Person

Rhys ab Owain

d. 1078 · 11th century

Rhys ab Owain was king of Deheubarth in south-west Wales in the 1070s. In 1075 he killed Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of Gwynedd and Powys, an act Welsh chroniclers condemned. In 1078 he was defeated at the Battle of Gwaun Caron by Bleddyn's kinsman Trahaearn ap Caradog and was killed later that year.

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