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Owain ap Dyfnwal (died 1015) may have been an eleventh-century ruler of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. He seems to have been a son of Dyfnwal ab Owain, King of Strathclyde, and may well have succeeded Dyfnwal's son, Máel Coluim, King of Strathclyde. During Owain's reign, he would have faced a massive invasion by Æthelræd II, King of the English.
Owain Gwynedd was a member of the House of Aberffraw, the senior branch of the dynasty of Rhodri Mawr (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.
Dyfnwal ab Owain (died 975) was a tenth-century King of Strathclyde. [ note 2 ] He was a son of Owain ap Dyfnwal, King of Strathclyde , and seems to have been a member of the royal dynasty of Strathclyde.
The leader of the Scots at that time was Custantín mac Áeda, King of Alba. The record of Dyfnwal's death before 915, and the evidence of Owain ruling the Kingdom of Strathclyde in the later decades, suggests that he succeeded Dyfnwal as king, [43] and represented the realm in the alliance. The Cumbrians are not recorded to have received any ...
In Arthurian legend, Ywain / ɪ ˈ w eɪ n /, also known as Yvain and Owain among other spellings (Ewaine, Ivain, Ivan, [1] Iwain, Iwein, Uwain, Uwaine, Ywan, etc.), is a Knight of the Round Table. Tradition often portrays him as the son of King Urien of Gorre and of either the enchantress Modron or the sorceress Morgan le Fay.
Owain was the eldest son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and the grandson of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (Llywelyn the Great). He was imprisoned together with his father in Criccieth Castle in 1239 by his uncle Dafydd ap Llywelyn and accompanied his father to England two years later when Dafydd was forced to hand Gruffudd over to King Henry III of England.
The death of four teenage boys during a "nightmare" camping trip accident in November 2023 has been described by officials as "avoidable" ... Scene in Gwynedd, North Wales ... Superintendent Owain ...
Owain Danwyn (Old Welsh Dantguin, also spelled Ddanwyn, Ddantgwyn, etc., meaning "White Tooth"), is known from several medieval genealogies of the kings of Rhos.Most of these concur that he was the son of Einion Yrth ap Cunedda and grandson of Cunedda, founder of the Gwynedd dynasty in North Wales. [1]