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Rhodri the Great
Rhodri ap Merfyn ( 820–878), later known as Rhodri the Great (), succeeded his father, Merfyn Frych, as King of Gwynedd in 844. Rhodri annexed Powys c. 856 and Seisyllwg c. 871. He is called "King of the Britons" by the "Annals of Ulster." In some later histories, he is referred to as "King of Wales", although the title is anachronistic and his realm did not include southern Wales.
Lineage and inheritance.
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Merfyn ap Rhodri
Merfyn ap Rhodri (died ) was a late 9th-century Aberffraw prince of Gwynedd. He is sometimes credited with ruling Powys after the death of his father Rhodri the Great in AD 878. In the accounts where he is credited as a king, he is reported to have lost his realm to an invasion by his brother Cadell, King of Ceredigion. Merfyn's death may be connected to the incursion into Anglesey by the Viking Ingimundr in the first decade of the 10th century.
The drowning of