• General Notes

  [MARSHALL.FTW]
  
  SOURCE NOTES:
  Baldwin, Stewart, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table, posting to GEN-MEDIEVAL
  7/27/97, sbald@@auburn.campus.mci.net.
  
  Baldwin, Stewart, Rhoderic Mawr, King of Wales, posting to GEN-MEDIEVAL
  6/29/97, sbald@@auburn,campus,mci.net.
  
  Moncreiffe, Sir Ian of that Ilk, Royal Highness: Ancestors of the Royal Child.
  London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982.  NYPL ARF 83-3293.
  
  Tapsell, R. F., Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World.  New
  York: Facts on File Publications, 1983.
  
  Wurts, John S., Magna Charta: The Pedigrees of the Barons, Philadelphia, PA:
  Brookfield Publishing Co, 1942.
  RESEARCH NOTES:
  844-878: Prince of Gwynedd [Ref: Tapsell p177]
  872-878: Prince of Deheubarth [Ref: Tapsell p178]
  King of Wales [Ref: Moncreiffe p10]
  
  called Roderick the Great [Ref: Wurts p434]
  
  Uniting three kingdoms, he became King of all Wales.  Inherited North
  Wales from his father, Powys from his mother, and South Wales from his wife.
  [Ref: Wurts p434]
  
  united Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth [Ref: Moncreiffe p10]
  
  slain by the Angles in 878 [Ref: Moncreiffe p10]
  
  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 (1984) pp1-40, argued that neither Nest nor Angharad ever existed,  and
  that there were inventions of later genealogists who wanted to give Rhodri's
  family a line of descent from the earlier kings of Powys and Ceredigion. [Ref:
  Stewart Baldwin 6/29/97]
  SOURCE NOTES:
  parents: [Ref: Moncreiffe p10], father: [Ref: Stewart Baldwin 7/27/97, Tapsell
  p177]
  RESEARCH NOTES:
  date: which matches start of reign given in [Ref: Tapsell p177], note: 844
  [Ref: Wurts p434]
  SOURCE NOTES:
  date: [Ref: Moncreiffe p10, Tapsell p177], note: [Ref: Wurts p434]

Details of Rhodri Mawr's family with Ankaret