Cadwallon ap Cadfan
King of Gwynedd from 625 to 634 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cadwallon ap Cadfan (died 634[1]) was the King of Gwynedd from around 625 until his death in battle. The son and successor of Cadfan ap Iago, he is best remembered as the King of the Britons who invaded and conquered Northumbria, defeating and killing its king, Edwin, prior to his own death in battle against Oswald of Bernicia. His conquest of Northumbria, which he held for a year or two after Edwin died, made him one of the last recorded Celtic Britons to hold substantial territory in eastern Britain until the rise of the Welsh House of Tudor.[2] He was thereafter remembered as a national hero by the Britons and as a tyrant by the Anglo-Saxons of Northumbria.
Cadwallon ap Cadfan | |
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King of Gwynedd | |
Reign | c.625 ā 634 AD |
Predecessor | Cadfan ap Iago |
Successor | Cadfael Cadomedd |
Died | 634 AD (Battle of Heavenfield) |
Issue | Cadwaladr |
House | House of Gwynedd |
Father | Cadfan ap Iago |