Wales and its History

Viking attacks on Wales increase dramaticly around this time, you will find a timeline of viking attacks in this link  Timeline of Viking Raids on the Welsh 822   Coelwulf of Mercia invaded north Wales and captures  Deganwy  from Gwynedd and occupies the whole of Powys. Ceolwulf of Mercia conquers Powys  Annales Cambriae  "The fortress of Deganwy was destroyed by the Saxons and they took into their power the regio of Powys". 828  The lands of Powys are liberated from Mercian occupation by  Cyngen ap Cadell .  The  Pillar of Eliseg  was probably commissioned at this time. 830  Egbert of Wessex invades Powys and forces Cyngen ap Cadell to submit. Egbert then withdraws his forces.  831 A.D. 831 The Saxons of Mercia came unawares by night, and burnt the monastery of Senghenydd, which stood in the place the castle now does. From thence they went to the Castle of Treoda, and burnt it, and escaped from thence over the Severn Sea ...

  682    [ASC 16] This year also, Centwine chased the Britons into the sea. 720    In or about 722, the Welsh won a victory against the Mercians in south Wales, at a Pencon or Pencoed, a place not yet identified. Source: J.E.Lloyd, A History of Wales, 1954, vol.1, p.197. 721: The Britons prevailed in the battle of Pen-coed in Deheubarth [Carmarthenshire]. Source: Thomas Jones, The Chronicle of the Princes, 1955, p.5. "Castell Pen-y-coed hillfort near Llanddowror in Carmarthenshire] has been suggested as the possible scene of the battle of Pencon or Pencoed, said (Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogion) to have been fought in the sixth century."  Source: RCAHMW Carmarthenshire Inventory, 1917, p.38, no.130. B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 05 July 2006. brut  'And then, a year after that, Beli, son of Elfin, died. And the battle of Heilin, with Rhodri Molwynog, took place in Cornwall; and the action of Garthmaelog, and the fight of Pencoed in South Wales. And in tho...