Merfyn ap Rhodri: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
Nimetapoeg (talk | contribs)
Nimetapoeg (talk | contribs)
removed Category:9th-century monarchs in Europe using HotCat (covered by sub-category)
Line 32: Line 32:
[[Category:900s deaths]]
[[Category:900s deaths]]
[[Category:Monarchs of Powys]]
[[Category:Monarchs of Powys]]
[[Category:9th-century monarchs in Europe]]
[[Category:House of Aberffraw]]
[[Category:House of Aberffraw]]
[[Category:Welsh princes]]
[[Category:Welsh princes]]

Revision as of 19:22, 13 May 2013

Merfyn ap Rhodri (died c. 900) was a late 9th-century Aberffraw prince of Gwynedd. He is sometimes credited with ruling Powys after the death of his father Rhodri the Great in AD 878. In the accounts where he is credited as a king, he is reported to have lost his realm to an invasion by his brother Cadell, King of Ceredigion.

The drowning of his son Haearnddur, or "Haardur", was reported by both the Chronicle of the Princes[1] and the Annals of Wales.[2] The first places it in the year 953; Phillimore's reconstruction of the latter's dating[3] would place it in 956.

See also

References

  1. ^ Middle Welsh: Oed Crist 953, y boddes Haearnddur fab Merfyn. Cambrian Archaeological Association. Archaeologia Cambrensis: "Chronicle of the Princes", p. 24. W. Pickering, 1864. Accessed 19 Feb 2013.
  2. ^ Medieval Latin: haardur .f(ilius). meuruc mersus est. Annals of Wales (B text), p. 10. Template:La-icon
  3. ^ Harleian MS. 3859. Op. cit. Phillimore, Egerton. Y Cymmrodor 9 (1888), pp. 141–83. Template:La-icon


Preceded by King of Powys
878–900
Succeeded by

Template:Persondata