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Owain Gwynedd

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Owain ap Gruffudd (23 or 28 November 1170) was King of Gwynedd, North Wales, from 1137 until his death in 1170, succeeding his father Gruffudd ap Cynan. [1]

76 relations: Amlaíb mac Sitriuc, Anarawd ap Gruffydd, Angharad ferch Owain, Anglesey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Atlantic Ocean, Bangor Cathedral, Battle of Crogen, Battle of Crug Mawr, Battle of Ewloe, Bishop of Bangor, Brian Boru, Brut y Tywysogion, Cadfael, Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, Cadwallon ap Gruffydd, Cardigan, Ceredigion, Ceredigion, Cristin ferch Goronwy ab Owain, Cristin verch Goronwy, Cynan ab Iago, Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd, Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, Dead Man's Ransom, Deheubarth, Edith Pargeter, Einion ab Owain, Empress Matilda, Encyclopaedia of Wales, Excommunication, Gerald of Wales, Gruffudd ap Cynan, Gruffydd ap Rhys, Henry II of England, House of Aberffraw, House of Gwynedd, Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig, Idwal Foel, Iefan ab Owain Gwynedd, Iorwerth Drwyndwn, Ireland, King of Wales, Kingdom of Gwynedd, Kingdom of Powys, List of rulers of Gwynedd, List of rulers of Wales, Llywelyn the Great, Madoc, Madog ap Maredudd, ..., Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd, Merionethshire, Mold Castle, Normans, North America, Owain ab Edwin of Tegeingl, Owain ap Hywel Dda, Owain Cyfeiliog, Pentraeth, Powys, Powys Wenwynwyn, Prince of Wales, Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd, Rhodri the Great, Rhuddlan, Rhun ab Owain Gwynedd, Rhys ap Gruffydd, Sharon Kay Penman, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, Stephen, King of England, The Anarchy, The Summer of the Danes, Thomas Becket, Wales, Wales in the High Middle Ages, Welsh law. Expand index (26 more) »

Amlaíb mac Sitriuc

Amlaíb mac Sitriuc ("Amhlaeibh, son of Sitric") or Olaf Sigtryggsson was the son of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, and Sláine, the daughter of Brian Boru.

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Anarawd ap Gruffydd

Anarawd ap Gruffydd (died 1143) was a Prince of Deheubarth in Southwest Wales.

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Angharad ferch Owain

Angharad ferch Owain (1065–1162) was the wife of Gruffudd ap Cynan, a king of Gwynedd.

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Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island situated on the north coast of Wales with an area of.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bangor Cathedral

Bangor Cathedral (Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor) is an ancient place of Anglican worship situated in Bangor, Gwynedd, north-west Wales.

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Battle of Crogen

The Battle of Crogen took place in the Ceiriog Valley, Wales in 1165, between the vanguard of the forces of Henry II of England and an alliance of Welsh princes led by Owain Gwynedd.

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Battle of Crug Mawr

The Battle of Crug Mawr ('Great Barrow'), sometimes referred to as the Battle of Cardigan, took place in September or October 1136, as part of a struggle for control of Ceredigion which had been captured by the Normans.

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Battle of Ewloe

The Battle of Ewloe (also known as the Battle of Coleshill) was a battle fought in July 1157 between a large army led by Henry II of England and an army led by the Welsh prince Owain Gwynedd.

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Bishop of Bangor

The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor.

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Brian Boru

Brian Boru (Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig; Brian Bóruma; modern Brian Bóramha; c. 94123 April 1014) was an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill.

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Brut y Tywysogion

Brut y Tywysogion (Chronicle of the Princes), also known as Brut y Tywysogyon, is one of the most important primary sources for Welsh history.

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Cadfael

Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters".

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Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd

Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd (c. 1100 – 1172) was the third son of Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd, and brother of Owain Gwynedd.

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Cadwallon ap Gruffydd

Cadwallon ap Gruffydd (c. 1097 – 1132) was the eldest son of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd.

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Cardigan, Ceredigion

Cardigan (Aberteifi) is a town in the county of Ceredigionformerly Cardiganshirein Wales.

