Rhodri Mawr King of Wales [60033]

   Cause of his death was slain in battle.

  General Notes:

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he Northmen pirates were held at bay by Rhodri Mawr, "founder of the princely houses of Gwynedd and Deheubarth (south Wales) and ruler of all Wales save Dyfed (the land of the Demetae), Brecon, Gwent and Glamorgan." {-Encycl.Brit.,`56,23:291} Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms ("English Ancestry," Oxford U. Press, 1961, pp.14-15) states: "Rhodri's male ancestry is traced...to Coel Hen Godebog, who lived, perhaps, early in the fifth century, while the line of Rhodri's grandmother, that of the older dynasty of North Wales, is taken back to its founder Cunedda, about A.D.450, and to Cunedda's father, grandfather and great-grandfather, the Roman forms of whose names (Eternus, Paternus and Tacitus) suggest that they were historical." "A History of Wales," John Davies (New York: Penguin Books, 1993) p. 81: "A chain of marriages begins around 800 when Gwriad, of the lineage of the Men of the North, married Esyllt of the line of Maelgwn Fawr; their son, Merfyn, became king of Gwynedd in 825 on the death of Esyllt's uncle, Hywel ap Rhodri, Marfyn married Nest of the house of Powys, and their son, Rhodri, married Angharad of the house of Seisyllwg (Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi). Rhodri became ruler of Gwynedd in 844 on the death of his father, of Powys in 855 on the death of his uncle, Cyngen, and of Seisyllwg in 871 on the death of his brother-in-law Gwgon; he died in 877, king of a realm extending from Anglesey to Gower. ...Rhodri's fame sprang from his success as a warrior."

Rhodri married Ankaret (Angharad) Queen of South Wales [60034] [MRIN: 551616649], daughter of Meurig Prince of South Wales [60035] and Unknown. (Ankaret (Angharad) Queen of South Wales [60034] was born about 825 in Ceredigion, Wales and died in 900.)