The family had to take part in four games and a final showdown with the Herdman family from Powys. |
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Hay-on-Wye is in Powys, Wales, and across the border it's closish to Hereford. |
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The family have now moved from their detached home in Primrose Avenue, Macclesfield to a secluded farm in Powys. |
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Powys withstood encroachments from England and Gwynedd throughout its existence, although the Welsh custom of partible inheritance caused rivalries among the ruling family. |
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Following the Roman withdrawal from Britain around 410 AD, the Cornovians seem to have divided into Pengwern and Powys. |
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The structure did not represent a mutually agreed boundary between the Mercians and the Kingdom of Powys. |
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The first Lord Lieutenant of Powys was previously the Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire. |
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Gruffydd was the son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll, who had been able to rule both Gwynedd and Powys. |
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The term is also sometimes applied to parts of Powys, Monmouthshire and Wrexham. |
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Dyfed Powys Police later confirmed that the case, which was found in Lammas Street, Carmarthen, west Wales, did not contain an explosive device. |
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Powys and Monmouthshire councils blame the Welsh Assembly Government for cutting their funding in favour of giving cash to Wales' urban councils. |
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A NETWORK of pruners has been set up to help regenerate long-lost orchards in Powys. |
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After the division of Powys in 1160 it became the capital of the southern portion which eventually became known as Powys Wenwynwyn. |
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He apparently took Powys from Llywelyn ap Merfyn at the same time and arranged for a dynastic marriage between their children. |
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Meirionnydd was then a vassal cantref of Powys, and the family there a cadet of the Mathrafal house of Powys. |
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The brothers raided Meirionnydd with the Lord of Powys as important there as he was in the Perfeddwlad. |
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In the planning of it, there was a degree of consultation with the kings of Powys and Gwent. |
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With the death of Cyngen in 855 Rhodri the Great became king of Powys, having inherited Gwynedd the year before. |
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This formed the basis of Gwynedd's continued claims of overlordship over Powys for the next 443 years. |
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On his death, Gwynedd reverted to the Aberffraw dynasty, though Powys and Deheubarth were divided between his sons. |
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Maredudd fought off English encroachment in Powys and increasing Viking raids in Gwynedd. |
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With Bleddyn's death, Powys passed to his sons and grandsons in their turn. |
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Gwenwynwyn of Powys changed sides again that year and allied himself with King John. |
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Powys was itself divided between Bleddyn's sons Iorwerth, Cadwgan, and Maredudd. |
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The three sons of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn would lead the resistance and their restoration in Powys. |
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The Aberffraw dynasty suffered various depositions by rivals in Deheubarth, Powys, and England in the 10th and 11th centuries. |
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Between 1255 and 1258 Llywelyn orchestrated a campaign against England across all of Wales gaining allies in Deheubarth and Powys. |
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His leaderless forces were routed shortly afterwards and the English forces, led by Edward I, moved to occupy Powys and eastern Gwynedd. |
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He appears to have reclaimed the territory of Powys after it had been overrun by the English. |
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Although its precise original purpose is debated, it delineated the border between Anglian Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys. |
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In Powys the river lies within the Radnorshire Environmentally Sensitive Area. |
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According to later genealogies, his mother or grandmother was Nest ferch Cadell of the ruling dynasty in Powys. |
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Another, Cadell, was given Ceredigion and killed his brother Merfyn to claim Powys as well. |
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His brothers Cadell and Merfyn received large estates as well, sometimes said to include the kingdoms of Ceredigion and Powys, respectively. |
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Gwynedd borders the counties of Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, Powys, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi. |
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It is named after the successor Kingdom of Powys, which formed after the Romans withdrew from Britain. |
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Powys has the lowest population density of all the principal areas of Wales. |
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In December 2007 Powys was awarded Fairtrade County status by the Fairtrade Foundation. |
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Eventually, a cadet branch of Dinefwr would establish itself in Powys by the mid 11th century, designated Mathrafal after the castle there. |
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Mathrafal is the original capital of the Kingdom of Powys, in the cantref of Caereinion. |
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It is bounded by the preserved counties of Gwynedd to the north, Powys to the east and West Glamorgan to the southeast. |
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Bleddyn ap Cynfyn and his brother Rhiwallon came to an agreement with Harold and were given the rule of Gwynedd and Powys. |
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His elder brother Cadwallon was killed in a battle against the forces of Powys in 1132, leaving Owain as his father's heir. |
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In 1146 he captured Mold Castle and about 1150 captured Rhuddlan and encroached on the borders of Powys. |
