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Page 133
... Deheubarth . Eventually Gwynedd and Powys also came under his rule . Hywel , possibly inspired by ad- miration for the Wessex court but more probably con- strained by the power of King Athelstan ( d . 939 ) , accepted the status of a ...
... Deheubarth . Eventually Gwynedd and Powys also came under his rule . Hywel , possibly inspired by ad- miration for the Wessex court but more probably con- strained by the power of King Athelstan ( d . 939 ) , accepted the status of a ...
Page 134
... Deheubarth , particularly Morgannwg and Brycheiniog , that still lay outside Norman control . Mean- while , from Chester and Shrewsbury , the Normans had penetrated more deeply into Wales , so that at Domesday , though the area ...
... Deheubarth , particularly Morgannwg and Brycheiniog , that still lay outside Norman control . Mean- while , from Chester and Shrewsbury , the Normans had penetrated more deeply into Wales , so that at Domesday , though the area ...
Page 135
... Deheubarth as well as parts of the March . His- torically , this meant the reversal of a situation , for which there were several centuries of precedent , whereby the in- creasingly fragmented territories under Welsh rule had been fiefs ...
... Deheubarth as well as parts of the March . His- torically , this meant the reversal of a situation , for which there were several centuries of precedent , whereby the in- creasingly fragmented territories under Welsh rule had been fiefs ...
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