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[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.

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