Overstatement of power in South Wales
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The reports here, being based entirely it seems on JE Lloyd, appears to overstate Gruffydd's powerbase in South Wales? Some corroboration would be good, particularly of the claim that Gruffydd was recognised as King of Wales by the English Crown, seems highly unlikely. I can imagine him recognised as ruler of Wales but paying homage to England though. Some elucidation please? Pbhj (talk) 15:17, 20 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
- Hello Pbhj! thank's for your review! I am not sure why a successful Welsh ruler who expanded the Welsh border into England would not have been recognized as king, especially when the most powerful Anglo-Saxon allies of Mercia-Anglia. Well, in the section on Conquest of South Wales narrates Gruffydd ap Llywelyn's conquest of Ceredigion by 1044, then his defeat of the Dinefwr prince of Deheubarth in 1044. However, the text shows that Gruffydd didn't take S. Wales in full intil 1055
"In 1055 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn defeated and killed his southern rival Gruffydd ap Rhydderch and took possession of Deheubarth, later driving out Meurig ap Hywel and Cadwagan ap Hywel of Gwent, and so becoming master over the whole of Wales."
- Additionally, in the section Wars with England and King of Wales illustrate how he allied with Mercia and became King of Wales, a mediazed king like that of the King of Scots at that periode. The text does state that after the negociations between Gruffydd and the English crown, he went from Chepstow to Glouchester where the treaty was signed and the terms preformed. Ill look towards getting other sources for corroboration.♦Drachenfyre♦·Talk 06:21, 4 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
