Pryderi’s Family Tree

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Family

• Pwyll(parent),Rhiannon(parent)— Marriage

  Rhiannon chose Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, as her husband over the suitor her father had chosen, and bore him a son, Pryderi, who vanished on the night of his birth — leaving Rhiannon falsely accused of devouring her own child.

Slain by

• Gwydion

  Gwydion slew Pryderi fab Pwyll in single combat at the conclusion of the war between Gwynedd and Dyfed, a conflict Gwydion himself provoked by stealing Pryderi's enchanted swine through trickery and illusion.

Associated with

• Gwydion

  Gwydion conjured twelve stallions, twelve greyhounds, and twelve golden shields from mushrooms and sedge to swindle Pryderi out of the enchanted swine of Annwfn, a theft that triggered the war between Gwynedd and Dyfed.