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Cunedda's genealogy, as many early Welsh Royal families, claimed descent from Afallach, son of Beli Mawr, the father of King Cassivellaunus. [7] [10] [11] Cassivellaunus was a pre-Roman historical figure who fought against Julius Caesar during his invasion of Britain in 54 BC, as part of the Gallic Wars, and whose name was featured on many occasions in Caesar's war diaries. [12]
This is a list of the rulers of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. Many of them were also acclaimed " King of the Britons " or " Prince of Wales ". Traditional arms of the House of Aberffraw, rulers of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, attributed to Llywelyn the Great (d. 1240).
The royal house is defined by the timeline of the Kings of Gwynedd as direct male line descendants of the founder of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, Cunedda Wledig c. 401, until the subsequent era of the founding of the palace (Welsh: Llys) at Aberffraw c. 873, after the male line expired in the 8th century, because Gwynedd was inherited by Merfyn ...
The King of Gwynedd anticipated this, and dispatched his sons Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Cynan into the woods with an army, catching Henry II unaware. [137] [138] In the melee which followed Henry II might have been slain had not Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford, rescued the king. Henry II retreated and made his way back to his main army ...
Einion Yrth ap Cunedda (c. 440 [1] – c. 500; reigned c. 470 – c. 480 [2]), also known as Einion Yrth (Welsh for "the Impetuous"), was a king of Gwynedd. He is claimed as an ancestor of the later rulers of North Wales. [3] One of the sons of Cunedda, [4] he travelled with his father to North Wales in the early 450s to expel Irish raiders ...
The Royal House of Dinefwr was a cadet branch of the Royal House of Gwynedd, founded by King Cadell ap Rhodri (reign 872–909), son of Rhodri the Great. [1] [2] Their ancestor, Cunedda Wledig, born in late Roman Britain, was a Sub-Roman warlord who founded the Kingdom of Gwynedd during the 5th century, following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of
The Welsh title [G]wledig, archaically Gwledic or Guletic and Latinised Guleticus, is defined as follows: "lord, king, prince, ruler; term applied to a number of early British rulers and princes who were prominent in the defence of Britain about the time of the Roman withdrawal; (possibly) commander of the native militia (in a Romano-British province)".
The only person known to have ruled all of Wales as a modern territory was Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1010–1063), a Prince of Gwynedd who became King of Wales from 1055 to 1063. However, some Welsh Princes sporadically claimed the medieval title of " Prince of Wales " between the 13th to 15th centuries.