Prince Of Gwynedd And Deheubarth, Rhodri Mawr
Birth Name | Prince Of Gwynedd And Deheubarth, Rhodri Mawr 1a |
Gramps ID | I26303 |
Gender | male |
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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Death [E25957] | 878 |
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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 | Prince Of Gwynedd, Merfyn Frych [I26305] | 844 | ||
Mother | Queen Of Powys, Nesta [I26306] | |||
Prince Of Gwynedd And Deheubarth, Rhodri Mawr [I26303] | 878 |
Families
  |   | Family of Prince Of Gwynedd And Deheubarth, Rhodri Mawr and , Ankaret [F11828] | ||||||||||||
Unknown | Partner | , Ankaret [I26304] ( * + ... ) | ||||||||||||
Children |
Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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Ap Rhodri, Prince Of Deheubarth, Cadell [I27028] | 910 | |
Ap Rhodri, Merfyn [I28321] | 904 | |
Prince of Gwynedd, Anarawd ap Rhodri [I1978] | 857 | 916 |
Narrative
[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]
Pedigree
Ancestors
Source References
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