Nesta, Queen of Powys
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1. Nesta, Queen of Powys of married Frych, Merfyn ("Mervin") on Yes, date unknown. Merfyn (son of Gwiard King of Manaw and Eisyllt Queen of Wales) was born about 780; died in 844. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Mawr, King Roderick the Great Rhodri of All Wales
was born in 844; died in 878.
- 2. Mawr, King Roderick the Great Rhodri of All Wales
Generation: 2
2. Mawr, King Roderick the Great Rhodri of All Wales (1.of1) was born in 844; 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]
Children:
- 3. Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales
died in 916.
- 4. Mervyn, Prince of Powys
died in 904.
- 5. Cadell, Prince of South Wales
died in 909.
- 3. Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales
Generation: 3
3. Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales (2.Rhodri2, 1.of1) died in 916.
of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 6. Idwal, Prince of N. Wales
died in 942.
- 6. Idwal, Prince of N. Wales
4. Mervyn, Prince of Powys (2.Rhodri2, 1.of1) died in 904.
of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
5. Cadell, Prince of South Wales (2.Rhodri2, 1.of1) died in 909.
of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 9. Hywel Dha Prince
was born in 910; died in 950.
- 9. Hywel Dha Prince
Generation: 4
6. Idwal, Prince of N. Wales (3.of3, 2.Rhodri2, 1.of1) died in 942.
Family/Spouse: Avendreg, of Powys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 10. Meyric, Of North Wales
died in 986.
of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 10. Meyric, Of North Wales
7. Avendreg, of Powys (4.of3, 2.Rhodri2, 1.of1)
Family/Spouse: Idwal, Prince of N. Wales. of (son of Anarwd, Prince of N.Wales) died in 942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 10. Meyric, Of North Wales
died in 986.
- 10. Meyric, Of North Wales
8. Tryffyn, of Powys (4.of3, 2.Rhodri2, 1.of1)
of married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 12. Isabel
- 12. Isabel
9. Hywel Dha Prince (5.of3, 2.Rhodri2, 1.of1) was born in 910; died in 950.
Notes:
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Hywel "journeyed to Rome in 928 and is styled `king of all the Welsh.' His
position enabled him to undertake a reform of Welsh law, for which
posterity gratefully remembered him; the representative gathering which met
at Whitland to receive the new code is without a parallel in the early
annals of Wales, and the `law of Howel', amplified and re-edited by
generation after generation of Welsh legists, became the standard of tribal
and personal relations throughout the country. In its precision and
subtlety, it has been held to be the greatest intellectual achievement of
mediaeval Wales."{-Encycl.Brit.,`56,23:291-2} See extended discussion of
him and his times in "A History of Wales," John Davies (New York: Penguin
Books, 1993), Chapter Four.married Eleanor Heiress of Dyfed on Yes, date unknown. (daughter of Hyfaidd Prince of Dyfed) died after 950. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 13. Dha, Owen ap Hywel
died in 988.
married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 13. Dha, Owen ap Hywel