Kingdom of Gwynedd (Guynet)

The establishment of The Kingdom of Gwynedd (Venedotia) , circa 401, by Cunedda Wledig (Wikipedia links used) After the Roman occupation (c. 400s), the original tribal boundaries of Wales were changed. This was when tribal Wales was divided into four kingdoms: The Kingdom of Gwynedd (north), The Kingdom of Powys (east), The Kingdom of Gwent (south), and The Kingdom of Dyfed (west). Of the original 4 Welsh Kingdoms, Gwynedd's Mona (Anglesey) settlement of Aberffraw was the location of the Princes of Wales' principal seat.   Image of the main  Kingdoms of Wales  (Gwynedd north-west), courtesy of Wiki Commons, attributed to Notuncurious. Historically, the Welsh Royal Family of Aberffraw descended from sub-Roman Britain and the Kingdom of Gwynedd (Medieval Latin: Venedotia). The founding member and ancestor of the Kings of Gwynedd was  Cunedda Wledig (386-470) of the House of Gwynedd  also known as the First Dynasty of Gwynedd. He was a Roman soldi...

Closure of the Welsh Kingdoms reigned by Kings, the end of the Kingdom of Gwynedd (401-1283), the final ruling Kingdom in Wales, and the ending of the Royal House of Aberffraw (Wikipedia articles linked). "It took until 1283, when Edward I conquered Gwynedd, for the last part of Roman Britain to fall. Indeed, a strong case can be made for Gwynedd as the very last part of the entire Roman Empire, east and west, to fall to the barbarians."  Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins . Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, attributed to  Fry1989 , four lions passant guardant, the  flag of Gwynedd . The Kingdom of Gwynedd started as a post-Roman defensive border to protect the British Celts from invading Irish and Picts in the 5th century. The Kings of Gwynedd would go on to thrive in society for nearly a millennium. They expanded their borders far from the original kingdom of the northwest of Wales to conquer all of Wales as a territory today, from their family seat of Aberffraw on Angle...