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    Hywel ap Cadell, commonly known as Hywel Dda, which translates to Howel the Good in English, was a Welsh king who ruled the southern Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth...
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    and, according to tradition, only first codified during the reign of Hywel Dda in the mid-10th century. The earliest surviving manuscripts, however,...
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    Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) (Welsh: Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda) is the local health board of NHS Wales for the west of Wales. Established...
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    sometimes described as the first Welsh parliament, called in 930 by King Hywel Dda to codify the native Welsh laws. Whitland takes its name from its medieval...
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    Liverpool,[which?] Liverpool, England The 14th century book, "Laws of Hywel Dda" (also known as the "Boston Manuscript"), was owned by the Massachusetts...
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  • possibly identical to Hywel Dda Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1170), Welsh poet and military leader Syr Hywel y Fwyall or Sir Hywel ap Gruffudd (fl. 1356–died...
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    Eamont, near Penrith, on 12 July 927, King Constantine II of Alba, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh, and King Owain of Strathclyde (or...
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    earliest Welsh text of the laws of Hywel Dda (Peniarth MS 29). Peniarth 32 is a 15th-century volume of the laws of Hywel Dda. The Peniarth 51 manuscript contains...
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    Rhodri (878–900) Llywelyn ap Merfyn (900–942) Hywel Dda (942–950); usurped from the Aberffraw line Owain ap Hywel (950–986); ruled thereafter by a cadet branch...
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    where he announced plans to reintroduce the traditional Welsh laws of Hywel Dda, establish an independent Welsh church, and build two universities. Owain...
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    Ceredigion, and Brycheiniog. Upon the death of his father King Owain ap Hywel Dda around 988, he also inherited the kingdoms of Gwynedd and Powys, which...
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    Withybush General Hospital (category Hywel Dda University Health Board)
    general hospital in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is managed by Hywel Dda University Health Board. The hospital started life in 1942 as a wartime...
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    Biography. National Library of Wales. Williams, Stephan Joseph (1959). "Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good) (died 950), king and legislator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography...
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    lands whence Cunedda originated. Deheubarth was united around 920 by Hywel Dda out of the territories of Seisyllwg and Dyfed, which had come into his...
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  • The following is a list of currently operating hospitals in Wales. They are sorted by health board or trust. Headquarters: Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital...
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  • all manuscripts known to contain versions of the Cyfraith Hywel first codified by Hywel Dda in the mid 10th century. Black Book of Chirk Peniarth 29 BL...
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  • currency of the medieval Welsh kingdoms such as Gwynedd and Deheubarth. Hywel Dda was the only ruler recorded as minting his own proper coins; however,...
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    Maredudd ab Owain, king of Deheubarth, and the great-great-grandson of Hywel Dda. Gruffydd was the first and only Welsh king to unite all of Wales albeit...
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  • witnesses the destruction of pagan monuments before learning that King Hywel Dda has submitted to Aethelstan after his son was taken hostage. Uhtred then...
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    jointly with Stephen J. Williams Cyfreithiau Hywel Dda yn ôl Llyfr Blegywryd, a text on Cyfraith Hywel, the medieval Welsh law), modern Greek, and Portuguese...
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    the Welsh name Hywel. It originates in a dynasty of kings in Wales and Brittany in the 9th and 10th centuries, most notably king Hywel Dda ("Howel the Good")...
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    Whitland around 930 by Hywel Dda, king of most of Wales between 942 and his death in 950. The 'law of Hywel Dda' (Welsh: Cyfraith Hywel), as it became known...
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    the National Assembly for Wales). It is named after the medieval king Hywel Dda (Howell the Good), King of Deheubarth in South West Wales. The building...
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  • Rhodri ap Hywel (died 964) was a King of Deheubarth in South Wales, and son of Hywel Dda. On Hywel's death in 950 Deheubarth was shared between Rhodri...
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  • Owain ap Hywel (died c. 988) was king of Deheubarth in south Wales and probably also controlled Powys. Owain was one of the three sons of King Hywel the Good...
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  • and great-grandson of Hywel Dda. When the previous king, Rhydderch ap Iestyn, who had usurped the throne, died in 1033 Hywel became king of Deheubarth,...
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    Many members of this family were influential in Welsh history, such as Hywel Dda, who codified Welsh law under his rule, and achieved the important title...
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    became Wales developed their own system of law, first codified by Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good; reigned 942–950) when he was king of most of present-day...
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    century Seisyllwg became the centre of power for Hywel Dda, who came to rule most of Wales. In 920 Hywel merged Seisyllwg with the Kingdom of Dyfed to form...
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    Cyfraith Hywel or "Laws of Hywel Dda" was a system of medieval Welsh Law that was exercised in Wales, after being codified by the King of Wales, Hywel Dda who...
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