9th century in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the century 801–900 to Wales and its people.

## Events

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See also: Timeline of Welsh history § 9th century

830

* Approximate date – Nennius's Historia Brittonum[1]

878

* Merfyn ap Rhodri succeeds his father Rhodri the Great as king of Powys, reigning until his own death in c.900

893

* Spring – Battle of Buttington,[2] a victory for a joint Anglo-Saxon and Welsh force against the Vikings; the Buttington Oak, planted about this time, perhaps to commemorate the event, falls in 2018
* Autumn – Danish Vikings are forced from Chester into Wales.

## Births

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854

* Cadell ap Rhodri, King of Seisyllwg (died 909)[3]

## Deaths

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808

* Cadell ap Brochfael, king of Powys[4]

809

* Elfodd, bishop of Gwynedd,[5] who persuaded the Welsh church to adopt the Roman method of determining the date of Easter

844

* Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd

855

* Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys

871

* Gwgon, king of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi[6]

878

* Rhodri the Great, king of Gwynedd and most of Wales (born c. 820)

## References

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1. ^ Dorothy Whitelock; Rosamond McKitterick; David Dumville (8 July 1982). Ireland in Early Medieval Europe: Studies in Memory of Kathleen Hughes. Cambridge University Press. p. 135\. ISBN 978-0-521-23547-1.
2. ^ Justin Pollard (29 June 2006). Alfred the Great. Hodder. p. 281.
3. ^ Lloyd, John Edward (1912). A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 325. Retrieved 7 July 2010. "Lloyd history of Wales."
4. ^ N. J. Higham; Barri Jones (2001). Archaeology of the Roman Empire: a tribute to the life and works of Professor Barri Jones. Archaeopress. p. 316\. ISBN 978-1-84171-232-1.
5. ^ David Walker (28 June 1990). Medieval Wales. Cambridge University Press. p. 12\. ISBN 978-0-521-31153-3.
6. ^ David N. Dumville (29 April 1999). Saint Patrick. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 112\. ISBN 978-0-85115-733-7.

*[c.]: circa