__NOTOC__ The Harleian genealogies are a collection of

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genealogies preserved in

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, Harley MS 3859. Part of the

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, the manuscript, which also contains the ''

Annales Cambriae 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 ...

'' (Recension A) and a version of the ''

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'', has been dated to ''c.'' 1100, although a date of c.1200 is also possible.Siddons, "Genealogies, Welsh," pp. 800-2; Remfry, P.M., 'Annales Cambriae. A Translation...', p. 4. Since the genealogies begin with the paternal and maternal pedigrees of

Owain ap Hywel Dda __NOTOC__ Owain ap Hywel (died ) was king of Deheubarth in south Wales and probably also controlled Powys. Owain was one of the three sons of King Hywel the Good. Upon Hywel's death in 948, Owain, Rhodri, and Edwin divided his lands among th ...

(d. 988), the material was probably compiled during his reign. The collection also traces the lineages of less prominent rulers of Wales and the

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. Some of the genealogies reappear in the

genealogies from Jesus College MS 20 The genealogies from Jesus College MS 20 are a medieval Welsh collection of genealogies preserved in a single manuscript, Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Jesus College, MS 20, folios 33r–41r. It presents the lineages of a number of medi ...

References

Secondary sources

* Siddons, Michael. "Genealogies, Welsh." In ''Celtic Culture. A Historical Encyclopedia'', ed. John T. Koch. 5 vols. Santa Barbara et al., 2006. pp. 800–2. *Watkin, M., "The Chronology of the Annales Cambriae and the Liber Landavensis on the basis of their Old French Graphical Phenomena", ''National Library of Wales Journal'' 11, no.3 (1960), 181–226. *Remfry, P. M., ''Annales Cambriae. A Translation of Harleian 3859; PRO E.164/1;

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, A 1; Exeter Cathedral Library MS. 3514 and MS Exchequer DB Neath, PRO E.164/1'' ().

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*. A copy of this text is reproduced on-line at
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', Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews. *Bartrum, Peter C. (tr.). ''Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts''. Cardiff: UWP, 1966. Edited versions of this translation appear at

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