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Ceredigion

Ceredigion is a county in the Mid Wales area of Wales and previously was a minor kingdom.

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Cristin ferch Goronwy ab Owain

Christina verch Gronwy (Welsh "Cristin") was the daughter of Gronwy ap Owain ap Edwin, son of Owain ap Edwin.

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Cristin verch Goronwy

Cristin verch Goronwy or Christian verch Goronwy or Christiana ferch Goronwy was the second wife of Owain Gwynedd.

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Cynan ab Iago

Cynan ab Iago (c. 1014 c. 1063) was a Welsh prince of the House of Aberffraw sometimes credited with briefly reigning as King of Gwynedd.

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Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd

Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1174) was an illegitimate son of Owain Gwynedd, a Prince of the ancient Kingdom of Gwynedd, Wales.

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Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd

Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (– 1203) was Prince of Gwynedd from 1170 to 1195.

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Dead Man's Ransom

Dead Man's Ransom is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, first of four novels set in the disruptive year of 1141.

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Deheubarth

Deheubarth (lit. "Right-hand Part", thus "the South") was a regional name for the realms of south Wales, particularly as opposed to Gwynedd (Latin: Venedotia).

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Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.

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Einion ab Owain

Einion ab Owain (died) was a medieval Welsh prince of the House of Dinefwr.

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Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 110210 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was the claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy.

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Encyclopaedia of Wales

The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, published in January 2008, is a single-volume-publication encyclopaedia about Wales.

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Excommunication

Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular receiving of the sacraments.

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Gerald of Wales

Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Gymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon and historian.

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Gruffudd ap Cynan

Gruffudd ap Cynan (c. 1055 – 1137), sometimes written as Gruffydd ap Cynan, was King of Gwynedd from 1081 until his death in 1137.

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Gruffydd ap Rhys

Gruffydd ap Rhys (c. 1081 – 1137)http://www.mathematical.com/gruffyddgwenllian1085.html was King of Deheubarth, in Wales.

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Henry II of England

Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, King of England and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also partially controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany.

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House of Aberffraw

The House of Aberffraw is a historiographical and genealogical term historians use to illustrate the clear line of succession from Rhodri the Great of Wales through his eldest son Anarawd.

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House of Gwynedd

The House of Gwynedd is the name given to the royal house of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in Medieval Wales.

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Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd

Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1170), Wales Prince of Gwynedd in 1170, was a Welsh poet and military leader.

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Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig

Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig (died 1039) was a Prince of Gwynedd.

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Idwal Foel

Idwal Foel (Idwal the Bald; died c. 942) or Idwal ab Anarawd (Idwal son of Anarawd) was a 10th-century King of Gwynedd in Wales.

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Iefan ab Owain Gwynedd

Iefan ab Owain Gwynedd was a son of Owain Gwynedd (the king of Gwynedd between 1137–1170) and his second wife Cristina ferch Gronw.

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Iorwerth Drwyndwn

Iorwerth ab Owain Gwynedd (or Iorwerth Drwyndwn meaning "the flat-nosed"), also called Edward (c. 1130–1174), was the eldest legitimate son of Owain Gwynedd (the king of Gwynedd) and his first wife Gwladys (Gladys) ferch Llywarch.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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King of Wales

King of Wales was a very rarely used title, because Wales, much like Ireland, never achieved a degree of political unity, like that of England or Scotland during the Middle Ages.

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Kingdom of Gwynedd

The Principality or Kingdom of Gwynedd (Medieval Latin: Venedotia or Norwallia; Middle Welsh: Guynet) was one of several successor states to the Roman Empire that emerged in sub-Roman Britain in the 5th century during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.

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Kingdom of Powys

The Kingdom of Powys was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain.

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List of rulers of Gwynedd

This is a list of the rulers of Gwynedd.

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List of rulers of Wales

Before the Conquest of Wales was completed in 1282, Wales consisted of a number of independent kingdoms, the most important being Gwynedd, Powys, Deheubarth (originally Ceredigion, Seisyllwg and Dyfed), Gwent and Morgannwg.

