* Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal, king of Gwynedd in Wales

* Cadell ap Rhodri, Prince of Seisyllwg

* Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal, king of Gwynedd in Wales

* Anarawd ap Rhodri defeats the Mercians in a battle described as " God's vengeance for Rhodri ", who had been killed in battle a few years earlier.

Owain was married twice, first to Gwladus ferch Llywarch ap Trahaearn, by whom he had two sons, Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd and Iorwerth Drwyndwn, the father of Llywelyn the Great, then to Cristin, by whom he had three sons including Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd.

* Anarawd ap Rhodri, King of Gwynedd

Alfred the Great, for example, had sponsored the confirmation of Christian Welsh king Anarawd ap Rhodri.

As a descendant of Rhodri Mawr, Gruffudd ap Cynan was a senior member of the princely house of Aberffraw.

* Hywel Dda ap Cadell 909-950 ( established the Dinefwr branch of descendants of Rhodri the Great )

* Rhodri ap Hywel 950-953

The House of Cunedda-as the direct descendants of Cunedda are known-eventually expired in the male line in 825 upon the death of Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog and, as Sir John Edward Lloyd put it, " a stranger possessed the throne of Gwynedd.

All sources agree that he was the son of Esyllt, heiress and niece of the aforementioned Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, last of the House of Cunedda, and that his male line went back to the Men of the North, to Llywarch Hen, a first cousin of Urien Rheged and thus a direct descendant of Coel Hen.

Rhodri's eldest son Anarawd ap Rhodri inherited Gwynedd and would firmly establish the princely House of Aberffraw that would come to rule Gwynedd with but a few interruptions until 1283.

In The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan, written in the late 12th century, the family asserted its rights as the senior line of descendants from Rhodri the Great who had conquered most of Wales during his lifetime.

Additionally, Owain I commissioned the Life of Gruffydd ap Cynan, the biography of his father in which Owain firmly asserted his primacy over other Welsh rulers by " absolute right through decent " from Rhodri the Great, according to Davies.

It seems that Iorwerth was injured badly enough to be ruled out of the succession ( he was to die in 1174 ), leaving Dafydd as the leading figure in this cabal, which included his brother Rhodri as well as his half brother Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd and the nephews of another half brother Cynan ab Owain, namely Gruffudd ap Cynan and Maredudd ap Cynan.

Merfyn ap Rhodri ( 878 – 900 )

Anarawd ap Rhodri inflicted a heavy defeat on Mercians at Conway in north Wales in 881.

Rhys ap Tewdwr ( before 1065 – 1093 ) was a Prince of Deheubarth in south-west Wales and member of the Dinefwr dynasty, a branch descended from Rhodri the Great.

He was the son of King Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon ( reigned c. 655 – 682 ) and the father of King Rhodri Molwynog ( died 754 ).

Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal () was King of Gwynedd ( reigned?

br: Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal

Owain then designated Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd as his successor, but after his death Hywel was first driven to seek refuge in Ireland by Cristina's sons, Dafydd and Rhodri, then killed at the battle of Pentraeth when he returned with an Irish army.

Hywel Rhodri Morgan ( born 29 September 1939 ) is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009.

Born in Cardiff, Hywel Rhodri Morgan is the son of Professor T. J. Morgan and the brother of the historian, Prys Morgan.

The House of Aberffraw was displaced in 942 by Hywel Dda, a junior descendant of Rhodri Mawr and the King of Deheubarth.

At his death in 1170, a bloody dispute broke out between his heir Hywel the Poet-Prince and Owain's younger sons Maelgwn, Rhodri, and led by Dafydd, all three the sons of the Princess-Dowager Cristen.

From time to time, rulers such as Hywel Dda and Rhodri the Great managed to unify many of the kingdoms, but their lands were divided on their deaths.

Together, Dafydd and Rhodri attacked and killed their brother Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd that same year.

The genealogy of Jesus College MS. 20 gives Hywel as the son of Caradog ap Meirion, while it gives Cynan as the son of Rhodri Molwynog, as does the Harleian genealogies.

The dowager princess plotted to have her eldest son Dafydd usurp the Throne of Gwynedd from Hywel, and with Gwynedd divided between Dafydd and her other sons Rhodri and Cynan.

Rhodri and his brother Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, Owain's legitimate sons by his wife Cristina, defeated and killed their half brother Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd at Pentraeth that year.

* Rhodri Mawr (' the Great ') becomes king of Gwynedd.

* Rhodri Mawr, king of Wales

The first to rule a considerable part of Wales was Rhodri Mawr ( Rhodri The Great ), originally king of Gwynedd during the 9th century, who was able to extend his rule to Powys and Ceredigion.

Rhodri Mawr ( meaning Rhodri the Great ) ( 844-878 ), son of Merfyn Frych and Nest ferch Cadell, was able to add Powys to his realm after its king ( his maternal uncle ) died on pilgrimage to Rome in 855.

Idwal, who fathered the later king Rhodri Molwynog, may have been his successor.

As the records are quite sparse in this era, an intervening king or kings between Rhodri and Caradog is not precluded.

This family have patrilinear descent from Rhodri Mawr through Anarawd, his eldest son, and Owain Gwynedd ( king of Gwynedd c. 1137-1170 ) to the present day.

Gruffydd's wife, Senena ( possibly a daughter of Caradoc ap Thomas of Anglesey ), agreed to pay Henry 600 marks for the release of her husband and their eldest son, Owain, and to hand over her two youngest sons, Dafydd and Rhodri, to the king as hostages to ensure that she kept her part of the bargain.

From the successes of Rhodri and the seniority of Anarawd among his sons the Aberffraw family claimed primacy over all other Welsh lords including the powerful kings of Powys and Deheubarth.