OUR LOGO
Cyngen fab Cadell, the last Prince of Powys (the medieval kingdom covering the area from which the county of Montgomeryshire was formed in 1536) died – some say was murdered – on a pilgrimage to Rome in the year 854. Before his death, he had a large stone cross erected in the memory of his great grandfather Eliseg, on which the ancestry of his family is recited. The remnants of the "pillar of Eliseg" stand to this day in the vale of Llangollen, near Valle Crucis abbey. As a genealogical monument, it is unique in the British Isles.
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