Huwal (Welsh: Hywel; modern English: Howell), "King of the West Welsh" was a Celtic monarch of the early-mid 10th century recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There is some controversy over the location of his kingdom.

This character only appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 927, as one of several kings who signed a treaty at Eamont Bridge accepting King Athelstan of Wessex as their overlord.

He is described as a "King of the West Welsh". The only place ever referred to by the Anglo-Saxons as "West Wales", was Dumnonia or Cornwall. However, it can also refer to present day West Wales, then generally known as Deheubarth, and some Welsh and English studies claim that this is a reference to that area's monarch at the time, Hywel Dda.^[1][2]

However, some historians believe he was indeed from the Dumnonia and Huwel is "regarded as the last in a line of independent or semi-independent Cornish (Dumnonian) kings" by Professor Philip Payton of the Institute of Cornish Studies^[3]

See also

• Kingdom of Cornwall

References

1. ↑ Ann Williams et al. (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain. London: Seaby
2. ↑ Wendy Davies. (1982). Wales in the early middle Ages. London: Leicester University Press
3. ↑ Philip Payton. (1996). Cornwall. Fowey: Alexander Associates