Hyfaidd ap Bledri, King of Dyfed

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173393650888 (February 6, 2023; Anne Brannen, curator)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Rulers of Brycheiniog - The Unanswered Questions; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id161.html. (Steven Ferry, March 17, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Legendary Kingdom of Seisyllwg; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id123.html. (Steven Ferry, September 11, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Einion ap Celynin of Llwydiarth; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id138.html. (Steven Ferry, October 17, 2020.

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Harleian Ms 3859; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id129.html. (Steven Ferry, March 8, 2021.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Hyfaidd ap Bleddri versus Sons of Rhodri Mawr; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id266.html. (Steven Ferry, May 5, 2021.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Ancestry of King Rhys ap Tewdwr of Deheubarth; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id309.html (Steven Ferry, January 12, 2023.)

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• Hyfaidd Ap Bleiddig

born Abt 0820 Of, Dyfed, Wales

died 0893

father:

• Bleiddig (Bledri)

born Abt 0790 Of, Dyfed, Wales

(end of information)

mother:

• Tangwystl Verch Owain

born Abt 0794 Of, Dyfed, Wales

(end of information)

siblings:

unknown

spouse:

• Mrs. Hyfaidd Ap Bleiddig

born Abt 0822 Of, Dyfed, Wales

died 0893

(end of information)

children:

• Llywarch Ap Hymeid

born Abt 0867 Of, Dynevor, Wales

died 0904

biographical and/or anecdotal:

notes or source:

LDS

Brenin Ddyfed Hyfaidd o Ddyfed1,2,3,4

b. circa 815, d. 893

Father Bledrig Aillt o Ddyfed1,3,5 b. circa 795

Mother Tangwystl ferch Owain o Ddyfed1,3 b. 794

    Brenin Ddyfed Hyfaidd o Ddyfed was the successor of Brenin Ddyfed Owain ap Maredudd o Ddyfed; King of Dyfed.6 Brenin Ddyfed Hyfaidd o Ddyfed was born circa 815.1 He was the son of Bledrig Aillt o Ddyfed and Tangwystl ferch Owain o Ddyfed.1,3,5 King of Dyfed at South Wales between 870 and 893.3,6 Brenin Ddyfed Hyfaidd o Ddyfed was oppressed by King Anarawd of Gwynedd and his brothers circa 890.1 He submitted to the overlordship of King Alfred the Great of England rather than to Anarawd of Gwynedd before 893.7 He died in 893.1,2,3,8 He was the predecessor of Brenin Ddyfed Llywarch ap Hyfaidd o Ddyfed; King of Dyfed.6

Family

Children

Brenin Ddyfed Llywarch ap Hyfaidd o Ddyfed+ b. c 840, d. 9041,9

Brenin Ddyfed Rhodri ap Hyfaidd o Ddyfed b. c 845, d. 9041

Elen ferch Hyfaidd o Ddyfed+ b. c 8521

Citations

[S266] EBK, online http://freespace.virgin.net/david.ford2/…

[S278] DfAdam, online unknown url, The Line of Eochaid Allmuir mac Airt Cuirp, 116.

[S483] Stewart Baldwin, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth's ancestors in "Baldwin-Llywelyn," listserve message Dec 1998.

[S492] Genealogies from Harleian MS. 3859, manuscript, probably between 954 and 988 unknown repository, 2: "Himeyt".

[S499] Rachel Bromwich, Triads of Britain, no. 68.

[S640] History Files, online http://homepages.tesco.net/~plk33/plk33/history.htm

[S261] Regnal Chronologies, online http://www.hostkingdom.net/regindex.html

[S485] Various, Annales Cambriae.

[S278] DfAdam, online unknown url, The Line of Eochaid Allmuir mac Airt Cuirp, 117.

Brenin Ddyfed Hyfaidd o Ddyfed was the successor of Brenin Ddyfed Owain ap Maredudd o Ddyfed; King of Dyfed.6 Brenin Ddyfed Hyfaidd o Ddyfed was born circa 815.1 He was the son of Bledrig Aillt o Ddyfed and Tangwystl ferch Owain o Ddyfed.1,3,5 King of Dyfed at South Wales between 870 and 893.3,6 Brenin Ddyfed Hyfaidd o Ddyfed was oppressed by King Anarawd of Gwynedd and his brothers circa 890.1 He submitted to the overlordship of King Alfred the Great of England rather than to Anarawd of Gwynedd before 893.7 He died in 893.1,2,3,8 He was the predecessor of Brenin Ddyfed Llywarch ap Hyfaidd o Ddyfed; King of Dyfed.6

Family

Children

   * Brenin Ddyfed Llywarch ap Hyfaidd o Ddyfed+ b. c 840, d. 9041,9

* Brenin Ddyfed Rhodri ap Hyfaidd o Ddyfed b. c 845, d. 9041
* Elen ferch Hyfaidd o Ddyfed+ b. c 8521
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p314.htm#i11597

Triad 68—"Three Kings who Sprang from Villeins"—lists Hyfaidd among their number, meaning that his father Bleddri or Bledrig was held to have been a serf rather than a member of Dyfed's old royal family claiming descent from Aed Brosc. An alternate theory relates him to the royal family of Ceredigion. His mother was supposed to be Tangwystl, a daughter of the earlier King Owain.

Charles-Edwards argues that Hyfaidd was responsible for consolidating the lands that would later become Deheubarth, annexing Ystrad Tywi and possibly Ceredigion to Dyfed before his death.[3] He was said to have oppressed the clerics of Meneva (modern St. David's) and exiled Bishop Nobis, earning him the enmity of Nobis's kinsman, the historian Asser.

Although later Welsh histories made Hywel Dda's inheritance of Dyfed a peaceful affair brought about by his marriage to Hyfaidd's granddaughter Elen and the extinction of Hyfaidd's male line, Asser's more contemporary Life of King Alfred reports that Dyfed or Brycheiniog both fell under such sustained attack from Hywel's uncle Anarawd and father Cadell that Kings Hyfaidd and Elise submitted to King Alfred of Wessex's overlordship in exchange for protection.

Hyfaidd's sons Llywarch and Rhodri reigned after him, but the kingdom was soon lost to Cadell's son Hywel who consolidated his realms as Deheubarth.