GWGON ap MEURIG
(d.
871
),
king of Ceredigion, and the last of the line of Ceredig
.
According to the
Chronicle of the Princes
he was
drowned
in the year
871
. His sister,
Angharad
, m.
Rhodri Mawr
(q.v.)
. On the death of
Gwgon
this gave
Rhodri
a sufficient pretext for intervening in the affairs of the state of
Seisyllwg
, formed rather more than a century earlier by the union of
Ceredigion
and
Ystrad Tywi
.
Bibliography:
-
T. Jones
,
Brut y Tywysogion, Peniarth MS
. 20,
1941
;
-
A History of Wales
Author:
Dr David Jenkins, C.B.E., M.A., D.Litt., (1912-2002), Penrhyn-coch,
Aberystwyth
