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Hywel Dda, ap Cadell

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Hywel Dda, ap Cadell [W hywell, eminent, prominent; dda, good]. Historical (d. 950) Welsh king, grandson of Rhodri Mawr, famed for establishing a native system of laws, counterparts of the Irish Brehon Laws. The laws survive in seventy manuscripts, most dating from before the 16th century, when they were still in practice. Hywel appears to have been the only Welsh king to strike coins bearing his own image.

Bibliography

See Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales, ed. Aneurin Owen (2 vols., London, 1841, 1900; 1983);
Meville Richards , The Laws of Hywel Dda (The Book of Blegywryd) (Liverpool, 1954).

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Hywel Dda

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Hywel Dda , or Howel the Good, d. 950?, king of Wales. He brought much of Wales under a single rule and is credited with the codification of Welsh laws. The earliest extant texts of the Laws of Hywel Dda date from the 13th cent. and provide evidence of a developing code of law; they are valuable sources for social and legal history.

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