ABEliCONWY. 



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or, the lame. Anarawd also gave very extensive 

 lands to the collegiate churches of liaui^or and 

 Clynnoc vawr in Arvon, out of gratitude to God 

 for this great victory. 



Dyganvvy continued to be the residence of the 

 kings of North Wales until A. D. 810, in the 

 reign of Cynan Tindaethwy, when it was destroy- 

 ed by lightning, and the town of Aberconwy was 

 built out of the ruins/ We are told by Camden, 

 that Hugh Lupus, earl of Chester, fortified Con- 

 wy, Mr. Pennant supposes when on his march to 

 Anglesey, in 1098, but it may be doubted whetlier 

 his fortification was on the west side of the river, 

 I rather suppose it to have been at Dyganwy, 

 which was in a district accounted as part of the 

 possessions of the earl of Chester. The Welsh 

 did not erect a fortress there after the destruction 

 of the city in 810 ; and the ruins now remaining 

 are those of a castle originally built by Hugh 

 l^upus : Robert of Rhuddlan, who had obtained a 

 grant of several places in the neighbourhood of 

 Rhuddlan from the earl, was probably the con- 



^ " Nomen tamcn (Dyganwy) adluic loco permansit, ct ex ejus 

 luinis fedificata fiiit Conovia." Humfr. Lhwyd's Brit. Descript. 



frag. 54. Edit. 1572. 



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