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Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1203) was Prince of Gwynedd
Kingdom of Gwynedd

Gwynedd is one of several Wales successor states that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the Deceangli which were collectively known as Venedotia in late Romano-British documents....
 from 1170 to 1195. For a time he ruled jointly with his brothers Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd
Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd

Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd was a prince of part of Kingdom of Gwynedd.Maelgwn was the son of Owain Gwynedd and Gwladus ferch Llywarch ap Trahaearn, and therefore full brother to Iorwerth Drwyndwn, the father of Llywelyn the Great....
 and Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd
Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd

Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd , was prince of part of Kingdom of Gwynedd, one of the kingdoms of medieval Wales. He ruled from 1175 to 1195.On the death of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, fighting broke out among his nineteen sons over the division of his kingdom....
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Dafydd was the son of Owain Gwynedd
Owain Gwynedd

Owain Gwynedd , alternatively known by the patronymic "Owain ap Gruffydd". He is occasionally referred to as Owain I of Gwynedd, or Owain I of Wales on account of his claim to be King of Wales....
 by Cristin verch Goronwy. Since Owain and Cristin were first cousins, the marriage was not accepted by the church, which regarded Dafydd as illegitimate. Dafydd first appears on the scene in 1157 when King Henry II of England
Henry II of England

Henry II, called Curtmantle ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France....
 invaded Gwynedd. Dafydd was involved in the skirmish near Basingwerk in which King Henry was nearly killed.






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Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1203) was Prince of Gwynedd
Kingdom of Gwynedd

Gwynedd is one of several Wales successor states that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the Deceangli which were collectively known as Venedotia in late Romano-British documents....
 from 1170 to 1195. For a time he ruled jointly with his brothers Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd
Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd

Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd was a prince of part of Kingdom of Gwynedd.Maelgwn was the son of Owain Gwynedd and Gwladus ferch Llywarch ap Trahaearn, and therefore full brother to Iorwerth Drwyndwn, the father of Llywelyn the Great....
 and Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd
Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd

Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd , was prince of part of Kingdom of Gwynedd, one of the kingdoms of medieval Wales. He ruled from 1175 to 1195.On the death of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, fighting broke out among his nineteen sons over the division of his kingdom....
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Dafydd was the son of Owain Gwynedd
Owain Gwynedd

Owain Gwynedd , alternatively known by the patronymic "Owain ap Gruffydd". He is occasionally referred to as Owain I of Gwynedd, or Owain I of Wales on account of his claim to be King of Wales....
 by Cristin verch Goronwy. Since Owain and Cristin were first cousins, the marriage was not accepted by the church, which regarded Dafydd as illegitimate. Dafydd first appears on the scene in 1157 when King Henry II of England
Henry II of England

Henry II, called Curtmantle ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France....
 invaded Gwynedd. Dafydd was involved in the skirmish near Basingwerk in which King Henry was nearly killed. In 1165 he was recorded as having settled in the Vale of Clwyd and as having attacked Tegeingl, gaining much plunder.

Upon the death of Owain Gwynedd
Owain Gwynedd

Owain Gwynedd , alternatively known by the patronymic "Owain ap Gruffydd". He is occasionally referred to as Owain I of Gwynedd, or Owain I of Wales on account of his claim to be King of Wales....
 in 1170, his sons fell into dispute over lordship of Gwynedd
Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a Administrative divisions of Wales in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although one of the biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated....
. Together, Dafydd and Rhodri
Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd

Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd , was prince of part of Kingdom of Gwynedd, one of the kingdoms of medieval Wales. He ruled from 1175 to 1195.On the death of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, fighting broke out among his nineteen sons over the division of his kingdom....
 attacked and killed their brother Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd
Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd

Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd was a Wales poet and military leader. Hywel was the son of Owain Gwynedd, prince of Kingdom of Gwynedd, and an Irishwoman named Pyfog....
 that same year. Dafydd drove out Maelgwn in 1173, sending him fleeing to Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
. Another brother, Cynan, died in 1174, removing one more contender for the throne. The same year Dafydd captured and imprisoned his brothers Maelgwn (who had returned from Ireland) and Rhodri. He was now sole ruler of Gwynedd, and that same year he married Emme of Anjou, the half-sister of King Henry II of England
Henry II of England

Henry II, called Curtmantle ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France....
, in summer 1174. Emme was an illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou
Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou

Geoffrey V , called the Handsome and Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Count of Tours, and Count of Maine by inheritance from 1129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144....
. They had four children:

  • Owain
  • Einion
  • Gwenllian
  • Gwenhwyfar.


In 1175 Rhodri escaped and attacked his brother, seizing all Gwynedd west of the River Conwy
River Conwy

The River Conwy is a river in North Wales Wales. From its source to its discharge in Conwy Bay it is a little over long. "Conwy" is sometimes Anglicized as "Conway."...
. Dafydd was able to keep the eastern part, and in 1177 King Henry gave him the manors of Ellesmere
Ellesmere

Ellesmere can mean:* Ellesmere, Shropshire, a market town in Shropshire, England** Ellesmere Castle** Ellesmere Rural, a civil parish to the west...
 and Hales in England. He had a castle at Rhuddlan
Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan is a town in the county of Denbighshire , in north Wales. It is situated to the south of the coastal town of Rhyl and overlooks the River Clwyd....
 where Giraldus Cambrensis
Giraldus Cambrensis

Gerald of Wales , also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh language or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and English historians in the Middle Ages....
 spent a night on his journey round Wales with Archbishop Baldwin.

In 1194, Dafydd faced a new threat from his nephew, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, who defeated him at the battle of Aberconwy
Battle of Aberconwy

The Battle of Aberconwy was fought in 1194 between the forces of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd for control of Gwynedd. Llywelyn's victory allowed him to claim the title of prince of Gwynedd and, in turn, prince of Wales; ejected from his lands, Dafydd went to live in England and died in 1203....
 with the aid of his cousins, the sons of Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd, drove him from most of his possessions and imprisoned him in 1197. He was released a year later thanks to the efforts of Hubert Walter
Hubert Walter

Hubert Walter was an influential royal adviser in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries in the positions of chief justiciar of England, archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor....
, Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
. Dafydd retired to the Kingdom of England
Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a state in North-West Europe. The Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and a number of smaller outlying islands?what is today the legal unit of England and Wales....
, where he died in May 1203. Emme died in or after 1214, when she disappears from the Pipe Rolls
Pipe Rolls

The Pipe rolls, sometimes called the Great rolls, are a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, or Treasury....
.