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Llywelyn the Great

Llywelyn the Great (Llywelyn Fawr), full name Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, (c. 117311 April 1240) was a Prince of Gwynedd in north Wales and eventually de facto ruler over most of Wales.

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Madoc

Madoc, also spelled Madog, ab Owain Gwynedd was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492.

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Madog ap Maredudd

Madog ap Maredudd (Madawg mab Maredud, Madawc mab Maredut; died 1160) was the last Prince of the entire Kingdom of Powys, Wales and for a time held the Fitzalan Lordship of Oswestry.

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Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd

Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd was a prince of part of Gwynedd.

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Merionethshire

Merionethshire or Merioneth (Meirionnydd or Sir Feirionnydd) is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, a vice county and a former administrative county.

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Mold Castle

Mold Castle (Castell yr Wyddgrug), on Bailey Hill in the town of Mold, Flintshire, Northeast Wales, is a motte-and-bailey castle erected around 1072, probably by the Norman Robert de Montalt under instructions from Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Owain ab Edwin of Tegeingl

Owain ab Edwin of Tegeingl or Owain Fradwr (Welsh: "the Traitor"; ? – 1105) was lord of the cantref of Tegeingl in north-east Wales at the end of the 11th century.

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Owain ap Hywel Dda

Owain ap Hywel (died) was king of Deheubarth in south Wales and probably also controlled Powys.

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Owain Cyfeiliog

Owain ap Gruffydd (c. 1130–1197) was a prince of the southern part of Powys and a poet.

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Pentraeth

Pentraeth is a village and community on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at.

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Powys

Powys is a principal area, a county and one of the preserved counties of Wales.

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Powys Wenwynwyn

Powys Wenwynwyn or Powys Cyfeiliog was a Welsh kingdom which existed during the high middle ages.

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Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) was a title granted to princes born in Wales from the 12th century onwards; the term replaced the use of the word king.

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Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd

Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd (1147 – 1195) was prince of part of Gwynedd, one of the kingdoms of medieval Wales.

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Rhodri the Great

Rhodri ap Merfyn (820–878), later known as Rhodri the Great (Rhodri Mawr), succeeded his father, Merfyn Frych, as King of Gwynedd in 844.

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Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan (approximately "RHITH-lan") is a town, community and electoral ward in the county of Denbighshire within the historic boundaries of Flintshire, on the north coast of Wales.

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Rhun ab Owain Gwynedd

Rhun ab Owain Gwynedd was the eldest child of Owain Gwynedd (the king of Gwynedd between 1137-1170).

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Rhys ap Gruffydd

Rhys ap Gruffydd or ap Gruffudd (often anglicised to "Griffith") (1132 – 28 April 1197) was the ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south Wales from 1155 to 1197.

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Sharon Kay Penman

Sharon Kay Penman (born August 13, 1945) is an American historical novelist, published in the UK as Sharon Penman.

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Sigtrygg Silkbeard

Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson (also Sihtric, SitricÓ Corráin, p. 123 and Sitrick in Irish texts; or SigtrygWinn, p. 46 and SigtryggrMac Manus, p. 278 in Scandinavian texts) was a Hiberno-Norse king of Dublin (possibly AD 989–994; restored or began 995–1000; restored 1000 and abdicated 1036) of the Uí Ímair dynasty.

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Stephen, King of England

Stephen (Étienne; – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 1135 to his death, as well as Count of Boulogne from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 until 1144.

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The Anarchy

The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1135 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order.

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The Summer of the Danes

The Summer of the Danes is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in 1144.

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Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket (also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London, and later Thomas à Becket; (21 December c. 1119 (or 1120) – 29 December 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wales in the High Middle Ages

Wales in the High Middle Ages covers the 11th to 13th centuries in Welsh history.

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Welsh law

Welsh law is the primary and secondary legislation generated by the National Assembly for Wales, according to devolved authority granted in the Government of Wales Act 2006.

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Owain Gwynedd ap Gruffydd, Owain I of Gwynedd, Owain I of Wales.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owain_Gwynedd

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