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Kingdom of Gwent. Gwent ( Old Welsh: Guent) was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk. It existed from the end of Roman rule in Britain in about the 5th century until the Norman invasion of Wales in the 11th century.
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The principality seems to have been part of the ancestral lands of Vortigern of the Paganes.While one of his other lands, Gwrtheyrnion, bore a variation of his name in its medieval Welsh form, Gwent was for a time known as Gwerthefyriwg in honour of his son (using the Welsh version of his Romanised name).
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Gwent was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk. It existed from the end of Roman rule in Britain in about the 5th century until the Norman invasion of Wales in the 11th century. Along with its neighbour Glywyssing, it seems to have had a great deal of cultural continuity with the earlier Silures, keeping their own courts and diocese separate from the rest of Wales ...
Kingdom of Gwent. The Kingdom of Gwent was a medieval Welsh kingdom that existed from the 5th century to 942 and from 974 to 1063, with Caerwent and Porth-is-Coed serving as its historic capitals. Gwent was established after the fall of the Roman Empire, and it consisted of the principalities of Gwent, Gliwissig, Ergyng, and the wealthy cities ...
Mail David. Ynyr Gwent, King of Gwent. (Born c.AD 445) (Latin: Honorius; English: Honorius) Ynyr Gwent was a mid-5th century monarch of the kingdom from which he took his epithet. A late and doubtful tradition makes him a son of Prine Dyfnwal of Dyfed and, therefore, great great grandson of the Emperor Magnus Maximus.
Gwent (Old Welsh: Guent) was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk. It existed from the end of Roman rule in Britain in about the 5th century until the Norman invasion of Wales in the 11th century. Along with its neighbour Glywyssing, it seems to have had a great deal of cultural continuity with the earlier Silures, keeping their own courts and diocese separate from ...
Glywysing is said in medieval Welsh tradition to be named after Glywys, supposedly an early king of the region. In reality, the name probably comes from Glevum, the Roman name for what is now Gloucester, via a Latin name * Glevenses ('people of Glevum') or * Glevensis ('person from Glevum'). Thus the name suggests that the kingdom was named ...
