Ruler · 730 – 798

Caradog ap Meirion

Lived 730 – 798; monarch. King of Gwynedd of Kingdom of Gwynedd, 754 – 798.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 730 – 798; 68 years
In office: 44 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Gwynedd
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

King of Gwynedd

Kingdom of Gwynedd · the 14th of 40 dated reigns · 450 – 1240

10 before

Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon655 – 682

Idwal Iwrch682 – 720

Rhodri Molwynog720 – 754

Caradog ap Meirion754 – 798

Cynan Dindaethwy798 – 816

Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog816 – 825

Merfyn Frych825 – 844

23 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 754 – 798 · 44 years · came to it aged 24

Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

According to Brut Aberpergwm, a purported medieval Welsh text which was accepted as such by the editors of the Myvyrian Archaiology (but which is now known to be a forgery of Iolo Morganwg's), Caradog was slain in the 796 battle.

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