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    Rheged (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈr̥ɛɡɛd]) was one of the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd ('Old North'), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern...
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  • Rhèges (French pronunciation: [ʁɛʒ]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. Communes of the Aube department "Répertoire national...
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    House of Rheged (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈr̥ɛɡɛd]) or the House of Rhun was an informal royal dynasty who ruled in the brittonic Kingdom of Rheged. The line...
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    Urien (redirect from Urien Rheged)
    Cynfarch Oer (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɨ̞riɛn ap ˈkənvarχ oːɨ̯r]) or Urien Rheged (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɨ̞riɛn ˈr̥ɛɡɛd], Old Welsh: Urbgen or Urbagen, Old...
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    Yrechwydd (A Song for Urien Rheged) XXXIII Eg gorffowys (A Song for Urien Rheged) XXXIV Bei Lleas Vryan (A Song for Urien Rheged) XXXV "Gweith Argoet Llwyfein"("The...
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    composed by a historical Taliesin. The bulk of this work praises King Urien of Rheged and his son Owain mab Urien, although several of the poems indicate that...
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  • Owain mab Urien (category Monarchs of Rheged)
    Urien (Middle Welsh Owein) (died c. 595) was the son of Urien, king of Rheged c. 590, and fought with his father against the Angles of Bernicia. The historical...
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    In the Early Middle Ages parts of the region successively belonged to Rheged, Northumbria, and Strathclyde, and there was also a Viking presence. It...
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  • Urien") is a figure of Welsh Arthurian legend. She is the daughter of Urien Rheged by Modron, and twin sister to Owain. Morfydd appears in the Welsh Triads...
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  • Meirchion Gul (category Monarchs of Rheged)
    Meirchion Gul was probably a late 5th-century king of Rheged, a Brythonic realm in the area of Sub-Roman Britain known as the Hen Ogledd (in the North...
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    Medieval Welsh literature as "South Rheged" or "Argoed" (opposite the wood), it remains unproven as the kingdom of Rheged's boundaries have not been identified...
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    It expanded south to the Cumbrian Mountains, into the former lands of Rheged. The neighbouring Anglo-Saxons called this enlarged kingdom Cumbraland....
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    personified as dragons include Maelgwn Gwynedd, Mynyddog Mwynfawr and Urien Rheged. Later Welsh "dragons" include Owain Gwynedd, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and Owain...
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    ancestry is recorded in the Bonedd y Saint. His father, Owain was a King of Rheged. His maternal grandfather, Lleuddun, was probably a King of the Gododdin;...
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    Rheged seems to have been one of these members of the Old North kingdoms that emerged during this period of intertribal warfare. The extent of Rheged...
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    of this stronghold stood high [...], Arthur was killed [there] by men of Rheged, the British kingdom centred on Penrith." Flint Johnson disagrees with Breeze's...
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  • Battle of Alclud Ford took place between the post-Roman Celtic Britons of Rheged and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Bernicia around c. 580CE. The fighting may...
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    as well as being first cousins of Urien Rheged, (c. 550 – c. 590) so may have been associated with the Rheged area. The sources that mention the battle...
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    Hen Ogledd Kingdoms or Territories Alt Clut Bryneich Deifr Elfed Gododdin Rheged Important Places Calchfynydd Eidyn Manaw Gododdin Arfderydd Carlisle Catraeth...
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  • office was formerly located at the northbound Tebay services but is now at Rheged Services and Visitor Centre in Cumbria. The company was formed in 1972 to...
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    Elmet Essex Hwicce Isle of Wight Kent Lindsey Magonsæte Mercia Northumbria Rheged Sussex Wessex York Monarchy Lists of Irish kings / kingdoms High Kings Ailech...
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    Asclepiades, whose troops were reinforced by the Caesarea-based Arcadiani of Rheges, defeated Justa, killed him, and sent his head to Zeno. According to Procopius...
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  • Eliud. Geoffrey may possibly have based the character on that of Urien Rheged (6th century), although there is no resemblance between them. Monarchie...
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    Owain mab Urien, the basis of the literary character, ruled as the king of Rheged in Britain during the late-6th century. Yvain was one of the earliest characters...
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    and Scoti. The major kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd were Elmet, Gododdin, Rheged, and the Kingdom of Strathclyde (Welsh: Ystrad Clud). Smaller kingdoms included...
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    described as an Otherworldly northern British kingdom, possibly the historical Rheged (early versions have alternatively named Morgan's husband as Nentres of...
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    Theodric, is noted for fighting against a Brittonic coalition led by Urien Rheged and his sons. The genealogical preface to Chronicon ex chronicis names six...
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    saints associated with the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, including Elmet, Rheged, Gododdin, Manaw, Lleuddiniawn and Ystrad Clud. Saint Kentigern (also known...
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  • reign, however. At some point during his reign, the coalition forces of Rheged and the Brythonic kingdoms of Strathclyde, Bernicia and Elmet laid siege...
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    the sub-Roman culture continued in northern England until the merger of Rheged (the kingdom of the Brigantes) with Northumbria by dynastic marriage in...
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