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Gwenwynwyn ab Owain Cyfeiliog (died c. 1216) was the last major ruler of mid Wales before the completion of the Norman English invasion. He was one of few native rulers to represent a real threat to the rule of Llywelyn the Great .
Apart from having left a permanent stamp on the nomenclature of central Wales, Gwenwynwyn, during the first years of his career, made the boldest bid for Welsh political leadership ever undertaken by a prince of the royal house of Powys.
Gwenwynwyn ab Owain Cyfeiliog (fallecida c. 1216) fue la última gobernante importante del centro de Gales antes de la finalización de la invasión inglesa normanda. Fue uno de los pocos gobernantes nativos que representó una amenaza real para el gobierno de Llywelyn el Grande.
Sus fuerzas, mandadas por su hijo Owain ap Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, intervinieron en la Guerra galesa de 1282–1283 con aquellos de John Le Strange y Hugh le Despenser y fueron sus soldados los que emboscaron y asesinaron al último Príncipe nativo de Gales cerca de Builth en 1282.
Gwenwynwyn took over from his father in southern Powys in 1195 and added the lordship of Arwystli to the south in 1197. He made an early bid for pre-eminence among the Welsh princes, launching a series of attacks upon marcher territories.
the elder son of Gwenwynwyn by Margaret Corbet of Caus. An infant when his father died, an exile in 1216, he was excluded from his inheritance until after the death of Llywelyn I, meanwhile spending his youth and early manhood in England dependent on royal bounty and his mother's dower.
29 de abr. de 2017 · By the time of the death of Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn in 1286 a sort of stability had been established in the territories of Powys. The imposition of Edward I's rule over much of Wales was one factor in that stability, as it meant that southern Powys was no longer menaced by Venedotian aggression.
