Huwal of the West Welsh
Huwal (Template:Lang-cy; modern English: Howell) was a Brythonic monarch of the early to mid-10th century recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The Chronicle refers to him as "king of the West Welsh", the usual Anglo-Saxon name for the Cornish or southwestern Britons. However, there are no other known references to a king of this name in that region at the time, and as such his identity is a matter of debate.
Huwal is mentioned only in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 926, as one of several kings who signed a treaty at Eamont Bridge accepting King Athelstan of Wessex as their overlord. He is described as king of the West Welsh, implying he was ruler of the Kingdom of Cornwall or its predecessor state of Dumnonia. Some scholars take this at face value; for example Philip Payton of the Institute of Cornish Studies indicates that he is "regarded as the last in a line of independent or semi-independent Cornish (Dumnonian) kings".[1] As such the final submission of Cornwall to Wessex may be attributed to him. Others, however, have suggested that the Chronicle reference intends the kingdom of Deheubarth in what is now South West Wales (see West Wales), which was ruled at the time by Hywel Dda.[2][3] Hywel Dda is recorded elsewhere as an ally of Athelstan.
References
- ^ Philip Payton. (1996). Cornwall. Fowey: Alexander Associates
- ^ Ann Williams et al. (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain. London: Seaby
- ^ Wendy Davies. (1982). Wales in the early middle Ages. London: Leicester University Press
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