The Welsh annals record the killing of Caradog ap Meirion of Gwynedd by the English in 796, the same year Offa of Mercia died. Rhuddlan on the north Welsh coast was a point of repeated contest. The death of the Gwynedd king demonstrates Mercian military reach along the north Welsh coast in the Offan period. Location at Rhuddlan is the chronicle tradition though the exact site is uncertain.
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