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Subject(s)

• Wales—History—1063-1536 [Browse]
• Bleddyn ap Cynfyn active 1063 or 1064-1075 [Browse]

Summary note

This is the first book written about one of Wale's greatest leaders, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, who can arguably be described as "the first prince of Wales." Bleddyn was at the heart of the tumultuous events that forged Britain in the cauldron of Norman aggression, and this study of his reign offers an important new perspective on the events of 1066 and beyond. he was a leader who used alliances on the wider British scale as he strove to recreate the fledgling kingdom of Wales that had been built and ruled by his brother, though outside pressures and internal intrigues meant his successors would compete ultimately for a principality.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-140) and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of illustrations
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• The kingdoms unite
• Bleddyn's rise to power
• The new kings
• Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans
• Opportunity and disaster
• The principalities divide
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Other title(s)

The 1st Prince of Wales?

ISBN

• 9781783169368 (paperback)
• 1783169362 (paperback)

OCLC

961249192

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