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{{Short description|King of Gwynedd from 950 to 969}}
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'''Ieuaf''' ({{langx|cy|"the younger"}}) usually known as '''[[Idwal ap Idwal]]''' ({{langx|en|Idwal son of Idwal}}, died 988), to distinguish him from his father [[Idwal Foel]], was joint [[List of rulers of Gwynedd|king of Gwynedd]] in northern [[Wales]] from 950 to 969. He possibly also ruled [[Kingdom of Powys|Powys]] for some time.
Ieuaf was a son of King [[Idwal Foel]]. Upon his father's death in battle against the [[Anglo-Saxons]] in 942, he and his brother [[Iago ab Idwal]] were driven from their kingdom by their uncle [[Hywel Dda]] of [[Deheubarth]], who took the crown for himself. On Hywel's death in 950, Ieuaf and Iago were able to drive out Hywel's sons, their cousins, at the [[Battle of Carno]] and reclaim the kingdom. However, fighting continued, with the brothers raiding as far south as [[kingdom of Dyfed|Dyfed]] in 952 and their cousins raiding as far north as the [[river Conwy|Conwy valley]] in 954. The southern princes were finally defeated at the [[Battle of Llanrwst]] and chased back to [[kingdom of Ceredigion|Ceredigion]].
Having won, the brothers then began to quarrel among themselves. Iago took Ieuaf prisoner in 969, and Ieuaf played no further role in Gwynedd. Iago ruled another decade before Ieuaf's son [[Hywel ap Ieuaf]] usurped him in 979; according to historian [[John Edward Lloyd]], Ieuaf remained in captivity until his death in 988.<ref>{{cite book |author=John Edward Lloyd |author-link=John Edward Lloyd |title=A history of Wales: from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwalesfr01lloyuoft |publisher=Longmans, Green, & Co. |year=1911 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofwalesfr01lloyuoft/page/344 344]}}</ref>
== Children ==
* [[Hywel ap Ieuaf]];
* [[Cadwallon ab Ieuaf]];
* [[Meurig ap Ieuaf]].
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