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While Rhys's suggestion is not implausible, his reference to Gwriad's father Gwrian contradicts the royal pedigree, which says that Gwriad's father was Elidir, so this may be a confusion of two different people named Gwriad. Gwriad's name does appear with northern origins in the
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suggested that Gwriad might well have taken refuge on the Isle of Man during the bloody dynastic struggle between Cynan and Hywel prior to Merfyn's accession to the throne and that the cross perhaps does refer to the refugee Gwriad, father of Merfyn. He goes on to note that the
135:(Rhodri the Great) and founder of his dynasty, which was sometimes called the Merfynion after him. Merfyn came to the throne in the aftermath of a bloody dynastic struggle between two rivals named Cynan and Hywel – generally identified with the sons of 394:
Precious little is known of Merfyn's reign. Thornton suggests that Merfyn was probably among the Welsh kings who were defeated by Ecgberht, king of Wessex, in the year 830, but it is unknown how this affected Merfyn's rule.
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in that year. In 823, Mercia laid waste to Powys and returned to Gwynedd to burn Deganwy to the ground. Gwynedd and Powys then gained a respite when Mercia's attention turned elsewhere and its fortunes waned.
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Rodri ma6r. M. Meruyn vrych. M. G6rhyat. M. Elidyr. M. sandef. M. Alcun. M. tegyth. M. Ceit. M. douc. M. Llewarch hen. M. Elidyr lydanwyn. M. Meircha6n. M. G6rgust. M. Keneu. M. Coil hen. mal y mae vchot.
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A destructive war for control of Gwynedd raged between 812 and 816, while in Powys a son of the king was killed by his brother "through treachery". In 818, there was a notable battle at
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says that Gwriad was the son of Elidyr, who bears the same name as his ancestor, the father of Llywarch Hen, Elidyr Lydanwyn. Supporting the veracity of the pedigree is an entry in the
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stating specifically that women were capable of transmitting legal title of kingship and it is not known whether Merfyn came to the throne through usurpation or prior arrangement.
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in 829. Though Mercia managed to throw off Ecgberht's rule in 830, it was thereafter beset by dynastic strife and never regarded its former dominance, either in Wales or eastern
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say Merfyn died around 844, the same year in which a battle occurred at Cetyll, but it is unclear whether those were two unrelated events or he fell in battle.
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against the contrary account that Nest was the mother and Ethyllt the wife. Thornton gives Nest as Cadell's sister.
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and dated to the 8th or 9th century raised the question of whether Gwriad's possible connection to "Manaw" was to
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mention a "Gwryat son of Gwryan in the North". Other locations for "Manaw" have been suggested, including
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from around 825 to 844, the first of its kings known not to have descended from the male line of King
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must have remained under Mercia's control through 821, as Coenwulf is recorded dying peacefully at
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Kirby, D. P. (1991), "The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the first three-quarters of the ninth century",
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Lloyd notes that some later copyists had invented a definite connection of the battle with
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says that claims of kingship through a maternal line were sometimes recognised under the
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The times leading up to Merfyn's reign were unsettled for both Gwynedd and neighbouring
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suffered the same fate the following year, and Mercia was conquered and occupied by
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Merfyn is mentioned as a king of the Britons in a copyist's addition to the
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Little is known of his reign and his primary notability is as the father of
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Phillimore, Egerton, ed. (1887), "Pedigrees from Jesus College MS. 20",
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and Merfyn, where no such connection was stated in the original source.
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made in Gwynedd during Merfyn's reign. He is mentioned in a passage as
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The view that Ethyllt was Merfyn's mother and Nest his wife is held by
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as "Mermin", with both mentions attributed to later additions to the
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A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
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was published with English annotation in 1892. It was discovered at
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Merfyn was linked to the earlier dynasty through his mother
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text using a key in order to read the message (a form of
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and it contains characters that must be translated from
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In the literary sources, Merfyn's name appears in the
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Thornton, David E. (2004), "Merfyn Frych (d. 844)",
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(eds.), 991: 268:(d. 816), rather than through his father 1325: 1144:"A Welsh Inscription in the Isle of Man" 802: 783: 155: 89: 1344: 1329:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 1138: 893: 659: 587:does not appear in other copies of the 151: 14: 2303: 1309: 1295: 1281: 1117: 1096: 1041: 1026: 961: 939: 923: 898:A Welsh Inscription in the Isle of Man 855:through Gwriad's paternal grandmother. 285:royal pedigree in Jesus College MS. 20 1393: 1224: 1196: 1172: 1154: 1006: 976: 813: 777: 762: 746: 692: 666:The Houses of Cunedda and Rhodri Mawr 495:There is nothing in what is known of 429:Cyfoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd ei Chwaer 160:A general map of Gwynedd showing the 1275:Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 1261: 1148:Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 908: 181:. 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Index

Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad
King of Gwynedd
House
Gwriad ap Elidyr
Ethyllt ferch Cynan

Kingdom of Gwynedd
Old Welsh
King of Gwynedd
Cunedda
Rhodri Mawr
Rhodri Molwynog
Annales Cambriae

cantrefi
Powys
Mercia
Wales
llys
Deganwy
Llanfaes
Anglesey
Coenwulf of Mercia
Rhufoniog
Snowdonia
Dee Estuary
Basingwerk
Beornwulf
East Anglians
Ludeca

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