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The prince of Powys, Madog ap Maredudd, with assistance from Earl Ranulf of Chester, gave battle at Coleshill, but Owain was victorious. |
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Henry invaded Gwynedd in 1157 with the support of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys and Owain's brother Cadwaladr. |
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The summit lies on the border between Powys and Denbighshire, and is the highest point in Denbighshire. |
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Llywelyn's mother was Marared, occasionally anglicised to Margaret, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys. |
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Llywelyn took the opportunity to annex southern Powys and northern Ceredigion and rebuild Aberystwyth castle. |
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Llywelyn formed an alliance with Gwenwynwyn of Powys and the two main rulers of Deheubarth, Maelgwn ap Rhys and Rhys Gryg, and rose against John. |
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Llywelyn called up the other princes for a campaign against him and drove him out of southern Powys once more. |
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One of the earliest written references to Machynlleth is the Royal charter granted in 1291 by Edward I to Owen de la Pole, Lord of Powys. |
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However, by the early 13th century Wrexham was undisputedly in the hands of the Welsh house of Powys Fadog. |
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As Caer Guricon it is a possible alternative for the Dark Age seat of the Kingdom of Powys. |
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It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. |
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Taliesin also sang in praise of Cynan Garwyn, king of Powys, Wales, and Cynan's predecessor Brochwel Ysgithrog is also mentioned in later poems. |
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Daffodils are grown commercially near Brecon in Powys, Wales, to produce galantamine, a drug used to combat Alzheimer's disease. |
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Roberts was born at Llanymynech, Powys, on the border between England and Wales. |
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Powys council said it had cut its pounds 186,000 funding because the ACW had earlier slashed its support of pounds 211,000 to the group. |
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Powys has vast experience in boat management and sailed in the Whitbread Round the World Race maxi yachts Rothmans and Fortuna. |
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Powys leads the list with 4,578ha let as smallholdings, with Anglesey second with 2,522ha and Pembrokeshire third with 2,065ha. |
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For 14 years the world bog snorkelling championships have been held at the Waen Rhydd peat bog near Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys. |
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An english hospital just across the Welsh border has warned it could stop treating patients from Powys unless it receives more money. |
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His scores were part of a 15-try romp as Cardiff dumped village side Dina Powys out of the last 16 of the Swalec Cup. |
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It is understood under one proposal libraries in Dinas Powys, Wenvoe, Sully and St Athan would be manned solely by volunteers. |
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The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent. |
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The kingdoms of Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed and Seisyllwg, Morgannwg and Gwent emerged as independent Welsh successor states. |
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In 2006, there were seventeen district hospitals in Wales, although none situated in Powys. |
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Bari Jones, in Archaeology Today in 1998, identified Blodwel Rocks at Llanymynech in Powys as representing a close fit with Tacitus's account. |
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The Aberffraw family had long claimed primacy over all other Welsh lords, including over those rulers of Powys and of Deheubarth. |
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However, de Breos was in disgrace by 1208, and Llywelyn seized both Powys Wenwynwyn and northern Ceredigon. |
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The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. |
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However, Oswiu killed Penda shortly after, and Mercia spent the rest of the 7th and all of the 8th century fighting the kingdom of Powys. |
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Eliot, Anna Akhmatova, William Faulkner, Dorothy Richardson, John Cowper Powys, and Ezra Pound. |
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In addition to using Welsh history and settings, Powys also uses the mythology of The Mabinogion. |
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He defeated and then allied with Madog ap Maredudd of Powys in 1157, and used this alliance to overwhelm Owain Gwynedd. |
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The boundary passes between Flintshire, Powys and Monmouthshire in Wales and Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in England. |
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While Gwynedd grew in strength, Powys was broken up after the death of Llywelyn ap Madog in the 1160s and was never reunited. |
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All of these camps are in the county of Shropshire but there was another significant settlement at the Breiddin hillfort in Powys. |
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In the following centuries, the Powys eastern border was encroached upon by English settlers from the emerging Anglian territory of Mercia. |
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Gruffydd, who had already recovered Powys, expanded into the vacuum. |
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In Wales, CSA examples are mostly based on organic land, like Flintshare in Flintshire and Hill Cottage market garden in Powys, but numbers are still small. |
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He was king of Deheubarth and Powys by 986, when he seized Gwynedd. |
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The majority of the Powys population lives in villages and small towns. |
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Anthony Mobey, of Lettons Way, Dinas Powys, who runs the South Wales branch of international firm Lyndon, denied assaulting the former managing director. |
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The minibus, used by Dinas Powys Voluntary Concern, is out of action after thieves stole the catalytic converter while it was locked in a council compound. |
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Radio Ceredigion has a TSA of 74,000 people, and can be heard from Bangor through to Cross Hands, including parts of Powys, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. |
