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He addresses Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as ' lord of Aberffraw'; this must have been between 1173 and 1175. Fratricidal strife between the princes was the curse of Wales at that time, and the reference to Cain and Abel in the ode to Rhodri is very much to the point.
Owain died peacefully in 1170 and the mantle of Welsh leader passed to the aggressive warrior Rhys ap Gruffudd of Deheubarth. Owain’s long, successful reign saw him build the most comprehensive Welsh alliance yet seen, draw the king of France into his affairs, and provide Gwynedd with strength, stability, and security.
Owain added, moreover, that Thomas ought to grant the request, as no law compelled the king of Gwynedd to subjection to Canterbury, but simply his good will ((Haddan and Stubbs, i. 364–5). Thomas naturally refused this request, whereupon Owain seems to have provided a nominee for the see, who sought for consecration in Ireland from the Archbishop of Dublin.
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4 de abr. de 2024 · Early life. Owain Gwynedd was a member of the House of Aberffraw, the senior branch of the dynasty of Rhodri the Great.His father, Gruffudd ap Cynan, was a strong and long-lived ruler who had made the principality of Gwynedd the most influential in Wales during the sixty-two years of his reign, using the island of Anglesey as his power base.
Madog ab Owain Gwynedd was a legendary Welsh prince and explorer. He is said to have discovered America on a voyage in 1170, a claim that has been much disputed. For this achievement, he was the subject of narrative poems by Robert Southey (1805) and by T. Gwynn Jones (1918). The exact dates of Madog’s birth and death are uncertain, and his ...
The natural son of Owain Gwynedd by Pyfog, an Irishwoman. Hywel played a leading part in the occupation of Ceredigion by the house of Gwynedd. His father assigned southern Ceredigion to him in 1139. There was continual strife between him and his uncle Cadwaladr who held northern Ceredigion and Meirionydd. In 1143 Hywel drove his uncle out of ...
