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- Name Suffix: King
REFN: IND5509
19. OWAIN (son of No. 18). On the death of his father Gwynedd and Powysrebelled and were lost to the house of Hywel Dha in the battle of NantCarno. His brothers having died Owain was now sole ruler of Deheubarth.As a military leader he does not appear to have made a brilliant record.The Danes made him much trouble. In 959 he demolished two collegesbecause they received Saxon students. He was proud of his ancestry and hecompiled a record on his father's side extending back to Cunedda and onhis mother's side to Vorteporix, King of Dyfed, who flourished betweenA.D. 500 and 600. These pedigrees may be found in Harleian MS. 3859. Inthe Annales Cambriae his pedigree is the first one given and it extendsback to the beginning of the Christian era. The early generations may belegendary, but a very conservative authority, Sir John Rhys, writes of itas follows: "It is a genuinely old compilation, and however much we maydoubt or rather be in a state of indifference as to the more remotestages, yet if we bear in mind the legal structure and general complexionof the community in which it was produced it would be an excessivedisplay of the skeptical spirit to deny its accuracy for manygenerations." In 986, being old and feeble, he abdicated in favor of hisson Maredudd. He died in 987 or 988.
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913 - 0987 (74 years)
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