Gwgon ap Meurig (died ) was a 9th-century

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and Ystrad Tywi (i.e.,

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) in southwest

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. Gwgon was the son of the former king

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or Morydd ap Llywarch Llwyd and inherited the realm on the death of his father. Gwgon's sister Angharad married

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Rhodri the Great of

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. Gwgon is recorded by the

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as drowning around 871. lat-med, Gugan rex ceredigean mersus est.

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(A text). The

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places his death in the entry for 870 and says he drowned crossing the

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in Gower while fighting Viking invaders.''Archaeologia Cambrensis'': "Chronicle of the Princes"
p. 15
Accessed 27 Feb 2013. Contrary to

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, rule was then reported to have passed to Angharad's son

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as a subordinate king to his father.

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