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Gwent Archives (Welsh: Archifau Gwent) is the local records office and genealogy centre, based in Ebbw Vale, South Wales for the historic county of Monmouthshire. It covers the modern local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent , Caerphilly County Borough , Monmouthshire , Newport and Torfaen .
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 ...
Morgan ab Owain (died 1158) was a Welsh king and Lord of Caerleon.He was a son of Owain Wan and thus a grandson of Caradog ap Gruffydd, the last Welsh king of Gwent. [1]After Caradog ap Gruffydd was killed in 1081 in the Battle of Mynydd Carn against Rhys ap Tewdwr, his son Owain Wan ruled only over Gwynllŵg.
Morgan Hen ab Owain or Morgan the Old (died 974), first known as Morgan ab Owain of Gwent and also known as Moragn Hen Fawr, was the king of Morgannwg. [1] He ruled from AD 942 to 974. In 931, Morgan was one of the Welsh rulers who submitted to Athelstan 's overlordship, and attended him at court in Hereford.
The Gwent County History was a Welsh history project which created an encyclopaedic study of the historic county of Monmouthshire, known as Gwent between 1974 and 1996. The series was published by the University of Wales Press in five volumes between 2004 and 2013.
He had no living family. He was not famous. He lived alone. Yet on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. and watched him laid to rest.
Frederick James Hando MBE (23 March 1888 – 17 February 1970) was a Welsh writer, artist and schoolteacher from Newport.He chronicled the history, character and folklore of Monmouthshire, which he also called Gwent, in a series of nearly 800 newspaper articles and several books published between the 1920s and 1960s.
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