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Birth:          ABT  857 of Gwynedd, Wales
Death:           916 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarawd_ap_Rhodri
Anarawd ap Rhodri (died c.?916) was a King of Gwynedd and referenced as "King of 
the Britons" in the Annales Cambriae.

Anarawd's father Rhodri the Great, by conquest and alleged inheritances, had become 
ruler of most of northern Wales. However, under Welsh law he was bound to divide his 
lands among his able-bodied children upon his death during a Mercian invasion around 
878. Anarawd, the eldest,[1] retained the principal estate at Aberffraw and the throne 
of Gwynedd. His brothers Cadell and Merfyn received large estates as well, sometimes 
said to include the kingdoms of Ceredigion and Powys, respectively. For this, one of 
the Welsh Triads records the brothers as the "Three Diademed Princes of the Isle of 
Britain".[2] (Rhodri's fourth son, Tudwal the Lame, was apparently too young for the 
initial division.)

The brothers are recorded as cooperating closely against the rulers of the remaining 
lesser kingdoms of Wales. Æthelred of Mercia invaded Gwynedd around 881 and the 
annals hailed his defeat at Cymryd in the Battle of the Conwy as Dial Rhodri: "God's 
vengeance for Rhodri". Tudwal was old enough to participate in this battle, but his 
disfigurement on the field left him unfit for rule in Welsh eyes.

While Cadell then turned on his brother Merfyn, creating the realm that would later 
empower Hywel the Good, Anarawd made an alliance with the Danish king in York in 
an attempt to guard himself against further Mercian attacks. After that alliance proved 
unsatisfactory, he came to an agreement with Alfred the Great of Wessex, visiting 
Alfred at his court. He received honors and gifts from the Saxons and King Alfred 
stood witness at his confirmation. According to Asser, Anarawd used his new Saxon 
allies to help in repelling a raid by his former Danish allies around 894 and to ravage 
Cadell's lands in Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi the next year. Around 902, an attack on 
Anglesey by the Danes of Dublin under Ingimundr was repulsed. Anarawd died c.?916, 
succeeded by his eldest son Idwal the Bald.

Parents
AP MERFYN Rhodri "Mawr" ("the Great") (ABT  820 -  878)
VERCH MEURIG Angharad (ABT  825 - )

Siblings
AP RHODRI Anarawd (ABT  857 -  916)
AP RHODRI Merfyn (ABT  859 -  900)
AP RHODRI Cadell (ABT  861 -  909)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
AP ANARAWD Idwal "Foel" (ABT  883 -  942)
AP ANARAWD Elise (ABT  885 -  942)

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