Elissau ap Anarawd King of Gwynedd

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁹²⁶
Anghard, Queen of Powys and South Wales was the daughter of Maredudd ab Owain. She married, as her first husband, Llewelyn ab Sitsyllt, one of the most celebrated Princes of Wales. The mother of this Llewelyn was Princes Trawst, daughter and heiress of Elissau, second son of Anarwd, Princes of North Wales, the eldest son of Roderick the Great.

~History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, Vol. I, p. 66

• Background Information. ¹⁰¹²
The ancestry of Elissau ap Anarawd given by Charles Cawley is:

Beli, King of Gwynedd
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Iago ap Beli, d. 616
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Cadfan ap Iago, d. 625, King of Gwynedd
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Cadwallon ap Cadfan, d. 633, King of Gwynedd
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Cadwallon ap Cadwallon, d. 664, "Fendigard," King of Gwynedd
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Idwal ap Cadwaladr, King of Gwynedd
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Rhodri ap Idwal "Molwynog," d. 754, King of Gwynedd
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Cynan ap Rhodri Dindaethwy, King of Gwynedd.
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Ethyll verch Cynan of Gwynedd married to Gwriad
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Merfyn ap Gwriad "Frych", d. 844, married Nest of Powys, daughter of Cadell ap Bochwell
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Rhodri ap Merfyn married to Anghard of Seisyllwg, daughter of Meurig ap Dyfnwallon, King of Seisyllwg.
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Anarawd ap Rhodri
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Idwal
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Elissed, killed in battled, 943