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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 ...
The kingdom of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn—the King of Wales from 1055 to 1063—was shattered by a Saxon invasion in 1063 just prior to the Norman invasion of Wales, but the House of Aberffraw restored by Gruffudd ap Cynan slowly recovered and Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd was able to proclaim the Principality of Wales at the Aberdyfi gathering of ...
Gwent is a preserved county and former local government county in southeast Wales. A county of Gwent was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 ; it was named after the ancient Kingdom of Gwent .
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 ...
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]
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.
The latter part of the 10th century, and the whole of the 11th century, was an exceptionally tumultuous period for the Gwyneddwyr, Gwynedd's Welsh populace. [5] Deheubarth's ruler Maredudd ab Owain deposed Gwynedd's ruler Cadwallon ab Ieuaf of the House of Aberffraw in 986, annexing Gwynedd to his enlarged domain, which came to include most of Wales.
The Kingdom of Morgannwg was formed by the merging of the two Kingdoms of Morgannwg and Gwent. At times, the kingdoms were separate and independent. Ithel ab Athrwys ab Meurig (c. 650) [92] Owain, King of Morgannwg (c. 930) [98] Morgan Hen ab Owain (d. 974) [98] [99] Owain ap Morgan Hen (c. 974) [27]