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ROYAL ANCESTORS,CHART 612; CLIENT PED
TITL Royal Genealogies DB AUTH Denis R. Reid
PUBL 149 Kimrose Lane, Broadview Heights, OH 44147-1258 216/237-5364
http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html ah189@@cleveland.freenet.edu
MEDI Electronic
TEXT Prince of So. Wales 916-950
ALIA Hywel 'Dda' ap Cadell /Prince of Wales/
_FA1 PLAC Acceded: 942. Only ruler of ancient Wales called "The Good".
_FA2 PLAC Under his & his grandfather Rhodri the Great's leadership, a Welsh state emerged
_FA3 PLAC Reign was remarkable for its peacefulness.
_FA4 PLAC Prince of Wales.
_FA5 PLAC On a visit to Rome in 928, became a student of jurisprudence.
_FA6 PLAC Developed a code of laws that was the basis for all Welsh law for centuries.
TITL The Reckoning AUTH Sharon Kay Penman PUBL Ballantine Books , New York, 1991
MEDI Book
TITL Falls the Shadow AUTH Sharon Kay Penman PUBL Ballantine Books , New York, 1988
Library of J.H. Garner MEDI Book
TITL Here Be Dragons AUTH Sharon Kay Penman PUBL Ballantine Books , New York 1985
Library of J.H. Garner MEDI Book
_FA7 PLAC Three parts of his code are still found in English Common Law.
_FA8 PLAC Called "the head and glory of all the Britons" for his wisdom & justice.
TITL soc.genealogy.medieval
MEDI BookREF: MFHOWELLJR@@aol.com (HOWELL-L@@rootsweb.com, Howell readers group): Present Wels h, English and American Howells derive from the old Welsh family of Abernent in Carmarthenshi re, the linage and name deriving from Hywel Dda the King of Wales from 943 to 950. He was gra ndson of Rhodri Mawr, the Great, who united almost all of ancient Wales under his supremacy . He (Hywel Dda I presume) was married to Ellen, daughter of the last of the Kings of Dyfed . The reign of Howel Dda was remarkable for its peacefulness, and is the only ruler of ancien t Wales designated "The Good".
He was also the only King ever to issue his own coinage. On a visit to Rome in 928, becam e a student of jurisprudence, and the code of laws he composed is his lasting claim to fame . Three parts of his code are still found in English Common Law. He was such a wise and jus t man that he was called "the head and glory of all the Britons." There is a place today in W ales called Crickhowell, which is considered to be either his home and/or pob.