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9th-century Aberffraw prince of Gwynedd
Merfyn ap Rhodri
(died
c.
900
) was a late 9th-century
Aberffraw
prince of
Gwynedd
. He is sometimes credited with ruling
Powys
after the death of his father
Rhodri the Great
in AD 878. In the accounts where he is credited as a king, he is reported to have lost his realm to an invasion by his brother
Cadell
,
King of Ceredigion
. Merfyn's death may be connected to the incursion into Anglesey by the Viking
Ingimundr
in the first decade of the 10th century.
The drowning of his son Haearnddur, or "Haardur", was reported by both the
Chronicle of the Princes
[1]
and the
Annals of Wales
.
[2]
The first places it in the year 953; Phillimore's reconstruction of the latter's dating
[3]
would place it in 956.
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