{"slug": "powys", "label": "Powys", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powys", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156150", "qid": "Q156150", "description": "principal area and preserved county in mid-Wales, United Kingdom", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [595, 1023], "span_label": ["595 CE", "1023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}], "related": [{"slug": "wales", "label": "Wales", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "mercia", "label": "Mercia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-gwynedd", "label": "Kingdom of Gwynedd", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "coenwulf-of-mercia", "label": "Coenwulf of Mercia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "edwin-of-northumbria", "label": "Edwin of Northumbria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "northern-england", "label": "Northern England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cyngen-ap-cadell", "label": "Cyngen ap Cadell", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northumbria", "label": "Northumbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "celtic-britons", "label": "Celtic Britons", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dumnonia", "label": "Dumnonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chester", "label": "Chester", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bernicia", "label": "Bernicia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 595, "year_label": "595 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Dynod Bwr of the Pennines (Northern England) dies fighting off a Bernician invasion. His kingdom Hen Ogledd (\"The Old North\") is overrun, and his family flees to Powys (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658603#Britain", "title": "595", "revid": 1367658603, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 613, "year_label": "613 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Chester: King Æthelfrith of Northumbria invades Gwynedd (northwest Wales), in order to route out his old enemy, Edwin of Deira. A united Brythonic force (Gwynedd, Powys, Pengwern and Dumnonian warriors) is defeated near Chester.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755983#Britain", "title": "613", "revid": 1364755983, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 620, "year_label": "620 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Angles under King Edwin of Northumbria invade Rheged (\"Old North\") in Northern England, and expel King Llywarch Hen. He flees to Powys, and becomes a famous bard. Edwin's armies fight against Gododdin and Strathclyde.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749611#Britain", "title": "620", "revid": 1364749611, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 797, "year_label": "797 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Rhuddlan: Welsh forces, including those of Powys and Dyfed, clash with Mercians. King Coenwulf tries to re-assert his domination of northeast Wales. King Caradog ap Meirion of Gwynedd is killed during the fighting (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358611998#Britain", "title": "797", "revid": 1358611998, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 821, "year_label": "821 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Coenwulf of Mercia dies in Basingwerk near Holywell (Wales), while preparing for another assault on Powys, and is buried in Winchcombe Abbey. He is briefly succeeded by his son Cynehelm, but he is killed, probably fighting the Welsh, though supposedly through the treachery of his sister Cwenthryth. The Mercian throne passes to Coenwulf's brother, Ceolwulf I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941313#Britain", "title": "821", "revid": 1340941313, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 822, "year_label": "822 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Ceolwulf I of Mercia invades Powys (Wales), but is beaten back by King Cyngen. However, Ceolwulf does destroy the fortress of Deganwy, and later takes the kingdom under his control (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074664#Britain", "title": "822", "revid": 1267074664, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1023, "year_label": "1023 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Llywelyn ap Seisyll, king of Gwynedd and Powys", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213204#Deaths", "title": "1023", "revid": 1342213204, "section": "Deaths"}}]}