genealogies DB
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SUSANNA KEENE.FTW
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