Kingdom of Gwynedd (Guynet)

Migration of Northern Europeans to the British Isles during the first millennium,  post-Roman Empire.  Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and Vikings (Wikipedia links used). Wales , first called  Cambria , and Great Britain , known as  Albion . The countries were once divided into many so-called petty Kingdoms . For example,  Rhos and Edeirnion  were before the merging of Gwynedd with other Kingdoms during the 5th century AD. During this period, the Saxon territories in  England  were first established during the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons . They were a religiously Pagan group of tribes from the European North Sea who had invaded the  British Isles  following the departure of the Roman legions after four centuries of controlling the Brittonic people and mining their lands. This was an era when the borders of Wales were once much more than they are today. The territories were further east and north than now within what is to...

The Viking invasions of Wales, it was named the Cambro-Norse era spanning the years 850s to 1100s. The emergence of the Royal House of Aberffraw and the prequel to the Norman invasion of the British Isles (Wikipedia articles linked). The Cambro-Norse (Welsh-Scandinavian) era began with the Viking invasion of the British Isles from the 9th century onwards for 200 years. The medieval invasive forces were from northern Scandinavia and they raided and pillaged for centuries, this was after the Anglo-Saxons invaded in the 5th century continuously by integrating into English Kingdoms. By the 850s, the Kingdoms of Gwynedd and Powys in North Wales had been subjugated by the English Kingdom of Mercia aided by the Saxons for a century. However, everything was about to change. By the decade of the 870s, the Second Dynasty of Gwynedd as the Royal House of Aberffraw was emerging as a new dynasty in Gwynedd. Rhodri the Great (Welsh: Mawr) was the King of Wales and the King of the Britons. He had...