Anti-Norman Welsh and Saxon Alliance
They continued Gruffudd's policy of allying to the Mercian Saxons to resist the threat from William the Conqueror.
In 1067 Bleddyn and Rhiwallon joined with the Mercian Eadric the Wild in an attack on the Normans at Hereford, ravaged the lands as far as the River Lugg then in 1068 allied with Earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria in another attack on the Normans.
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