Iorwerth Hirflawdd was an ancestor of various medieval rulers in mid
Wales
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. His epithet means 'long trouble', but nothing is known of how he acquired it, nor otherwise of his life.
Nothing is known certainly of his life, but he must have lived in the mid 9th century.
Elystan Glodrydd
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(died c.1010), who is regarded as the founder of the fifth
Royal Tribe of Wales, was seventh in descent from him. He also appears near the head of a dynasty of
Arwystli
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, where he is named as son of Tegonwy ap Teon. Tegonwy also appears in the genealogy of
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn ( owl, Bledẏnt uab Kẏnỽẏn; AD 1075), sometimes spelled Blethyn, was an 11th-century list of rulers of Wales, Welsh king. Harold Godwinson and Tostig Godwinson installed him and his brother, Rhiwallon ap Cynf ...
, who was the ancestor of the later
Princes
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of
Powys
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. Bleddyn's claim to rule came from his father
Cynfyn
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Peibo Clafrog (alternatively, Pepiau Glavorawc, or in Latin, Pepianus Spumosu ...
, being a Powys nobleman, Interim King of Powys and maternal grandson of the former King Cadell.
References
*P. C. Bartum, ''Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts'' (University of Wales Press 1966), 95-7 104-5.
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9th-century Welsh people