Cadwgan ab Owain (died 951) was a joint
king
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king.
*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
of
Glywysing
Glywysing was, from the sub-Roman period to the Early Middle Ages, a petty kingdom in south-east Wales. Its people were descended from the Iron Age tribe of the Silures, and frequently in union with Gwent, merging to form Morgannwg.
Name a ...
in
Wales of the High Middle Ages along with his brother
Gruffydd.
[Charles-Edwards, T. ''Wales and the Britons, 350–1064'', pp]
517
537
Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. Accessed 20 Feb 2013. His other brother
Morgan ruled in
Gwent.
His murder "by the Saxons" was recorded in the
Annals of Wales
The (Latin for ''Annals of Wales'') is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales. The earliest is a 12th-century presumed copy of a mid-10th-century original; later ed ...
. Phillimore's reconstruction of the dates places the entry in AD 951.
[ Harleian MS. 3859. Op. cit. Phillimore, Egerton. ''Y Cymmrodor'' 9 (1888), pp. 141–183. ] Afterwards, the kingdoms of Gwent and Glywysing were united under his brother Morgan as
Morgannwg
Morgannwg was a medieval Welsh kingdom formed via the merger of the kingdoms of the Kingdom of Glywysing and the Kingdom of Gwent.
Formation of Morgannwg
First under King Morgan the Generous (fl. ) until the end of the reign of his descendant I ...
.
References
Year of birth unknown
951 deaths
10th-century Welsh monarchs
Monarchs of Morgannwg
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