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State · 1160 – 1277

Northern Powys

A state of 1160 – 1277 — 117 years in Europe. It replaced Kingdom of Powys. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

  • Wikidata's English label: Powys Fadog.

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

Stood
117 years
1160 – 1277
Rulers
5
the Ruler
Most ground
1,300 km²
in 1169
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Northern Powys in 1169, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Northern Powys in 1169, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1,300 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Powys: 500 – 1160Northern Powys: 1160 – 1277

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Gruffydd Maelor I · 1160 – 1191 · no death date to read the end againstMadog ap Gruffydd Maelor · 1191 – 1236 · no death date to read the end againstGruffydd II ap Madog, Lord of Dinas Bran · 1236 – 1269 · no death date to read the end againstMadog II ap Gruffydd, Lord of Dinas Bran · 1269 – 1277 · no death date to read the end againstLlywelyn Fychan ap Gruffudd · 1282 – 1282 · killed, the article says116011801200122012401260
killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Gruffydd Maelor I1160 – 119131 yearsending not on record
Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor1191 – 123645 yearsending not on recordchild
Gruffydd II ap Madog, Lord of Dinas Bran1236 – 126933 yearsending not on recordchild
Madog II ap Gruffydd, Lord of Dinas Bran1269 – 12778 yearsending not on recordchild
Llywelyn Fychan ap Gruffudd1282 – 1282under a yearkilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own article

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1160 – 1282. Median reign 31 years. 0 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

11701180119012001210

1,300 km² in 1170, 1,200 km² in 1210; at its largest 1,300 km² in 1170. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Coat of arms of Powys Fadog
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Powys Fadog · CC BY-SA 3.0 · AlexD
  • Flag of Powys Fadog
    flag, undatedFlag of Powys Fadog · CC BY-SA 3.0 · AlexD

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood117 years

    stood longer than 50% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held1,300 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 3% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median31 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 85% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record5

    has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Kingdom of Powys · Linked · 450 – 1160Kingdom of PowysWales · In the article · 450 · “The principality's first prince was Gruffydd Maelor I, and its last sovereign prince was Madog II ap Gruffydd, following the Conquest of Wales by king Edward …”WalesNorthern Powys · 1160 – 1277Northern Powys60080010001200
in the articlelinked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 117

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q2564694 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.