Gwgon ap Meurig (died ) was a 9th-century

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and

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(i.e., Seisyllwg) in southwest

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. Gwgon was the son of the former king Meurig ap Dyfnwallon and inherited the realm on the death of his father. Gwgon's sister Angharad married

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. Gwgon is recorded by the

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as drowning around 871.. Annals of Wales (A text). The Chronicle of the Princes places his death in the entry for 870 and says he drowned crossing the River Llychwr in Gower while fighting Viking invaders.''Archaeologia Cambrensis'': "Chronicle of the Princes"
p. 15
Accessed 27 Feb 2013. Contrary to Welsh law, rule was then reported to have passed to Angharad's son Cadell as a subordinate king to his father.

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