OWAIN ap CADWGAN (died 1116), prince of Powys
Date of death: 1116
Partner: Nest ferch Rhys ap Tewdwr
Parent: Cadwgan ab Bleddyn
Gender: Male
Occupation: prince of Powys
Area of activity: Politics, Government and Political Movements; Royalty and Society
Author: Thomas Jones Pierce
He has earned notoriety because of his abduction of Nest in 1109, and the murder in 1110 of a leading member of the Flemish colony in Dyfed, incidents which gained him the lasting enmity of those injured thereby; indeed he died at the hands of a party of Flemings led by Nest's husband, Gerald of Windsor, when, in 1116, he was campaigning on behalf of the king against a fellow- prince in South Wales. Meanwhile, after two short periods of exile in Ireland, he had succeeded his father, Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, as ' king in Powys (1111). After the royal expedition into Wales in 1114, Henry I, who had always shown considerable patience with Owain, took the precaution of taking him to Normandy where he was knighted in 1115. He left no direct descendants.
Author
- Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, (1905 - 1964)
- A History of Wales: from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (London 1912)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Owain ap Cadwgan
Further Reading
- Wikidata: Q2989299
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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