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English is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
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Howell), "King of the West Welsh" was a
CeltCelts is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language...
ic monarch of the early-mid 10th century recorded in the
Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The annals were initially created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple manuscript copies were made and distributed to monasteries...
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English is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
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Howell), "King of the West Welsh" was a
CeltCelts is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language...
ic monarch of the early-mid 10th century recorded in the
Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The annals were initially created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple manuscript copies were made and distributed to monasteries...
. There is some controversy over the location of his kingdom.
This character only appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 927, as one of several kings who signed a treaty at
Eamont BridgeEamont Bridge is a small village immediately to the south of Penrith, Cumbria.The village is named after the River Eamont and straddles the boundary between the ancient counties of Cumberland and Westmorland...
accepting King
AthelstanAthelstan or Æthelstan , called the Glorious, was the King of England from 924/925 to 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder, and nephew of Æthelflæd of Mercia...
of
WessexThe Kingdom of Wessex or Kingdom of the West Saxons was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of a united English state in the 10th century, under the Wessex dynasty. It was to be an earldom after Canute the Great's conquest of...
as their overlord.
He is described as a "King of the West Welsh". The only place ever referred to by the
Anglo-SaxonsAnglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the Norman conquest of 1066...
as "West Wales", was
DumnoniaDumnonia is the Latinised name for a Brythonic kingdom, or group of sub-kingdoms, in sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries, located in the farther parts of the south-west peninsula of Great Britain...
or
CornwallThe Kingdom of Cornwall or Kernow or West Wales existed during the sub-Roman and Early Middle Ages in Great Britain's south-western peninsula.-Name:...
. However, it can also refer to present day West Wales, then generally known as
Deheubarth
, and some
WelshWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It is also an elective region of the European Union...
and
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
studies claim that this is a reference to that area's monarch at the time,
Hywel DdaHywel Dda , was a well-thought-of king of Deheubarth in south-west Wales, who, using his cunning, eventually came to rule Wales from Prestatyn to Pembroke. As a descendant of Rhodri Mawr through his father Cadell, Hywel was a member of the Dinefwr branch of the dynasty and is also named Hywel ap...
.
However, some historians believe he was indeed from the Dumnonia and Huwel is "regarded as the last in a line of independent or semi-independent Cornish (Dumnonian) kings" by Professor
Philip PaytonPhilip John Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies based at Tremough, just outside Penryn, Cornwall.-Birth and education:...
of the
Institute of Cornish StudiesThe Institute of Cornish Studies started in 1970/71 as a research centre jointly funded by Exeter University and Cornwall County Council, with three core staff being employees of the University of Exeter .-The Thomas era:...