Cadell ap Rhodri in the context of "Hywel Dda"

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👉 Cadell ap Rhodri in the context of Hywel Dda

Hywel ap Cadell, commonly known as Hywel Dda, which translates to Howel the Good in English, was a Welsh king who ruled the southern Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth and eventually came to rule most of Wales. He became the sole king of Seisyllwg in 920 and shortly thereafter established Deheubarth, and proceeded to gain control over the entire country from Prestatyn to Pembroke. As a grandson of Rhodri Mawr through his father Cadell, Hywel was a member of the Dinefwr branch of the dynasty. He was recorded as King of the Britons in the Annales Cambriæ and the Annals of Ulster.

Hywel is highly esteemed among other medieval Welsh rulers. His name is particularly linked with the codification of traditional Welsh law, which were thenceforth known as the Laws of Hywel Dda. The latter part of his name (Dda, lit. "Good") refers to the fact that his laws were just and good. The historian Dafydd Jenkins sees in them compassion rather than punishment, plenty of common sense and recognition of the rights of women. Hywel Dda was a well-educated man even by modern standards, having a good knowledge of Welsh, Latin and English.

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Cadell ap Rhodri in the context of House of Aberffraw

The Second Dynasty of Gwynedd, also known as the House of Aberffraw and contemporaneously as the Merfynion, was a dynasty which ruled over Gwynedd with minor interruptions from the ninth to thirteenth centuries. The family was deposed in 1283 with the conquest of Wales by Edward I, and the execution of the last ruler of Gwynedd, Dafydd ap Gruffudd on October 3 of that year. The final politically active descendant of the main branch of the Second Dynasty of Gwynedd, Owain Lawgoch, was assassinated in July 1378.

Merfyn Frych was the first ruler of Gwynedd not to be a male-line descendant of Cunedda and thus was not a member of the First Dynasty of Gwynedd, though he was married to a woman of this line. Therefore, the dynasty was known contemporaneously as the MerỼynyaỼn, literally 'descendants of Merfyn'. However, this name would and did also apply to the Dynasty of Deheubarth, who descendants of Anarawd's brother Cadell ap Rhodri, so modern scholarship refers to the branch of the family associated which ruled Gwynedd as the Second Dynasty of Gwynedd.

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