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Gwent is a preserved county and a former local government county in south-east Wales. It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, and was named after the ancient Kingdom of Gwent. The authority was a successor to both the administrative county of Monmouthshire (with minor boundary changes)^[1] and the county borough of Newport (both authorities which were considered to be legally part of England until the Act came into force^[2] although considered jointly with Wales for certain purposes).^[3][4]

Under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, Gwent was abolished on 1 April 1996.^[5] However, it remains one of the preserved counties of Wales for the ceremonial purposes of Lieutenancy and High Shrievalty, and its name also survives in various titles, e.g. Gwent Police, Royal Gwent Hospital, Gwent Wildlife Trust and Coleg Gwent. 'Gwent' is often used as a synonym for the historic county of Monmouthshire — for example the Gwent Family History Society describes itself as 'The key to roots in the historic county of Monmouthshire'.^[6]

The former administrative county was divided into several districts: Blaenau Gwent, Islwyn, Monmouth, Newport and Torfaen. The successor unitary authorities are the Blaenau Gwent County Borough, Caerphilly County Borough (part of which came from Mid Glamorgan), Monmouthshire (which covers the eastern 60% of the historic county), City of Newport and Torfaen County Borough.

In 2003 the preserved county of Gwent expanded to include the whole of Caerphilly County Borough;^[7] the Gwent Police area had already been realigned to these boundaries in 1996. In 2007, the population of this enlarged area was estimated as 560,500,^[8] making it the most populous of the preserved counties of Wales.

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1. ^Less the parish of St Mellons and urban districts of Bedwas and Machen, Rhymney and part of Bedwellty and the addition of the parishes of Llanelly and Brynmawr.
2. ^Local Government Act 1972 c. 70, s. 1 New local government areas in England, ss. 12 'In this section 'England' does not include the administrative county of Monmouthshire or the county borough of Newport.' & s. 20 New local government areas in Wales, ss. 7 'In this section 'Wales' includes the administrative county of Monmouthshire and the county borough of Newport.'
3. ^Williams, Chris (2011). 'The Question of Monmouthshire'. In Williams, Chris; Williams, Sian Rhiannon (eds.). Industrial Monmouthshire 1780-1914. The Gwent County History. 4. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 357. ISBN978-0-7083-2365-6. OCLC56570946.
4. ^Hopkins, Tony (Summer 1991). 'In search of Monmouthshire, 1536-1972'. Gwent Local History (71): 8–12. Retrieved 26 March 2018 – via Welsh Journals Online at the National Library of Wales.
5. ^'Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 c. 19, s. 1(1)'. 5 July 1994.
6. ^'Gwent Family History Society'. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
7. ^'The Preserved Counties (Amendment to Boundaries) (Wales) Order 2003'. Office of Public Sector Information. 2003-04-01. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
8. ^2007 population estimate, calculated using 2003 borders for Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen. Source: 'Table 10: Mid-2006 to Mid-2007 Population Estimates, Components of population change for local authorities in the United Kingdom'. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-09-11.

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• Ralph A. Griffiths, general editor, Gwent County History, University of Wales, 5 vols, 2004 —

Gwent (Old Welsh: Guent) was a medievalWelsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk. It existed from the end of Roman rule in Britain in about the 5th century until the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century. Along with its neighbour Glywyssing, it seems to have had a great deal of cultural continuity with the earlier Silures,^[1] keeping their own courts and diocese separate from the rest of Wales until their conquest by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. Although it recovered its independence after his death in 1063, Gwent was the first of the Welsh kingdoms to be overrun following the Norman conquest.

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Establishment[edit]

The area has been occupied since the Paleolithic, with Mesolithic finds at Goldcliff and evidence of growing activity throughout the Bronze and Iron Age.

