Descendants of Nowy

Generation No. 1

1.  ARTHWYR¹¹ died Unknown.

Notes for ARTHWYR:

[Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 136.]

[EC9] ARTHWYR Dyfed, fl 590s.
The successor of PEDR, Arthwyr is listed amongst the genealogy of Dyfed. The timing would make him a contemporary of ARTHWYR of Gwent and it is possible (though unlikely) that the two were one and the same, and that Arthwyr (one of the candidates for the real King ARTHUR) had extended his kingdom to cover all of South Wales and into Dyfed. If this were so he would have displaced the dynasty of Eochaid, and this is not recorded. Moreover the Arhwyr of Gwent is firmly recorded as the son of MEURIG. Arthwyr of Dyfed was a tyrannical ruler and it is memories of him that created the darker side of the legendary Arthur.

Reign: 590, Ruler of Dyfed²

Child of ARTHWYR is:

2.                i.    NOWY² AP ARTHWYR, d. Unknown.

Generation No. 2

2.  NOWY² AP ARTHWYR (ARTHWYR¹)³ died Unknown.

Notes for NOWY AP ARTHWYR:

[Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 137.]

[EC10] NOWY or NOE Dyfed, fl 610s.
The king-lists of Dyfed show that ARTHWYR was succeeded by Nowy, or Noah. The legendary ARTHUR also had a son called Nowy who died fighting in the West. Nowy was a strongly religious king; he bestowed much land to the church. The exact length of his reign is uncertain, but it is possible he survived well into the 600s. His daughter, Sanan, was the mother of ELISEDD of Powys, who lived in the early 700s.

Reign: 610, Ruler of Dyfed⁴

Child of NOWY AP ARTHWYR is:

3.                i.    SANAN³ VERCH NOWY, d. Unknown.

Generation No. 3

3.  SANAN³ VERCH NOWY (NOWY² AP ARTHWYR, ARTHWYR¹)⁵ died Unknown.  She married GWYLOG AP BELI⁵, son of BELI AP EILUDD.  He died Unknown.

Notes for GWYLOG AP BELI:

[Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 154.]

[EE11] GWYLOG Powys, dates uncertain (fl 700s?).
Gwylog is shown both as the father of ELISEDD who lived about 725 and as the son of BELI who lived about 620, and these dates are incompatible. Gwylog also married Sanan, the daughter of NOWY of Dyfed, which would place Gwylog back around the period 620 or even earlier. clearly the genealogies are at fault. This is not surprising. The period from the Battle of Chester in 613 to the recovery of the lands of Powys under Elisedd in 725 was a dark age for the Welsh when many were driven into exile by the Northumbrians and Mercians, apart from the brief period of triumph of CYNDDYLAN who does not feature anywhere in the genealogies. We must conclude that at least two generations of Powys' rulers have been lost and that during these years the land was probably dominated by the rulers of Gwynedd.

Reign: 700, Ruler of Powys⁵

Child of SANAN VERCH NOWY and GWYLOG AP BELI is:

                   i.    ELISEDD⁴ AP GWYLOG, d. Unknown.

Endnotes

1.  Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 151.

2.  Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 134.

3.  Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 151.

4.  Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 134.

5.  Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens,  (Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1998), pg. 151.

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