According to Brut y Tywysogion:

The chronicler of Brut y Tywysogion records for 1197:

Brut y Tywysogion: Peniarth MS. 20.

Geoffrey's story spread widely, appearing in more and less elaborate form in adaptations of his work such as Wace's Norman French Roman de Brut, Layamon's Middle English Brut, and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd.

* The first entry is made in the Welsh chronicle Brut y Tywysogion.

In the 12th century and the 13th century, this title evolved into Prince of Wales ( see Brut y Tywysogion ).

According to the chronicle Brut y Tywysogion, Godfrey Haroldson carried off two thousand captives from Anglesey in 987, and the king of Gwynedd, Maredudd ab Owain is reported to have redeemed many of his subjects from slavery by paying the Danes a large ransom.

* Brut y Tywysogyon or The Chronicle of the Princes.

, and Brut y Tywysogion uses the forms Kaerenarvon and Caerenarvon.

In 1211 John invaded Gwynedd with the aid of almost all the other Welsh princes, planning according to Brut y Tywysogion " to dispossess Llywelyn and destroy him utterly ".

The Brut y Tywysogion chronicler commented: " that year William de Breos the Younger, lord of Brycheiniog, was hanged by the lord Llywelyn in Gwynedd, after he had been caught in Llywelyn's chamber with the king of England's daughter, Llywelyn's wife ".

In 1240 the chronicler of Brut y Tywysogion records: " the lord Llywelyn ap Iorwerth son of Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Wales, a second Achilles, died having taken on the habit of religion at Aberconwy, and was buried honourably.

Brut y Tywysogion: Peniarth MS. 20.

The annalist writing Brut y Tywysogion recorded his death " after innumerable victories, and unconquered from his youth ".

A Welsh tradition in the Brut y Tywysogion claimed that in 890: " he men of Strathclyde, those that refused to unite with the English, had to depart from their country and go into Gwynedd.

* The Rolls edition of the Brut y Tywyssogion ( pdf ) at Stanford University Library

The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brut y Brenhinedd, associate him with Ynys Afallach, which is substituted as the Welsh name for Geoffrey's Insula Avalonsis ( Island of Avalon ), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall " apple tree " ( modern Welsh afal " apple ", afalllen " apple tree " cf.

Once attributed to Saint Tysilio ( died 640 ), this Chronicle of the Kings of Britain was written c. 1500 as an amalagam of earlier versions of the Brut y Brenhinedd, a derivative of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

It is believed that it is at Strata Florida the most important primary historical source for early Welsh history, the Brut y Tywysogion, was compiled.

One of several Middle Welsh adaptations was called the Brut y Brenhinedd (" Chronicle of the Kings ").

Gruffudd died in his bed, old and blind, in 1137 and was mourned by the annalist of Brut y Tywysogion as the head and king and defender and pacifier of all Wales.

Eleanor died in childbirth on 19 June 1282 ( see The chronicle of Bury St Edmunds, 74-76 ) at the royal home Abergwyngregyn, on the north coast of Gwynedd ; her body was carried across the Lafan Sands to the Franciscan Friary of Llanfaes, Anglesey ( see Brut y Tywysogion, Peniarth MS20, 223 ; Peniarth MS20Tr, 117 ).

All this was done, as the Brut y Tywysogion explained regarding Dafydd " because he thought he could hold his territory in peace thereby ", but it proved insufficient.

The medieval Welsh chronicle Brut y Tywysogion mentions many battles in southwest Wales and sackings of Menevia ( St David's ) in the pre-Norman period.

The earliest recorded form of the place name Criccieth in Welsh is found in Brut y Tywysogion where reference is made to the imprisonment of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn in the ' castle of Cruceith ( Middle Welsh orthography: Kastell Krukeith ).

Notable buildings in the town include a ruined 13th-century castle, first mentioned in Brut y Tywysogion in 1215, when it was seized by Llewelyn the Great ().

Brut y Tywysogion states that the church was sacked by Vikings in 963, and during the twelfth century it was the subject of a memorable poem by Llywelyn Fardd ( I ).

The earliest surviving full account of Madoc's voyage, as the first to make the claim that Madoc had come to America, appears in Humphrey Llwyd 1559 Cronica Walliae, an English adaptation of the Brut y Tywysogion.

Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was killed in 1063, by his own men according to Brut y Tywysogion.

Part of the Welsh version of Brut y Tywysogion found in the Red Book of Hergest

The district is referenced in the song " St Pauli " by Art Brut, which also contains the lyrics " Punk rock ist nicht tot " (" punk rock is not dead ").

* Marvin, Julia, The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation ( 2006 ).

* Marvin, Julia, The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation ( 2006 ).

The first part of Langtoft's Chronicle is translated from Wace's Roman de Brut, and the second part is drawn from a number of sources, including Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum.

The Roman de Brut became the basis, in turn, for Layamon's Brut, an alliterative Middle English poem, and Piers Langtoft's Chronicle.

The purpose of the meeting was recorded in the Brut Chronicle: " So came Sir Henry of Beaumont to Kyng Edward of Engeland and praiede him, in way of charitie, that he wolde grant of his grace unto Sir Edward Balliol that he moste safliche gone bi land from Sandall for to conquere his ritz heritage in Scotland.

Mannyng's Chronicle, supposedly completed in 1338, translates Wace's Roman de Brut for British history from the Anglo-Norman, before translating Piers Langtoft's ( Peter of Langtoft ) Chronicle for English and post-Conquest history .< sup id =" fn_2_back "> 2 </ sup >

Brut y Tywysogion ( Chronicle of the Princes ) are variant Welsh translation of a Latin original annales telling the history of Wales from the seventh century to the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1282.

Brut y Brenhinedd ( Chronicle of the Kings ) is the name given to a number of texts that ultimately trace their origins back to translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136 ).

* Brut y Tywysogion ( Chronicle of the Princes ), a Welsh mediaeval chronicle

* Brut y Brenhinedd ( Chronicle of the Kings ), a Welsh mediaeval chronicle

* The Brut Chronicle, a chronicle printed in English by William Caxton as the Chronicles of England in 1480