Llywarch ap Hyfaidd

King of Dyfed
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IntroKing of Dyfed
isKing
Work fieldMilitary Royals
Gender
Male
Family
Father:Hyfaidd
Children:Elen ferch Llywarch
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Biography

Llywarch ap Hyfaidd (died c. 904) was a king of Dyfed in Wales of the High Middle Ages from c. 893 until its conquest around 904 by King Cadell of Ceredigion or Seisyllwg and his son Hywel.
Upon Llywarch's death, the kingdom passed briefly to his brother Rhodri, but Hywel soon consolidated his rule, eventually merging Dyfed with his paternal inheritance as the new kingdom of Deheubarth. Later Welsh tradition held that Hywel inherited Dyfed peacefully through his supposed marriage to Llywarch's daughter Elen in a manner similar to the stories told about his great-grandfather Merfyn's acquisition of Gwynedd, his grandfather Rhodri's acquisition of Powys, and his father's acquisition of Ceredigion, all of this despite female inheritance of land having no place in the Welsh law of the period. However, the repeated attacks of Cadell and Hywel were recorded in Asser's Life of King Alfred, where it states Hyfaidd was.

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