OWAIN ap CADWGAN
(d.
1116
),
prince of Powys
.
He has earned notoriety because of his abduction of
Nest
(q.v.)
in
1109
, and the murder in
1110
of a leading member of the
Flemish
colony in
Dyfed
, incidents which gained him the lasting enmity of those injured thereby; indeed he d. at the hands of a party of
Flemings
led by
Nest
's husband,
Gerald of Windsor
, when, in
1116
, he was campaigning on behalf of the king against a fellow-
prince
in
South Wales
. Meanwhile, after two short periods of exile in
Ireland
, he had succeeded his father,
Cadwgan ap Bleddyn
(q.v.)
, as ‘
king
in
Powys
(
1111
). After the royal expedition into
Wales
in
1114
,
Henry
I
, who had always shown considerable patience with
Owain
, took the precaution of taking him to
Normandy
where he was
knighted
in
1115
. He left no direct descendants.
Bibliography:
-
A History of Wales
;
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
Author:
Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, M.A., F.S.A., (1905-1964),
Aberystwyth
