The first Prince of Wales? : Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, 1063-75 / Sean Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Sean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bleddyn, ap Cynfyn, active 1063-1075.

Bleddyn.

Wales--History--1063-1536.

Wales.

History.

Genre:

History.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 147 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2016.

Summary:

This is the first book written about one of Wales'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 his 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Kingdoms Unite 1

2 Bleddyn's Rise to Power 9

3 The New Kings 27

4 Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans 51

5 Opportunity and Disaster 73

6 The Principalities Divide 91.

ISBN:

9781783169368

1783169362

OCLC:

961249192