Gruffydd ab Owain (died ) was a joint
king
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*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 and ...
in
Wales
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along with his brother
Cadwgan Cadwgan is a Welsh people, Welsh given name, meaning "battle glory" (from ''cad'' "battle" and ''gwogawn'' "glory"). The name occurs in the Mabinogion as the son of Iddon. The name Cadogan (disambiguation), Cadogan is derived from it.
Bearers of t ...
. His other brother
Morgan ruled in
Gwent.
His death 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 ...
''.
[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 ...
( A text). Phillimore's reconstruction of the dates places the entry in AD 935.
[ Harleian MS. 3859. Op. cit. Phillimore, Egerton. ''Y Cymmrodor'' 9 (1888), pp. 141–83. ] Afterwards, his brother Cadwgan seems to have ruled Glywysing alone until his death .
References
Year of birth unknown
935 deaths
10th-century Welsh monarchs
Monarchs of Morgannwg
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