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11th Century In Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the century 1001–1100 to Wales and its people. Events 1005 * Aeddan ap Blegywryd succeeds Cynan ab Hywel as Prince of Gwynedd. 1018 * Llywelyn ap Seisyll defeats Aeddan ap Blegywryd in battle; Aeddan and his four sons are killed. Through marriage to Angharad ferch Maredudd ab Owain. 1022 * Llywelyn ap Seisyll defeats the Irish pretender Rhain at Abergwili. 1045 * Gruffydd ap Rhydderch expels Gruffydd ap Llywelyn from Deheubarth. 1055 *24 October - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn defeats Ralph the Timid and sacks Hereford. He is now ruler of all Wales. 1056 *10 February - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn defeats an English army at Glasbury. 1062 * Harold Godwinson makes a surprise attack on Gruffydd ap Llywelyn at Rhuddlan; Gruffydd escapes. 1063 * Tostig leads an army into north Wales. 1067 * Chepstow Castle is founded by William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford. 1070 *Battle of Mechain between the sons of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Century In Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the century 901–1000 to Wales and its people. Events 905 *The kingdom of Dyfed passes to Hywel Dda as a result of his marriage to Elen, the daughter of Llywarch ap Hyfaidd, following the death of Llywarch's heir, Rhydderch. 920 *Hywel Dda unites the kingdoms of Dyfed and Seisyllwg to create Deheubarth. 928 *King Æthelstan of England receives the submission of Welsh kings, including Hywel Dda, and sets the border of Wales at the River Wye. 969 * Iago ab Idwal imprisons his brother Ieuaf ap Idwal. 985 * Cadwallon ab Ieuaf becomes King of Gwynedd. 986 *Maredudd ab Owain becomes King of Gwynedd, after disposing of its previous ruler, Cadwallon ab Ieuaf. 987 *Maredudd ab Owain becomes King of Deheubarth. 992 *Maredudd ab Owain attacks Morgannwg. 999 * Cynan ap Hywel becomes King of Gwynedd. *Vikings sack St David's and murder the bishop, Morgeneu. Births *''date unknown'' - Llywelyn ap Seisyll, King of Gwynedd and De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhuddlan
Rhuddlan () is a town, community, and electoral ward in the county of Denbighshire, Wales, in the historic county of Flintshire. Its associated urban zone is mainly on the right bank of the Clwyd; it is directly south of seafront town Rhyl. It gave its name to the Welsh district of Rhuddlan from 1974 to 1996. As of the 2001 census, the population was 4,296 decreasing to 3,709 in the 2011 census. Etymology The name of the town is a combination of the Welsh words ' "red" + ' "riverbank". History In AD 921, the Anglo-Saxon king, Edward the Elder, founded a burh named ''Cledematha'' at Rhuddlan. In the following century, before the Norman Conquest and subsequent Norman occupation of lower Gwynedd, the Perfeddwlad, Rhuddlan was the site of a Welsh cantref and served as the seat of government and capital of Gwynedd for the Welsh king Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (ruled 1055 – 1063), whose family may have been the traditional Welsh lords of Rhuddlan for generations. Following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard De Neufmarché
Bernard de Neufmarché (), also Bernard of Newmarket or Bernard of Newmarch was the first of the Norman conquerors of Wales. He was a minor Norman lord who rose to power in the Welsh Marches before successfully undertaking the invasion and conquest of the Kingdom of Brycheiniog between 1088 and 1095. Out of the ruins of the Welsh kingdom he created the Anglo-Norman lordship of Brecon. His toponymic byname comes from Neuf-Marché in Normandy. It was Latinised as ''de Novo Mercato'' (literally: "from the new market"), and has sometimes been Anglicised as "Newmarket" or "Newmarch". Coming to England Because Bernard's family had attachments to the monastery of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche, the monkish chronicler Orderic Vitalis of that foundation had special knowledge of him and his family, though this still does not reduce the general obscurity of his origins or his life when compared to the richer Marcher Lords, like the great Roger of Montgomery. Bernard was the son of the minor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
