Merfyn Frych

Merfyn Frych (ili Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad) (srpskohrvatski: Merfyn Pjegavi, sin Gwriadov; ? - 844) bio je kralj Gwynedda koji je vladao od 825. do smrti, poznat kao prvi kralj koji nije poticao od muške loze Maelgwn Gwynedda. O njegovoj vladavini se malo zna, a poznat je pri svega kao otac daleko znamenitijeg kralja Rhodrija Velikog. Merfyn je na prijestolje došao nakon krvavog dinastijskog sukoba između braće Cynana (vl. 798 – 816) i Hywela (vl. 816 – 825), u vrijeme kada je kraljevstvo bilo pod pritiskom susjedne Mercije. Annales Cambriae navodi da je umro 844. godine, iste godine kada se zbila bitka kod Ketilla (ili Cetyll), ali nije jasno imaju li ta dva događaja veze.

Izvori

• Davies, John (1990), A History of Wales (First ed.), London: Penguin Group (published 1993), ISBN 0-713-99098-8 
• Fraser, James E. (2009), From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795, I, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-1232-1 
• Kermode, Philip Moore Callow (1897), A Welsh Inscription in the Isle of Man, in Meyer, Kuno; Stern, L. Chr., , Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (Halle: Max Niemeyer) I, http://books.google.com/books?id=_Z4MAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA47-IA1 
• Kirby, D. P. (1991), "The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the first three-quarters of the ninth century", The Earliest English Kings (Revised ed.), New York: Routlege (published 2000), ISBN 0-415-24211-8 
• Lloyd, John Edward (1909), "Merfyn", in Lee, Sidney, Dictionary of National Biography (Masquerier – Myles), XIII, New York: The Macmillan Company, http://books.google.com/books?id=phRbAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA277 
• Lloyd, John Edward (1911), A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, I (2nd ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co (published 1912), http://books.google.com/?id=NYwNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover 
• Nennius (c. 800), Stevenson, Joseph, ed., Nennii Historia Britonum, London: English Historical Society, 1838, http://books.google.com/?id=Kq8KAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 
• Parry, Henry (translator), ed. (1829), "Brut y Saeson", Archaeologia Cambrensis, IX, London: J. Russell Smith (published 1863), http://books.google.com/books?id=28A1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63 
• Phillimore, Egerton, ed. (1887), "Pedigrees from Jesus College MS. 20", Y Cymmrodor, VIII, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, http://www.archive.org/details/ycymmrodor08cymmuoft 
• Phillimore, Egerton (1888), "The Annales Cambriae and Old Welsh Genealogies, from Harleian MS. 3859", in Phillimore, Egerton, Y Cymmrodor, IX, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, http://books.google.com/books?id=aFMrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA141 
• Rhys, John (1897), Note on Guriat, in Meyer, Kuno; Stern, L. Chr., , Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (Halle: Max Niemeyer) I, http://books.google.com/books?id=_Z4MAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA52 
• Skene, William Forbes (1868a), The Four Ancient Books of Wales, I, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas (published 1868), http://books.google.com/?id=xeEIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover 
• Skene, William Forbes (1868b), The Four Ancient Books of Wales, II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas (published 1868), http://books.google.com/?id=7uEIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover 
• Stokes, Whitley (18 July 1892), "On a Mediaeval Cryptogram", The Academy (July – December, 1892), XLII, London: The Academy (published 1892), http://books.google.com/books?id=wzcZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA71 
• Thornton, David E. (2004), "Merfyn Frych (d. 844)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18587 

Literatura

• Derolez, R. (1952), "Dubthach's cryptogram", L'Antiquité Classique, 21 

Kraljevske titule
Prethodi: Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog	kralj Gwynedda 825–844	Slijedi: Rhodri Veliki