Owain ap Dyfnwal (died 1015)

Owain ap Dyfnwal
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Owain's name as it appears on folio 60r of Oxford Jesus College 111 (the Red Book of Hergest): "owein".[1]
King of Strathclyde
PredecessorMáel Coluim
SuccessorOwain Foel
Died1015
FatherDyfnwal ab Owain

Owain ap Dyfnwal (died 1015) may have been an eleventh-century ruler of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. He seems to have been a son of Dyfnwal ab Owain, King of Strathclyde, and may well have succeeded Dyfnwal's son, Máel Coluim, King of Strathclyde. During Owain's reign, he would have faced a massive invasion by Æthelræd II, King of the English. Owain's death is recorded in 1015, and seems to have been succeeded by Owain Foel, a man who may have been his nephew.

  1. ^ Anderson (1922) p. 550 n. 2; Rhŷs (1890) p. 264; Williams Ab Ithel (1860) pp. 34–35; Jesus College MS. 111 (n.d.); Oxford Jesus College MS. 111 (n.d.).