Brochwel ap Cyngen (died c. 560), better known as Brochwel Ysgrithrog was a king of the Kingdom of Powys in east Wales. The unusual nickname Ysgithrog means "of the canine teeth". The Kingdom of Powys was one of several kingdoms that ruled a part of modern Wales. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English, Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² Ethnicity: 97. ...
Brochwel was the son of Cyngen and father to Cynan Garwyn and Saint Tysilio, the founder of the old church at Meifod. He is said to have had a court at Pengwern on the site of modern Shrewsbury. Bede refers to a "Brochmail" involved in the battle of Chester in c. 613, but this is clearly not Brochwel as his grandson Selyf ap Cynan was king of Powys at this time. References to him as "Brochfael" are probably due to a mistaken identification with the person referred to by Bede. Meifod is a village 7 miles north-west of Welshpool in mid Wales on the A495 road. ... Pengwern is the name of the supposed capital of the ancient Welsh Kingdom of Powys (today the modern day county of Powys in Wales), which extended into modern day England. ... Map sources for Shrewsbury at grid reference SJ4912 Porthill Bridge crossing the Severn at Shrewsbury Shrewsburys Old Market Hall and The Square Market Street, behind the Old Market Hall, with the Music Hall on the left Shrewsbury (pronounced either /ˈʃɹuËzbɹiË/ or /ˈʃɹəʊzbɹiË/) is a town of... Bede depicted in an early medieval manuscript Depiction of Bede from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 Bede (Latin Beda), also known as Saint Bede or, more commonly, the Venerable Bede (ca. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in the northwestern England, close to the border with Wales. ... Events Clotaire II reunites the Frankish kingdoms by ordering the murder of Sigebert II. Saint Columbanus founds the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy. ...
Little is recorded of the events of Brochwel's reign, but Powys was frequently called "the land of Brochwel" by later poets.
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John Edward Lloyd (1911) A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest (Longmans, Green & Co.) Sir John Edward Lloyd (who wrote as J E Lloyd) (1861-1947) was Wales greatest historian, the author of the first serious history of the countrys formative years, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911). ...
Brochwel became "the greatest of the princes of the line of Vortigern, Cadeyrn and Cadell.
It was under the protection of Brochwel Ysgythrog that the hierarchy of the British Church assembled in conference to give an answer to Augustin, an emissary from Rome.
Brochwel escaped with a small band of 50 men who managed to hold the passage of the Dee until the arrival of help, when in their turn the armies of Aethelfrith were put to flight with equal slaughter.
Canon Thomas has chosen to reflect on the saints of Powys and their princely rulers, from BrochwelYsgithrog in the sixth century down to Owain Glyndwr, through the medium of contemporary poets who commemorated both saints and princes.
This was due to the unfortunate situation of the kingdom of Powys between the hammer of the Mercians and later the Normans and the anvil of other ambitious Welsh princes of Gwynedd and Deheubarth.
The line of Brochwel ruled Powys for centuries though cursed by the bad-tempered St Beuno, who foretold they would eventually lose their land entirely, as came true, even though the saint cancelled his curse.
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