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Gruffudd ap Cynan 1055 – 1137 His father was Prince, Cynan ap Iago Gruffudd's mother was Ragnailt ingen Amlaíb, a granddaughter of King Sigtrygg Silkbeard and a member of the Hiberno-Norse Uí Ímair dynasty. (Had a number of children, one went onto be a very successful. King Owain Gwynedd (c. 1100 – 1170) and the other Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (1100 – 1136) who married Gruffydd ap Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth who was the son of her fathers ally Rhys ap Tewdwr .) He three times gained the throne of Gwynedd and then lost it again, before regaining it once more in 1099 and this time keeping power until his death born in the Hiberno-Norse Kingdom of Dublin and reared near Swords, County Dublin in Ireland. ‘’Gruffudd received considerable help from Ireland, from the Hiberno-Norse at Dublin, the Isles and Wexford and from Muircheartach Ua Briain, because he was also descendant through his mother from Brian Boru, High King of Ireland’’ Gruffudd first attempted to take ove...