• Thumbnail for Cyfraith Hywel
    Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh: [ˈkəvraiθ ˈhəwɛl]; Laws of Hywel), also known as Welsh law (Latin: Leges Walliæ), was the system of law practised in medieval Wales...
    49 KB (7,322 words) - 15:59, 6 August 2024
  • lists all manuscripts known to contain versions of the Cyfraith Hywel first codified by Hywel Dda in the mid 10th century. Black Book of Chirk Peniarth...
    2 KB (216 words) - 20:24, 21 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hywel Dda
    as the Laws of Hywel Dda (Welsh: Cyfraith Hywel). None of the law manuscripts can be dated to Hywel's time, but Hywel's name is mentioned in the prologues...
    15 KB (1,642 words) - 16:35, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Powys
    Æthelstan's court. Hywel studied the English legal system and reformed Welsh law in his own realms (later called the Cyfraith Hywel or "Laws of Hywel"), and when...
    34 KB (4,166 words) - 03:24, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Camlann
    in Peniarth MS.37, a 14th-century copy of the Gwentian code of the Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh law), which (according to Peter Bartrum) shows that it was a...
    21 KB (2,546 words) - 05:36, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wales
    Whitland around 930 by Hywel Dda, king of most of Wales between 942 and his death in 950. The 'law of Hywel Dda' (Welsh: Cyfraith Hywel), as it became known...
    218 KB (21,702 words) - 21:34, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Welsh law
    first time in almost 500 years that Wales has had its own laws, since Cyfraith Hywel, a version of Celtic law, was abolished and replaced by English law...
    17 KB (1,875 words) - 13:16, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Welsh independence
    the Laws in Wales Acts between 1535 and 1542, English law replaced Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh medieval law), and the Welsh principality and Marches were integrated...
    88 KB (8,629 words) - 21:12, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Enoch Powell
    jointly with Stephen J. Williams Cyfreithiau Hywel Dda yn ôl Llyfr Blegywryd, a text on Cyfraith Hywel, the medieval Welsh law), modern Greek, and Portuguese...
    194 KB (26,928 words) - 12:31, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for NLW MS 20143A
    law that applied in medieval Wales, known as Cyfraith Hywel (the law of Hywel, after the Welsh king Hywel Dda). It includes a copy of the laws of court...
    5 KB (593 words) - 16:00, 6 August 2024