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Gwent's existence as a separate kingdom again temporarily ended when Gruffydd ap Llywelyn won control of the area and MorgannĊµg in 1055, so extending his rule over the whole of Wales. In 1056 Gruffyd ap Llywelyn campaigned from the vicinity of Monmouth with an army of Welsh, Saxons and Danes to defeat Ralph , Earl of Hereford , ravaging the ...
A History of Wales. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140145816. Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6. Lloyd, John Edward (1912). A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. Longmans, Green, and Co. Turvey, Roger (2010). Twenty-One Welsh Princes. Conwy: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. ISBN ...
With Gwent increasingly overrun by the Norman conquest of Wales, the last native King of Morgannwyg and Glywysing was Iestyn ap Gwrgan (1081–1090), who was subsequently deposed by Robert Fitzhamon. Iestyn's sons became Lords of Afan , while Owain ap Caradog ap Gruffudd contented himself with Gwynllwg and founded the line of the Lords of ...
Owain ap Hywel (died c. 930 [1]) was a king of Glywysing and Gwent [2] in southeastern Wales. Owain's father Hywel was king of Glywysing until his death around AD 886. [ 1 ] Although the unified kingdom of Glywysing and Gwent became known as Morgannwg in honor of Owain's son Morgan the Old , Charles-Edwards argues that it is probable that the ...
The boundaries and names of Welsh kingdoms varied over time in the early medieval period. [8] In the seventh century, south-east Wales was a single kingdom called Gwent, but by the ninth century it had been divided between Glywysing (later Morgannwg and Glamorgan [8]) in the west and Gwent in the east, with the king of Glywysing having the higher status. [9]
Kingdom of Gwent, a post-Roman Welsh kingdom or principality which existed in various forms between about the 5th and 11th centuries, although the name continued in use later; Gwent (preserved county), a preserved county in Wales; Gwent (former administrative county), a Welsh local authority between 1974 and 1996 The operational area of Gwent ...
Meurig ab Arthfael [a] (or Mouric, ruled c. 848 – c. 874) was a king in south-east Wales. In the seventh century, Gwent was a single kingdom covering south-east Wales, but in the ninth century it was divided between Glywysing (now called Glamorgan), which had a higher status, and a smaller Gwent, covering the area which is now Monmouthshire.
Caradog ap Gruffydd (died 1081) was a Prince of Gwent in south-east Wales in the time of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and the Norman conquest, who reunified his family's inheritance of Morgannwg and made repeated attempts to reunite southern Wales by claiming the inheritance of the Kingdom of Deheubarth.