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Britain's Royal Roman Family
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2nd Powys Royal Dynasty
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Men Descended from Tudwal Gloff
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15 Noble Tribes of Gwynedd
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Glast and the Glastening
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The Men of Collwyn ap Tangno of Lleyn
Edwin of Tegeingl and his Family
Ednowain Bendew in Welsh pedigrees
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Idnerth Benfras of Maesbrook
Tudor Trefor and his Family
Trahaearn ap Caradog of Arwystli
The Family of Trahaearn ap Caradog
Cadafael Ynfyd of Cydewain
Maredudd ap Owain, King of Deheubarth
Sandde Hardd of Mortyn
The Floruit of Einion ap Seisyllt
The 5 Dafydd Llwyds of Llanwrin Parish
Cowryd ap Cadfan of Dyffryn Clwyd
Osbwrn Wyddel of Cors Gedol
Bradwen of Llys Bradwen in Meirionydd
Who Was Sir Robert Pounderling?
Sir Aaron ap Rhys
Eidio Wyllt - What Was His Birthname?
Ifor Bach, Lord of Senghenydd
Ancestors and Children of the Lord Rhys
The Center for the Study of Ancient Wales is a non-profit foundation which owns an extensive library of materials related to the history and peoples of Ancient Wales.  It conducts ongoing research on a number of subjects, hoping to shed more light on the people who inhabited the land now called Wales from about 400 to 1300.
 
CAUTION: The papers published on this site are a "work-in-progress"; as additional information is developed in our research, we will make any necessary emendations to our older papers to reflect our latest beliefs about the data presented.  Anyone using our findings to aid their own research should check to be sure they have the latest version.

OUR MOST RECENT ADDITIONS

Among the issues we have recently researched are:
 
 
      *  Do the legends and old pedigrees of Maxen Wledig all refer to a single man?
 
      *  Which families were derived from Anwn Dynod ap Maxen, and do they include the Hael cousins?
 
      *  Was Vortigern the founder of the Royal Family of Powys which reigned over 600 years?
 
      Did Cyngen ap Cadell, King of Powys in the first quarter of the ninth century, have any sons to succeed him? 
 
      *  Are the stories which claim Rhodri Mawr inherited Powys from his mother Nest, a sister of Cyngen ap Cadell, actually true?
 
      *  Who ruled Powys during the years 823-1000 when it is mostly absent from the accounts of historians?
      
      *  What was the ancestry of King Gruffudd ap Llewelyn, and which kingdom did he first rule over?
 
     *  Was the Gwynedd dynasty from the sixth to the ninth centuries actually descended from Maelgwn Gwynedd?
 
       Other projects underway include a fresh look at all the old sources to create major family pedigrees which are chronologically stable both standing alone and when correlated with those families connected by marriage.
 
        Particular emphasis is given to pedigrees which are cited extensively on modern family websites which contain palpably false information about the ancestry of various well-known men of ancient Wales.  Other cases selected for study are family patriarchs whose ancestry is unrecorded but whose known land-holdings may provide clues to their identity.
 
        

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The Center's library in Jefferson, Texas

If you share an interest in any of these subjects or have any comments to offer that might aid our work, or questions concerning your own work involving early Welsh families, you are invited to communicate with us at:
                                        CSAWalesTX@aol.com
 
Our President and principal researcher is Darrell Wolcott.  He is the author of a research paper which is published on the Vortigern Studies website at:

Vortigern and the Powys Dynasty