Ieuaf () usually known as Idwal ap Idwal (), (died 988), to distinguish him from his father

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, was joint

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in northern

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from 950 to 969 with his brother

Iago ab Idwal Iago ab Idwal (fl. 942-979) was a King of Gwynedd (reigned 950–979) and possibly Powys. Iago was the son of the previous King Idwal Foel who had inherited the throne of Gwynedd on the death of his father Anarawd ap Rhodri in 916. Iago's p ...

. He possibly also ruled

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for some time. Ieuaf was a son of King

(Idwal the Bald), who had become King of Gwynedd from 916 on the death of his father

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. Ieuaf's paternal great grandparents were

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, King of Gwynedd and Angharad ferch Meurig of Ceredigion. Upon his father Idwal's death in battle against the

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in 942, he and his brother

were driven from their kingdom by their uncle

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, who took the crown for himself. On Hywel's death in 950, Ieuaf and Iago were able to drive out Hywel's sons, their cousins, at the Battle of Carno and reclaim the kingdom. However, fighting continued, with the brothers raiding as far south as

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in 952 and their cousins raiding as far north as the Conwy valley in 954. The southern princes were finally defeated at the Battle of Llanrwst and chased back to

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. Having won, the brothers then began to quarrel among themselves. Iago took Ieuaf prisoner in 969, and Ieuaf played no further role in Gwynedd. Some sources indicated Ieuaf was imprisoned, (historian

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stated that Ieuaf remained in captivity until his death in 988), others that he was executed on his brother's orders. Which ever was the case, Iago ruled for the best part of another decade with a brief hiatus in 974 when his nephew, Ieuaf's son and heir Hywel ab Ieuaf invaded and deposed him for a time.

Hywel ap Ieuaf Hywel ap Ieuaf (died 985) was a King of Gwynedd in North West Wales from 979 to 985. Hywel was the son of Ieuaf who had ruled Gwynedd jointly with his brother Iago ab Idwal until 969. In that year the sons of Idwal quarrelled and Iago took ...

fully usurped his uncle in 979 and ruled as King of Gwynedd until his death in 985, when his brother Cadwallon ab Ieuaf briefly took his place until his death the following year.

Children

* Cadwallon ab Ieuaf * Meurig ap Ieuaf

References

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