Maelor is an area of north-east Wales along the border with England.
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Name Maelor is an old Welsh word: it can be translated as "land of the prince", from mael and llawr.
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Maelor originated as a cantref of the Kingdom of Powys, focused on the monastic settlement of Bangor-on-Dee and containing the commotes of Maelor, Yale, the Alyn Valley and Hope.
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The lands of the Maelor were only reincorporated in Powys during the reign of Stephen of England by Madog ap Maredudd.
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Maelor died in 1160 and the kingdom was subdivided amongst his heirs.
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Maelor Gymraeg, known by the English name Bromfield, lay west of the river Dee and was based on the commotes of Wrexham and Merford.
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Maelor Saesneg included parts of the parishes of Overton, Ellesmere, Whittington and Oswestry; Malaur Saisnec appears in a document as early as 1202.
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English Maelor is the area east of the River Dee extending almost to Whitchurch.
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