Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales

Male - 916


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales (son of Mawr, King Roderick the Great Rhodri of All Wales and Ankaret, Queen of S. Wales); died in 916.

    of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Idwal, Prince of N. Wales died in 942.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Mawr, King Roderick the Great Rhodri of All Wales was born in 844 (son of Frych, Merfyn ("Mervin") and Nesta, Queen of Powys); died in 878.

    Notes:

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    The 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, Queen of S. Wales on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Ankaret, Queen of S. Wales (daughter of Meuric Prince of S. Wales).
    Children:
    1. 1. Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales died in 916.
    2. Mervyn, Prince of Powys died in 904.
    3. Cadell, Prince of South Wales died in 909.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Frych, Merfyn ("Mervin") was born about 780 (son of Gwiard King of Manaw and Eisyllt Queen of Wales); died in 844.

    Notes:

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    Known as "the Freckled." "The Earliest English Kings," D. P. Kirby (London: outledge, 1992), p. 212: "The advent to royal power in 825 of Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad, a Powys prince with possible Manx connections, whose father had married a daughter of
    Cynan ap Rhodri, king of Gwynedd, established the second dynasty of Gwynedd. Merfyn's marriage to Nest, sister of Cyngen ap
    Cadell, king of Powys, strenthened the Powysian associations of this second dynasty...." http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/merfynrd.html offers (2001):
    "Merfyn Frych, King of Gwynedd & Ynys Manaw (c.780-844)(Welsh-Merfyn, Latin-Marbinus, English-Mervin) Merfyn the Freckled was the son of King Guriat of Ynys Manaw, heir to the lost Kingdom of South Rheged. His mother was Esyllt ferch Cynan, the
    heiress of Gwynedd, and after the death of her uncle in AD 825, the throne was secured for Merfyn. He crossed from Ynys Manaw (Isle of Man), where he was almost certainly already King, to bring a new stability as well as a new dynasty to
    Gwynedd after many years of Civil War. He reigned for 19 years and, sadly, though Gwynedd gained from his rule, an absentee monarch left Manaw open to invasion. The Hiberno-Viking, Godred mac Fergus established himself there in 836 and the country ws
    never recovered. Merfyn died in AD 844."

    Merfyn married Nesta, Queen of Powys on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Nesta, Queen of Powys
    Children:
    1. 2. Mawr, King Roderick the Great Rhodri of All Wales was born in 844; died in 878.

  3. 6.  Meuric Prince of S. Wales (son of Dufnwal Prince of N. Wales); died in 830.

    Notes:

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    {Ancestors are from W.H.Turton, "The Plantagenet Ancestry"
    (Balt.:Gen.Pub.Co., 1968), p. 128.}

    Children:
    1. 3. Ankaret, Queen of S. Wales


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Gwiard King of Manaw was born about 750 (son of Elydyr Prince of Deheubarth).

    Notes:

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    http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/gwriaym.html offers (2001):
    "Guriat was the son of King Elidyr map Sandde. He inherited the crown of
    Man in the late 8th century when the local population was a vast mixture of
    the British and the Irish. His lasting memorial is the well-known Guriat
    Cross, originally erected near Maughold in the North of the Island.
    He married, Esyllt, daughter and heiress of King Cynan Dindaethwy of
    Gwynedd and was succeeded by their son, Merfyn Frych."

    married Eisyllt Queen of Wales on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Eisyllt Queen of Wales (daughter of Cynan King of Wales and Matilda, Dau. of Earl Of Flint).
    Children:
    1. 4. Frych, Merfyn ("Mervin") was born about 780; died in 844.

  3. 12.  Dufnwal Prince of N. Wales (son of Arthen).
    Children:
    1. 6. Meuric Prince of S. Wales died in 830.