Hywel ap Rhys, King of Glywyssing

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Hywel ap Rhys, King of Glywyssing

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Birthplace: Glamorgan, Wales (United Kingdom)
Death: circa 886 (52-69)
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Son of Rhys ab Arthfael, King of Glywyssing & Gwent
Father of Owain ap Hywel, King of Glywysing & Gwent; Arthfael ap Hywel; Ermithridd verch Hywel and Nest verch Hywel

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About Hywel ap Rhys, King of Glywyssing

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6516/TABLES%... (May 29, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6516/TABLES%... (May 9, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Rethinking the Gwent Pedigrees; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id24.html. (Steven Ferry, February 20, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Conquest of Glamorgan - Further Notes; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id226.html. (Steven Ferry, August 20, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Ancestry of Iestyn ap Gwrgan; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id227.html. (Steven Ferry, August 21, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Children of Rhodri Mawr; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id264.html. (Steven Ferry, April 6, 2021.)

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Hywel ap Rhys was a 9th-century king of part or all of Glywysing (ruled c. 840–886) in southern Wales. His sons Arthfael and Owain were probably responsible for the reünification of the realm of Morgannwg. A third son may have fallen assisting Rhodri the Great resist a Mercian invasion of Anglesey around 843.[2]

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