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Name Suffix:<NSFX> Prince Of The Welsh, Prince Of Gwynedd
From: Gendex, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/D0043/G0000077.html#I2586

"Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (176:5), (239:6).
Bartrum's "Welsh Genealogies".
Often referred to as Owain Gwynedd or as Owain Fawr (The Great). In 1136, Owain and his brothers wrested control of Ceridigion from RICHARD DE CLARE (RIN 1079). In 1137, upon the death of his father, he became king of Gwynedd. The years of the Reign of King Stephen in England (1135-1154) were sometimes referred to as "the anarchy". Owain took advantage of these years to greatly expand the kingdom of Gwynedd until it reached almost to the town of Chester. The very capable King HENRY II (RIN 761) ascended the English throne in in 1154. This ended the anarchy and HENRY directed many of his vast resources towards subjugating Wales. In 1156, the ruler of Powys, MADOG AP MAREDUDD (RIN 2589), found it necessary to yield to HENRY and in 1157 assisted him in his campaigns against Owain. This was partly due to the fact that Owain had territorial ambitions in parts of Powys. After the campaign of 1157 Owain also yielded to HENRY, acknowledging him as his soverign. In 1165 Owain succeeded in forming an alliance with the others Welsh rulers, RHYS AP GRUFFUDD (RIN 1881) of Dheubarth and the rulers of Powys. HENRY was, for several years beginning in 1163, hampered greatly in everything he did due to his conflict with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. This, along with a victory over HENRY's troops in 1165 in the Berwyn Mountains, allowed the Welsh to regain much of the territory they had lost to the Normans. In 1168 Owain even offered to assist King LOUIS VII (RIN 1530) against Henry - an indication that he aspired to total soverignty for his people. Unfortunately, when Owain died in 1170, a struggle for succession followed. Paul Reed summarized 0wains family as folloes: . The sons and grandsons of Owain Gwynedd. . . Owain had matches with at least nine women. Christina/Cristin f. Gronwy was considered a legitimate wife. The following children are given in the _Handbook of British Chronology_, after which are additional children listed in Bartum's Welsh Genealogies [Gruffudd ap Cynan, various charts]:
(1) Rhun, d. 1146.
(2) Hywel, killed 1170 [son by Ffynnod Wyddeles ("an Irish woman");
issue:
Caswallon].
(3) Iorwerth Drwyndwn [flatnose], son by the first 'wife' Gwladus f.
Llywarch
(4) Maelgwn [son by Gwladus], who received Anglesey as his portion.
(5) David ap Owain [son by his second wife Christina] eventually won
Gwynedd from his other male relatives in 1175, was dispossessed in
1194, and died in exile in 1203. David had married, 1174, Emma, natural
daughter of Geoffrey of Anjou.
(6) RHODRI ap Owain [son by Christiana], married (1) a daughter of Rhys
ap Gruffudd of Deheubarth, and (2) the elder daughter of the King of Man.
Rhodri died in 1195.
(7) Cynan ap Owain [mother not known], died in 1174. He had sons
Gruffudd ap Cynan [d. 1200] and Maredudd [d. 1212].
(a) Angharad [daughter by Cristin], married Gruffudd Maelor.
(b) Gwenllian [Gwenllian I, daughter by Gwladus], married Owain
Cyneiliog.
[other children listed by Bartum, order not known:]
(8) Rhirid, married a daughter of Iarll Desmond [Desmond, in Ireland?]
(9) Iago [son by Mofudd f. Elfan ap Sandde].
(10) Philip [son by Mofudd f. Elfan ap Sandde].
(11) Madog.
(12) Einion.
(13) Cynwrig [I].
(14) Cynwrig [II]
(15) Cadell.
(c) Gwenllian [II]. "