9th century in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the century 801–900 to Wales and its people.
Events
[edit]- Approximate date – Nennius's Historia Brittonum[1]
- Merfyn ap Rhodri succeeds his father Rhodri the Great as king of Powys, reigning until his own death in c.900
- Spring – Battle of Buttington,[2] a victory for a joint Anglo-Saxon and Welsh force against the Vikings; the Buttington Oak, planted about this time, perhaps to commemorate the event, falls in 2018
- Autumn – Danish Vikings are forced from Chester into Wales.
Births
[edit]- Cadell ap Rhodri, King of Seisyllwg (died 909)[3]
Deaths
[edit]- Cadell ap Brochfael, king of Powys[4]
- Elfodd, bishop of Gwynedd,[5] who persuaded the Welsh church to adopt the Roman method of determining the date of Easter
- Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd
- Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys
- Rhodri the Great, king of Gwynedd and most of Wales (born c. 820)
References
[edit]- ^ Dorothy Whitelock; Rosamond McKitterick; David Dumville (8 July 1982). Ireland in Early Medieval Europe: Studies in Memory of Kathleen Hughes. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-521-23547-1.
- ^ Justin Pollard (29 June 2006). Alfred the Great. Hodder. p. 281.
- ^ Lloyd, John Edward (1912). A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 325. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
Lloyd history of Wales.
- ^ N. J. Higham; Barri Jones (2001). Archaeology of the Roman Empire: a tribute to the life and works of Professor Barri Jones. Archaeopress. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-84171-232-1.
- ^ David Walker (28 June 1990). Medieval Wales. Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-521-31153-3.
- ^ David N. Dumville (29 April 1999). Saint Patrick. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-85115-733-7.