Bleddyn ap Cynfyn
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (1025? - † 1075) was a king of Gwynedd and Powys.
Bleddyn was the son of Cynfyn ap Gwerstan which belonged to the royal family of Powys. To died of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, sovereign of all the Wales, killed by its own men after being beaten by Harold Godwinson in 1063, Bleddyn and its brother Rhiwallon were subjected to Harold and accepted from him Gwynedd and Powys. In 1066 took place the Bataille of Hastings which showed the death of Harold II, the end of the line saxonne of the Kings d' Angleterre and the beginning of the conquest Norman of England by William the Conqueror. In 1067, Bleddyn and Rhiwallon linked with the mercian Eadric the Savage to attack the Norman ones with Hereford, then in 1068 were combined to the baron Edwin de Mercie and to the baron Morcar de Northumbrie.
Bleddyn had to be defended against two of wire of Gruffyd ap Llywelyn, but could demolish them with the battle of Mechain, in 1070. One died during the battle, the other of cold. At the time of this battle, Rhiwallon found to him also death and Bleddyn reigned consequently only on Gwynedd and Powys until its death. It was killed by a coalition fomented by Rhys ab Owain and the noble ones of Ystrad Tywi in the south of Wales. This murder shocked Wales. According to the Gross there Tywysogion, Bleddyn would have been leading benevolent and would have updated the code of laws of Howell the Good.
As the wire of Bleddyn were still too young, it was his/her cousin Trahaearn ap Caradog who succeeded to him.
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