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Two previously unknown Roman fortlets have been discovered guarding strategic passes on the Roman road system near Llanerfyl, in northern Powys, and near Bala in Gwynedd. |
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On Llywelyn's death in 1023, a member of the Aberffraw dynasty, Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig, became ruler of Gwynedd and began his rise to power in Powys. |
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However, in 1132 while on campaign in the commote of Nanheudwy, near Llangollen, 'victorious' Cadwallon was defeated in battle and slain by an army from Powys. |
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The uplands retain evidence of occupation from long before the Kingdom of Powys, and before the Romans, who built roads and forts across the area. |
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However, it is possible, because of internal inconsistencies, that the poetry connected to Powys was associated with Llywarch's name at a later, probably 9th century, date. |
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Dave Powys is taking on the important shore manager position. |
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Recent research suggests that Powys is the happiest place in the UK, although the researchers noted that the numbers were not statistically significant. |
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By 1096 they had retaken most of Powys, including Montgomery Castle. |
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Through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the House of Mathrafal struggled to retain its lands in Powys against Norman Marcher lords and a resurgent Gwynedd. |
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This branch would compete with House Aberffraw for supremacy and influence in Wales throughout the 10th, 11th, and 12th century, with Powys variously ruled between them. |
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Gruffudd recovered Gwynedd by 1095, and by 1098 Gruffudd allied with Cadwgan ap Bleddyn of the Mathrafal house of Powys, their traditional dynastic rivalry notwithstanding. |
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The Shropshire landowner Eadric the Wild, in alliance with the Welsh rulers of Gwynedd and Powys, raised a revolt in western Mercia, fighting Norman forces based in Hereford. |
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While Owain ap Cadwgan of Ceredigion sought refuge in Gwynedd's mountains, Maredudd ap Bleddyn of Powys made peace with the English king as the Norman army advanced. |
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Powys brought a force of 400 warriors to the aid of its ally Rhufoniog, while Chester sent Norman knights from Rhuddlan to the aid of Dyffryn Clwyd. |
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He claimed descent from Rhodri Mawr through the House of Powys Fadog. |
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Powys roughly coincided with the territory of the Celtic Cornovii tribe whose civitas or administrative centre during the Roman period was at Viroconium. |
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The capital of Powys, Pengwern, at or near modern Shrewsbury, was conquered by Oswiu of Northumbria in 656 when he had become overlord of the Mercians. |
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By now, Owain's enemies had joined Henry II's camp, enemies such as his wayward brother Cadwaladr and in particular the support of Madog of Powys. |
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The death of Madog ap Meredudd of Powys in 1160 opened an opportunity for Owain I of Gwynedd to further press Gwynedd's influence at the expense of Powys. |
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However, Welsh principalities such as Gwynedd, Powys and Deheubarth survived and from the end of the 11th century, the Welsh began pushing back the Norman advance. |
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The principality of Gwynedd was the dominant power in Wales in the first half of the 13th century, with Powys and Deheubarth becoming tributary states. |
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He married John's natural daughter Joan in 1205, and when John arrested Gwenwynwyn ap Owain of Powys in 1208, Llywelyn took the opportunity to annex southern Powys. |
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Speaking last week before the travellers left, Dinas Powys Cricket Club captain Nathan Piddock said the team were unable to complete a home fixture because of the disruption. |
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Additional lands were acquired through vassalage or conquest, and by regaining lands lost to Marcher lords, particularly that of Ceredigion, Powys Fadog, and Powys Wenwynwyn. |
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The Welsh Clay Target Shooting Association is based in Caersws, Powys. |
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In early 1274, there was a plot by Llywelyn's brother, Dafydd, and Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn of Powys Wenwynwyn and his son, Owain, to kill Llywelyn. |
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Llywelyn made his first move beyond the borders of Gwynedd in August 1202 when he raised a force to attack Gwenwynwyn ab Owain of Powys, who was now his main rival in Wales. |
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Other kings are said to have introduced later modifications to the laws, for example Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of Gwynedd and Powys in the mid 11th century. |
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The Kingdom of Powys was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain. |
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An entry in the Annales Cambriae concerning the death of King Cadell ap Brochfael says that the land later called Powys was originally known as Teyrnllwg. |
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Upon the death of his father King Owain around AD 988, he also inherited the kingdoms of Gwynedd and Powys, which he had conquered for his father. |
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In 1208, Gwenwynwyn of Powys fell out with King John who summoned him to Shrewsbury in October and then arrested him and stripped him of his lands. |
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Stability under the princes of Powys enabled Wrexham to develop as a trading town and administrative centre of one of the two commotes making up the Lordship. |
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John sent troops to help restore Gwenwynwyn to the rule of southern Powys. |
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Merfyn inherited Powys, whilst his brothers, Anarawd ap Rhodri and Cadell, established the Aberffraw dynasty in Gwynedd and the line of Dinefwr respectively. |
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Cardiff Blues are responsible for developing rugby union in the city of Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil and south Powys. |
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