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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