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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."
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844 - 878 (34 years)