Aergol Longhand (

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: ''Aergol Lawhir''; c. 437 c. 515) was a legendary king of

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and son and heir of King

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. His name is the Welsh form of the Latin

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, just as his father's 'name' is the Cambrian form of "

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". Some sources claim he was born around 437. His court was at Lis Castell (

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) near Din Bych (

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); there may have been another at Castell Argoel (probably Caeth Argoel) in Dyfed, which was presumably named in his honor.

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. ''

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''. Oxford Univ., 1909. Accessed 31 Jan 2013. He was a patron of the church at

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and the bishops of

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Saints

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and

Euddogwy Saint Oudoceus (Latin) or Euddogwy ( Welsh) (c.536–c.615 or 625) is generally known as the third Bishop of Llandaff in South Wales. In reality he was probably a 7th-century bishop at Llandeilo Fawr. Wendy Davies puts his episcopal reign b ...

. He received Euddogwy's father King

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after the latter was expelled from his land and was remembered by

Gildas Gildas (English pronunciation: , Breton language, Breton: ''Gweltaz''; ) — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and ''Gildas Sapiens'' (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century Britons (h ...

as a "good king". Aergol was known to be an enemy of King

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of Powys and they clashed at

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. He possibly conquered the

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around the late 400s which was why he was given the name “Long-Hand.”

References

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