Person:Merfyn Frych (1)
Merfyn "Frych" ap Gwriad
b.Abt 780 Gwynedd, Wales
d.843 Swansea, Wales
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 795
  1. Cadrod ap Gwriad _____Abt 768 -
  2. Merfyn "Frych" ap GwriadAbt 780 - 843
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 819
  1. Rhodri "Mawr" ap Merfyn _____788 - 878
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Facts and Events
Name Merfyn "Frych" ap Gwriad
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 780 Gwynedd, Wales
Marriage Abt 819 Caer Seiont, Caernavon, Gwynedd, Walesto Esyllt verch Cynan
Other  Speculative Wife?: Nest ferch Cadell (1) 
with Esyllt verch Cynan
Other  Speculative Wife?: Essylt verch Cynan (1) 
with Esyllt verch Cynan
Death[2] 843 Swansea, WalesBattle of Cyfeiliog
Alt Death[3][4] 844
Reference Number? Q886414?
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Merfyn Frych ('Merfyn the Freckled'; Old Welsh Mermin), also known as Merfyn ap Gwriad ('Merfyn son of Gwriad') and Merfyn Camwri ('Merfyn the Oppressor'), was King of Gwynedd from around 825 to 844, the first of its kings known not to have descended from the male line of Cunedda.

Little is known of his reign, and his primary notability is as the father of Rhodri the Great and founder of his dynasty, which was sometimes called the Merfynion after him. Merfyn came to the throne in the aftermath of a bloody dynastic struggle between two rivals named Cynan and Hywel generally identified with the sons of Rhodri Molwynog.

The Annales Cambriae say Merfyn died around 844, the same year in which a battle occurred at Cetyll, but it is unclear whether those were two unrelated events or he fell in battle.

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References
  1.   Merfyn Frych, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ MERFYN ap Gwriad "Frych/the Freckled" (-844), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
  3. ↑ Bartrum, Peter C. (Peter Clement). Early Welsh genealogical tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966)
    page 12.

    Bartrum has his wife as Esyllt f. Cynan Dindaethwy and Nest f. Cadell as his mother, but notes that in HG and JC this is reversed.

  4. ↑ Merfyn Frych, in Welsh Biography Online.
  5.   Baldwin, Stewart. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table. (GEN-MEDIEVAL/soc.genealogy.medieval)
    Generation 12.
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