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Powys was united with Gwynedd when king Merfyn Frych of the Gwynedd dynasty married princess Nest ferch Cadell, daughter of king Cyngen of Powys, the last representative of the Gwertherion dynasty. [10] [11] With the death of Cyngen in 854 Rhodri Mawr became king of Powys, having inherited Gwynedd the year before. This formed the basis of ...
His father, Merfyn, had previously allied his family with the last rulers of Powys by marrying Princess Nest, the daughter or sister of King Cyngen. [ 36 ] [ note 1 ] In Welsh tradition, her family was of the Royal House of Gwertherion , and had been ruling Powys since the 5th century, through the marriage of an ancestor, Vortigern , the High ...
Merfyn was linked to the earlier dynasty through his mother Ethyllt ferch Cynan, the daughter of King Cynan Dindaethwy (d. 816), rather than through his father Gwriad ap Elidyr. [10] [note 1] As his father's origins are obscure, so is the basis of his claim to the throne. [10] Extremely little is known of Merfyn's father Gwriad.
The most ancient genealogical sources agree that Merfyn was the son of Essyllt, [86] heiress and cousin of the aforementioned Hywel ap Caradog, last of the ruling House of Cunedda in Gwynedd, and that Merfyn's male line went back to the Hen Ogledd to Llywarch Hen, [85] a first cousin of Urien and thus a direct descendant of Coel Hen.
Rhodri divided Wales into at least 3 provinces, his son Anarawd ap Rhodri was given the Kingdom of Gwynedd and founded the medieval dynasty the House of Aberffraw. Merfyn ap Rhodri was given the Kingdom of Powys. And another of Rhodri's sons, Cadell ap Rhodri was given the province of Deheubarth and began the House of Dinefwr.
Nest ferch Cadell was the daughter of Cadell ap Brochfael, an 8th-century King of Powys, the wife of Merfyn Frych, King of Gwynedd. [1] [2]On the death of her brother Cyngen ap Cadell in 855, authority over the Kingdom of Powys was claimed by Rhodri the Great, who had previously inherited the Kingdom of Gwynedd on the death of his father in 844. [3]
This is the family tree of the kings of the respective Welsh medieval kingdoms of Gwynedd, Deheubarth and Powys, and some of their more prominent relatives and heirs as the direct male line descendants of Cunedda Wledig of Gwynedd (401 – 1283), and Gwrtheyrn of Powys (c. 5th century – 1160), then also the separate Welsh kingdoms and petty kingdoms, and then eventually Powys Fadog until the ...
The kingdom of Powys covered the eastern part of central Wales. Regions included Builth and Gwerthrynion . It is important to note it was occupied by the Irish for a few years by Banadl (usually given as 441–447 AD), and was united with Gwynedd in 854 upon the death of Cyngen ap Cadell by his nephew Rhodri Mawr .