9th century in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the century 801 - 900 to Wales and its people.

Events

Approximate date of Nennius's Historia Brittonum

Merfyn ap Rhodri succeeds his father Rhodri the Great as king of Powys, reigning until his own death in c.900.

Battle of Buttington, a victory for a joint Anglo-Saxon and Welsh force against the Vikings

Births

Cadell ap Rhodri, King of Seisyllwg (died 909)^[1]

Deaths

Cadell ap Brochfael, king of Powys

Elfodd, bishop who persuaded the Welsh church to adopt the Roman method of determining the date of Easter.

Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd

Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys

Rhodri the Great, king of Gwynedd and most of Wales (born c.820)

References

↑ Lloyd, John Edward (1912). A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 325. Retrieved July 7, 2010.

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