Gwent came into being after the Romans had left Britain, and was a successor state drawing on the culture of the pre-Roman Silures tribe and ultimately a large part of their Iron Age territories. It took its name from the civitas capital of Venta Silurum, perhaps meaning 'Market of the Silures'. In the post Roman period, the territory around Venta became the successor kingdom of Guenta, later Gwent, deriving its name directly from the town through the normal sound change in the Brythonic languages from v to gu. The town itself became Caerwent, 'Fort Venta'.^[2]

Early Gwent[edit]

The medieval kingdom was traditionally^{[citation needed]} taken to be the area between the Usk, the Wye, and Severn estuary. To the north, the area adjoined Ewyas and Ergyng (later known as 'Archenfield'). According to one Old Welsh genealogy, the founder of the kingdom was Caradoc Freichfras.^{[citation needed]} The earliest centre of the kingdom may have been at Caerwent, the Roman administrative centre, or perhaps Caerleon, formerly a major Roman military base. Welsh saints like Dubricius, Tatheus and Cadoc Christianized the area from the 5th century onwards. According to tradition, in about the 6th century Caradoc moved his court from Caerwent to Portskewett, perhaps meaning nearby Sudbrook. Other suggestions are that Gwent was founded by Erb, possibly a descendant of Caradoc, who may have been a ruler of Ergyng east of the Black Mountains who won control of a wider area to the south.^[3]

A later monarch was the Christian King Tewdrig who was mortally wounded repelling a paganSaxon invasion. His son Meurig may have been responsible for uniting Gwent with Glywysing to the west in the 7th century, through marriage.^[3] It has been suggested that Meurig's son, Athrwys, may be the origin for King Arthur, although others consider this unlikely.

At times in the 8th century, Gwent and Glywysing appear to have formed a single kingdom. Gwent may also have extended east of the River Wye into areas known as Cantref Coch, which later became the Forest of Dean.^[4][5] Its eastern boundary later became established as the Wye, perhaps first determined by Offa of Mercia'sdyke in the late 8th century, and certainly by Athelstan of England in 927. The area west of the River Usk was Gwynllŵg, which formed part of Glywysing.

Morgannwg[edit]

In 931, Morgan ab Owain of Gwent, later known as Morgan Hen (Morgan the Old), was one of the Welsh rulers who submitted to Athelstan's overlordship, and attended him at court in Hereford. However, Gwent remained a distinct Welsh kingdom. In about 942, Gwent and Glywysing were again temporarily united under the name of Morgannŵg by Morgan Hen, but they were broken up again after his death. In 1034 Gwent was invaded by Canute.^[6]

Destruction[edit]

Gwent's existence as a separate kingdom again temporarily ended when Gruffydd ap Llywelynwon control of the area and Morgannŵg in 1055, so extending his rule over the whole of Wales. In 1056 Gruffyd ap Llywelyn campaigned from the vicinity of Monmouth with an army of Welsh, Saxons and Danes to defeat Ralph, Earl of Hereford, ravaging the surrounding countryside.^[7] However, after Gruffydd's death in 1063, Caradog ap Gruffudd re-established an independent kingdom in Gwent under his father's 2nd cousin Cadwgan ap Meurig.^[3] In 1065 the area was invaded by Earl Harold of Hereford, who attempted to establish a base at Portskewett, but it was razed to the ground by Caradog, and Harold - having by then been crowned King of England - was killed at the Battle of Hastings the following year.^[2]

With the Norman invasion of Britain, the Normans sacked south-east Wales and parts of Gwent in response to Eadric's Herefordshire rebellion in alliance with the Welsh prince of Gwynedd (and Powys), Bleddyn ap Cynfyn.^[8] King Maredudd of Deheubarth decided not to resist the Norman encroachment on Gwent and was rewarded with lands in England in 1070,^[9] at the same time as the chronicler Orderic Vitalis noted in his Historia Ecclesiastica that a Welsh king named 'Caducan' (Cadwgan ap Meurig) suffered defeat in battle at the hands of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford.^[10] With the Norman invasion of Wales extending westwards, Caradog's area of control moved into Deheubarth to the west, and in 1074 Caradog took over control over what was left of the war-ravaged Kingdom from Cadwgan ap Meurig.^[10]

Norman Lordships[edit]

