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| - Dafydd's time as heir to the throne was a happy one. Born to two well educated monarchs he enjoyed a rich academic schedule until the age of 12 where he was then introduced to the military arts by the Duke of March. Dafydd was also the first monarch since his namesake and great-grandfather, Dafydd IV to marry a member of a senior European Royal House. In 1695, Dafydd and his father traveled to France to met with Louis XIV. For Hywel the purpose was originally trade and defence. The net result, however, with the Treaty of Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was the marriage of the Edling, Dafydd with a daughter of Louis XIV, the Princess Henrietta Bourbon De France. Born on the 30th July 1679 she was older than her husband-to-be, and part of the conditions of the marriage treaty was that no c
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| - Dafydd's time as heir to the throne was a happy one. Born to two well educated monarchs he enjoyed a rich academic schedule until the age of 12 where he was then introduced to the military arts by the Duke of March. Dafydd was also the first monarch since his namesake and great-grandfather, Dafydd IV to marry a member of a senior European Royal House. In 1695, Dafydd and his father traveled to France to met with Louis XIV. For Hywel the purpose was originally trade and defence. The net result, however, with the Treaty of Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was the marriage of the Edling, Dafydd with a daughter of Louis XIV, the Princess Henrietta Bourbon De France. Born on the 30th July 1679 she was older than her husband-to-be, and part of the conditions of the marriage treaty was that no ceremony would take place until the Princess turned 18. That marriage duly took place on the 7th March 1698. The final eight years of his father's life, Dafydd was increasing to find himself involved in the running of the kingdom, with Hywel wanting his heir to be ready for the duties of kingship once he died. Accordingly Dafydd was assumed the duties of the Prince of Gwynedd, though his father did not grant him the title, preferring to leave him as Lord of Snowdon instead. Dafydd and his wife also experienced much heartache in these early years of marriage with six miscarriages and two still-born children during the first ten years of marriage. Finally in 1706 as his father grew weaker Dafydd was placed in control of the Kings Council, the central part of the Kings Government, leaving Dafydd well placed to act when his father died on the 30th September 1706.
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