MEURIG ab IDWAL FOEL (died 986), nobleman of Gwynedd

Name: Meurig ab Idwal Foel
Date of death: 986
Child: Idwal ap Meurig
Parent: Idwal Foel
Gender: Male
Occupation: nobleman of Gwynedd
Area of activity: Politics, Government and Political Movements; Royalty and Society
Author: Thomas Jones Pierce

Youngest son of Idwal Foel. Since he died in the same year as his nephew, Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd, he was never apparently king himself. But the lineage of Rhodri Fawr was preserved in Gwynedd through his descendants - see Idwal ap Meurig.

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Published date: 1959

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