Cadell ap Rhodri

Cadell ap Rhodri (* 854/861, † 909) was used as a partial successor to his father Rhodris the Great in the period 878-909 king of the medieval Celtic small kingdom Seisyllwg, which lay to the southwest of Wales. He conquered the Occupying the western neighboring Welsh Kingdom of Dyfed and became the progenitor of the so-called Dinefwr dynasty, which ruled the Kingdom ( principality ) of Deheubarth to the 13th century.

  • 2.1 King of Seisyllwg
  • 2.2 King of Dyfed
  • 2.3 progenitor of the Dinefwr dynasty

Origin

Origin

Cadell ap Rhodri comes from a very ancient Celtic royal family, which according to tradition, to the historically demonstrable Caswallon ( for the Romans: Cassivellaunus ) identifies who lived to the age 60 to 48 BC and the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in 54 BC there led the resistance against the second Britain campaign of Julius Caesar as high King of the Britons. His descendants ruled after the withdrawal of the Roman legions in 410 approximately four hundred years over the kingdom of Gwynedd.

For more ancestors

More direct ancestors of Anarawd ap Rhodri were among others in the male line:

  • Coel Hen ( Coel the Old ) after the departure of the Romans to 410-430 rulers in northern Britain was and had to defend themselves against incursions of the Picts and the Irish.
  • Gwriad King of the Isle of Man ( cl c. 800 ) is reminiscent of the the the " Crux Guriad " ( Cross of Gwriad ) in Maughold on the Isle of Man ( Isle of Man). He was with Esyllt ferch Cynan ( Esyllt, daughter of Cynan ) Princess of Gwynedd, a daughter of Cynan ap Rhodri Dindaethwy, King of Gwynedd ( 798-816 ) married, resulting in the later claim his son, Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad († 844 ), based on this kingdom.

Parents

The mother of Cadell ap Rhodri was Angharad ferch Meurig ( * ca 825 in Ceredigion in Wales). She was a daughter of Meurig ap Dyfnwallon, King of Seisyllwg ( cl c. 850) and the sister of Gwgon ap Meurig, the last king of Seisyllwg out of this house, who drowned under 871 not quite unclear circumstances, which the Kingdom of Seisyllwg her husband, Rhodri the Great fell.

  • Gwynedd, the Kingdom Rhodris
  • The area of Morgannwg

Life

King of Seisyllwg

Cadell ap Rhodri was around 854, according to others 861 born as one of the younger sons of Rhodri the Great, who had thanks to family policy and skill almost across Wales united in his hand. After his death, his empire disintegrated by division to his three sons back into small kingdoms. Cadell was the Kingdom Seisyllwg, which was located in the southwestern part of Wales at this division. The match today as the modern unitary authority Ceredigion, part of Carmathenshire and the Gower Peninsula. The name is derived from King Seisyll, who ruled the Kingdom of Ceredigion at the turn of the 7th to 8th century. It is possible but not certain that the establishment of the kingdom Seisyllwg back to him. Seisyllwg therefore not one of the oldest small kingdoms of Wales, as it only later from the merger of the core region - the Kingdom of Ceredigion - with the regions and Ystrad Tywi was cantref Mawr.

The Kingdom Seisyllwg was for centuries by the family of Cadells mother, Angharad ferch Meurig ( * ca 825 in Ceredigion, Wales), ruled that derives from King Ceredig, a son of Cunedda, who lived to 470 and as the eponymous ancestor of the Kingdom of Ceredigion applies. This family also includes the patron saint of the Holy David, (Welsh Dewi Sant ) ( † 589 ), who worked in the 6th century as a missionary, bishop and founder of monasteries and to the St David's Cathedral in the same city in the county of Pembrokeshire recalls at the westernmost point of Wales.

This dynasty whose standard sequence is preserved only incomplete, but ended with Gwgon ap Meurig, the brother of the mother of King Cadell, who drowned as the last king of Seisyllwg from the house of Ceredig in the year 871, after which Cadells father Rhodri the Great whose kingdom annexed.

King of Dyfed

Cadell was ambitious, however, teamed up with his brothers and location conquered the west of his lands Welsh Kingdom of Dyfed. The Last King of Dyfed, was defeated by Hyfaidd Llywarch ap Cadell around the year 904 and then ritually drowned. His brother Rhodri ap Hyfaidd was thereupon proclaimed king, but was overthrown and beheaded as early as next year. Cadell came therefore as King of Dyfed. To give a legal basis to the transfer of sovereignty married Cadell Hywel Dda his son ( Hywel the Good ) (* 880, † 950 ) with Elen, the daughter of King Llywarch, the order for the Kingdom " inherited ".

Progenitor of the Dinefwr dynasty

The Cadell ap Rhodri branch founded by the descendants of Rhodri the Great is called after the original built by King Rhodri Dinefwr Castle, later the residence of the kings of Deheubarth as " Dynefwr Dynasty ". They ruled the son of Cadells, Hywel Dda, created Kingdom of Deheubarth (Equivalent today about the Preserved Dyfed County ) until its conquest by the kings of England in the 13th century.

Marriage and issue

From the wife of the king of Gwynedd Anarawd neither the name nor the origin are known.

Children:

  • Idwal Foel ap Anarawd ( Idwal the Bald, son of Anarawd ) King of Gwynedd ( 916-942 )
  • Elisedd ap Anarawd ( * ca 885, † 942)

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