Edwyn ap Gwriad was a
Welsh king
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
of
Gwent from 1015 to 1045. He was imprisoned and blinded by his successor,
Meurig ap Hywel, the son of
Hywel ab Owain.
The Anglo-Saxon name "Edwyn" along with Gwent's proximity to the English
marches
In medieval Europe, a march or mark was, in broad terms, any kind of borderland, as opposed to a national "heartland". More specifically, a march was a border between realms or a neutral buffer zone under joint control of two states in which diff ...
seems to imply some degree of relationship with early English rulers of the time.
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Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Monarchs of Gwent
11th-century Welsh monarchs
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