• General Notes

  [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.

Details of Rhodri Mawr the Great's family with Angharad verch Meurig