By Caradog's death in 1081 most of Gwent had become firmly under Norman control.^[3] The Normans divided the area, including those areas which they controlled beyond the River Usk, into the Marcher Lordships of Abergavenny, Caerleon, Monmouth, Striguil (Chepstow) and Usk. Welsh law as seen through Norman eyes continued, with Marcher lords ruling sicut regale ('like a king') as stated by Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester.^[11]

The Normans lords freely built permanent stone castles, many originating from a network of earlier motte and bailey castles. The density of castles of this type and age is amongst the highest in Britain and certainly the rest of the Welsh Marches, with at least 25 castle sites remaining in Monmouthshire alone today.^[12]

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Conflict with the Welsh continued intermittently, although the Welsh Lord of Caerleon, Morgan ab Owain, grandson of King Caradog ap Gruffudd, was recognized by Henry II c. 1155,^[13] with Caerleon remaining, in welsh hands, subject to occasional struggles,^[14] until William Marshal retook the castle in 1217 from Morgan ap Hywel.^[13]

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Legacy[edit]

Despite the extinction of the kingdom by 1091, the name Gwent remained in use for the area by the Welsh throughout this period and later centuries. It was traditionally divided by the forested hills of Wentwood (Welsh: Coed Gwent) into Gwent Uwch-coed ('beyond the wood') and Gwent Is-coed ('below the wood'). These terms were translated into English as Overwent and Netherwent, the entire area sometimes being known as 'Wentland' or 'Gwentland'.^[12][15]

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The Marcher Lordships were the basic units of administration for the next 450 or so years, until Henry VIII passed the Laws in Wales Act 1535. This Act abolished the Marcher Lordships and established the County of Monmouth, combining the Lordships east of the Usk with Newport (Gwynllŵg or Wentloog) and Caerleon to the west of it.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, writers again began using the name 'Gwent' in a romantic literary way to describe Monmouthshire. In the local government re-organisations of 1974/5, several new administrative areas within Wales were named after medieval kingdoms - Gwent, Dyfed, Powys, and Gwynedd. Gwent as a local government unit again ceased to exist in 1996, when replaced by the unitary local authorities of Newport, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen, Caerphilly (which included parts of Mid Glamorgan), and Monmouthshire. The name remains as one of the preserved counties of Wales used for certain ceremonial purposes, and also survives in various titles, e.g. Gwent Police, Royal Gwent Hospital and Coleg Gwent.

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References[edit]

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1. ^Miranda Aldhouse-Green &al. Gwent In Prehistory and Early History: The Gwent County History, Vol.1. 2004. ISBN0-7083-1826-6.
2. ^ ^ab'South-East Wales in the Early Medieval Period'. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
3. ^ ^abcdRaymond Howell, A History of Gwent, 1988, ISBN0-86383-338-1
4. ^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). 'Monmouthshire' . Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 729.
5. ^R. J. Mansfield, Forest Story, 1965
6. ^Thomas Nicholas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales
7. ^A Brief History of the Town of MonmouthArchived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 11 January 2012
8. ^Douglas, D. C., William the Conqueror, 1964: Eyre Methuen, London
9. ^John Edward Lloyd (1911) A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest (Longmans, Green & Co.)
10. ^ ^abOrderic Vitalis (12th Century) Historia Ecclesiastica
11. ^Nelson, Lynn H. (1966). The Normans in South Wales, 1070–1171. Austin and London: University of Texas Press.
12. ^ ^abGriffiths, Ralph A.; Hopkins, Tony; Howell, Ray (2008). The Gwent County History Vol.2: The Age of the Marcher Lords, c.1070-1536. University of Wales Press. ISBN978-0-7083-2072-3.
13. ^ ^abJenkins, Robert Thomas (1959), 'MORGAN ap HYWEL', Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, retrieved 2016-04-12
14. ^Jermyn, Anthony. '4: Caerleon Through the Centuries to the Year 2000Archived 2013-06-20 at the Wayback Machine'. 2010 Accessed 13 Feb 2013.
15. ^'Monmouthshire - William Camden's Britannia 1695 by Edmund Gibson translated by Edward Llwyd'.

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