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Birth:          ABT  938 of Dynevor Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Death:           999 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynfyn_ap_Gwersytan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maredudd_ab_Owain
Maredudd ab Owain (died c.?999) was a 10th-century king in Wales of the High 
Middle Ages. A member of the House of Dinefwr, his patrimony was the kingdom of 
Deheubarth comprising the southern realms of Dyfed, Ceredigion, and Brycheiniog. 
Upon the death of his father King Owain around AD 988, he also inherited the 
kingdoms of Gwynedd and Powys, which he had conquered for his father. He was 
counted among the Kings of the Britons by the Chronicle of the Princes.

Maredudd was the younger son of King Owain of Deheubarth and the grandson of 
King Hywel the Good. Owain had inherited the kingdom through the early death of his 
brothers and Maredudd, too, came to the throne through the death of his elder brother 
Einion around 984. Around 986, Maredudd captured Gwynedd from its king Cadwallon 
ab Ieuaf. He may have controlled all Wales apart from Gwent and Morgannwg.

Maredudd is recorded as raiding Mercian settlements on the borders of Radnor and as 
paying a ransom of a silver penny a head to rescue some of his subjects who had 
been taken captive in Danish raids. Viking raids were a constant problem during 
Maredudd's reign. In 987, Godfrey Haroldson raided Anglesey, supposedly killing one 
thousand and carrying away another two thousand as captives; Maredudd was said to 
have then paid a huge ransom for the freedom of the hostages.

Following Maredudd's death around AD 999, the throne of Gwynedd was recovered for 
the line of Idwal Foel by Cynan ap Hywel. The throne of Deheubarth went to a man 
named Rhain who was accepted as Maredudd's son by its people but who—after the 
kingdom's conquest by Llywelyn ap Seisyll—was recorded by most Welsh histories as an 
Irish pretender and usurper. The kingdom was later restored to Maredudd's family, but 
through Hywel, the grandson of his brother Einion.

Children[edit]

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Angharad, who married (1) Llywelyn ap Seisyll, (2) Cynfyn ap Gwerstan, and had issue 
from both marriages
(possibly) Rhain the Irishman

Parents
AP HYWEL Owain (ABT  913 -  987)
VERCH LLEWELYN Angharad (ABT  914 - )

Siblings
AP OWAIN Einion (ABT  931 -  984)
AP OWAIN Maredydd (ABT  938 -  999)

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Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
VERCH MAREDYDD Angharad (ABT  982 - )

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