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Wclih Chronicle calleth him Prince of Wales : he dwelled moft 

 atthe caftle of Aberyftwythe. He was murthered by the Englifh 

 fouldiers which the King fent to conduct him to his countrey. 



After the death of Owen, Yerwerth (or Edward), his forme, 

 being thought unfitt to governe by reafon of the deformity of his 

 face, David his brother became Prince in his father's roome. 



I find that Yerwerth Drwndwn, or Edward with the broken 

 nofe, being put from the government of the principality, had 

 •affigned him for his part of his father's inheritance, the hundreds 

 of Nanconwy and Ardydwy k . He dwelled at the cattle of Dol- 

 wyddelan \ where it is thought credible his fon Llewelyn the 

 Great, or prince Llewelyn, was borne, whofe mother was Ma rye J 

 the daughter of Madog ap Meredydd prince of Powys. 



Conan ap Owen Gwynedd his fon had for his part the country 

 of Merioneth m . 



David married Emma frfter to King Henry the II. and had by 

 her a fonne called Owen ; upon confidence of that match he ba- 

 niflied his bale brethren, and imprifoned his brother Roderike, 

 becaufe he defired the portion of inheritance. But Rodericke 

 breaking his brother's prifon, entered the ifle of Anglifey, and 

 was received of the people as fovraigne lord thereof, and within 

 a while recovered all that parte of Wales which lyeth above the 

 river of Conway. At fuch time as Giraldus Cambrenfis in the 

 company of Baldwyn Archbifhop of Canterbury travailed through 

 Wales, preaching the crofle againft the infidells, David had noe 

 other part of the principality of Wales fave Ruddlan caftle and 



k Nantconway is a hundred of Carnarvonshire, through which the river 

 Conway runs ; Ardydwy is a hundred in the N.W. part of Merionethfhire. 



1 Th's caftie is fituated in the South Eaftern parts of Carnarvonfhire, 

 and in perhaps the leaft frequented part of the mountains. The remains 

 at prefent are very infignificant. 



m It is therefore always fliled by Giraldus Cambrenfis, Terra filiorum 

 Conani. 



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