The Kingdom of Ceredigion

The Kingdom of Ceredigion was an important state in the history of Wales, while its individual accomplishments were not grand in scale, this kingdom still succeeded in both expanding its territory and maintaining its independence. Welsh history often overlooks the details of the smaller kingdoms, so today I will be telling you the complete history of Ceredigion, from its Celtic conception to its unity with Dyfed, and how even the smallest states can impact the history of Wales. 0:00 - The Celts & The Romans 7:36 - The Age of Kings 15:39 - Drowning Dynasties Sources (turn on captions): Davies, W.H. (1961). The Romans in Cardiganshire. Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, IV(2), pp.85-93. https://journals.library.wales/view/1... [1]p.85 [2]p.86 [3]p.87 [4]p.88 [5]p.90 [6]p.91 [7]p.93 Charles-Edwards, T.M. (2013). Wales and the Britons, 350-1064. Oxford: OUP, pp.20,176,495. [8]p.20 [9]p.176 [10]p.495 Davies, J. (2007). A History of Wales. London: Penguin, pp.16,27-30,39-50,73,79,83,93. [11]p.16 [12]p.27 [13]p.28 [14]p.29 [15]p.30 [16]p.39 [17]p.40 [18]p.41 [19]p.45 [20]p.47 [21]p.48-49 [22]p.50 [23]p.73 [24]p.79 [25]p.83 [26]p.93 The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. [27]chap.30 Ptolemy, C. (1932). Geography of Claudius Ptolemy (II). Translated by E.L. Stevenson. N. Y.: The New York Public Library. [28]chap.2 Richards, M. (1962). Local Government in Cardiganshire, Medieval and Modern. Ceredigion : Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, IV(3), pp.273-274. [29]p.273-274 The Mabinogion. (1877). Translated by C. Guest. London: Bernard Quaritch. [30]Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed Philimore, E. (1888). The Annales Cambriae and Old Welsh Genealogies. Y Cymmrodor, IX, pp.141–168, 169-183. [31]141-168 [32]169-183 Giles, J.A. (1848). Nennius: The History of the Britons, in Six Old English Chronicles. London: Henry G. Bohn. [33]p.62 Owen, A. (1841). Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales: Comprising Laws Supposed to be Enacted by Howel the Good, Volume 2. London: G. E. Eyre and A. Spottiswoode. [34]p.51 Lloyd, J. E. (1911). A History of Wales, Vol. 1. London: Longmans, Green and Co., pp.256-257. [35]p.256 [36]p.257 Bartrum, P.C. (1993). A Welsh Classical Dictionary : People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000. The National Library of Wales. [37]p.172 Maund, K. (2006). The Welsh Kings. 3rd ed. United Kingdom: The History Press Ltd, pp.31-32,44,47-58. [38]p.31-32 [39]p.44 [40]p.47-50 [41]p.52-53 [42]p.55 [43]p.56-57 [44]p.58 Davis, W. (1990). Patterns of Power in Early Wales. Oxford: Clarendon. [45]chap.3 Cook, A.S. (1906). Life of King Alfred. Boston: Ginn & Company. [46]p.80 Music: 'And It Is There, in Those Depths', 'Readers! Do You Read?', 'We Always Thought the Future Would Be Kind of Fun', 'Out of the Skies, Under the Earth', 'I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves', 'Is That You or Are You You?' by Chris Zabriskie are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/dtv/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Map Attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright https://www.floodmap.net/ Image Attribution: Saint David by Hchc2009: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Owain Gwynedd - National Library of Wales (NLW). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Licensed under CC0 1.0 - https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... Rice ap Gryffydd - NLW. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4702869 Roman Emperor - NLW. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4806621 p.20 Cunedda - NLW. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4396654 p.41 Agricola by Ad Meskens: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Corbalengi Stone cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Cered - geograph.org.uk/p/40156 Hawarden Castle - NLW. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4690846 p.94 Ship - NLW. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4690846 p.47 Ogham Stone - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Macsen Wledig - NLW. Ceredig - NLW. Harleian Geneologies - NLW. By Sir John Morris-Jones http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1393466 p.4 Maelgwn - NLW. Rhodri - NLW. "Arms of Llywelyn", "Coat of arms of Powys", and "Coat of arms of Deheubarth" by AlexD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ar... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co... CC BY-SA 3.0 Alfred - NLW. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4672776 Hywel Dda - NLW. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4400109 (p.13) #wales