Angharad#Literature
{{Short description|Welsh feminine name}}
Angharad ({{IPAc-en|æ|ŋ|ˈ|h|ær|ə|d}}, {{respell|ang|HARR|ad}};{{cite LPD|3}} or {{IPAc-en|æ|ŋ|ˈ|h|ær|æ|d}}{{cn|date=June 2025}}; {{IPA|cy|aˈŋ̊arad|lang}}) is a feminine given name in the Welsh language, having a long association with Welsh royalty, history and myth. It translates into English as much loved one. In Welsh mythology, Angharad Golden-Hand is the lover of Peredur in the myth cycle The Mabinogion.
[http://www.lib.rochester.edu/CAMELOT/peredur.htm "Peredur the Son of Evrawc"] (translation by Lady Charlotte Guest), The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/mab10.htm#page_100 "Peredur the Son of Evrawc"]. The Mabinogion, transl. Lady Charlotte Guest [1877], sacred-texts.com, pp. 100, 105. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
Historical figures
There have been a number of historical or semi-historical Angharads, most notably the daughter of Owain Gwynedd (1100–1170), King of Gwynedd, who married Gruffydd Maelor. Other historical Angharads include ({{lang|cy|ferch}} signifies {{gloss|daughter of}}):
- Angharad ferch Meurig, wife of Rhodri the Great (820–878)
- Angharad ferch Llywelyn, daughter of Llywelyn the Great (1173–1240), Prince of Wales
- Angharad ferch Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, sister to Gruffydd II ap Madog, Lord of Dinas Bran
- Angharad ferch Maredudd ab Owain, wife of Llywelyn ap Seisyll, King of Gwynedd and of Deheubarth
- Angharad ferch Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132–1197)
- Angharad ferch Gruffydd II ap Madog, Lord of Dinas Bran
- Angharad of Brittany, wife of Idwal Iwrch
- Angharad, daughter of Rhydderch Hael, a 6th-century king of Strathclyde
People
- Angharad Evans (born 2003), English swimmer
- Angharad Gatehouse (born 1954), British entomologist
- Angharad James (poet) (1677–1749), Welsh poet
- Angharad James (footballer) (born 1994), Welsh football player
- Angharad Llwyd (1780–1866), Welsh historian
- Angharad Mair (born 1960), Welsh television presenter
- Angharad Mason (born 1979), Welsh cyclist
- Angharad Price (born 1972), Welsh academic and novelist
- Angharad Rees (1944–2012), Welsh actress
- Angharad Tomos (born 1958), Welsh author
Fiction
- Angharad, mother of Princess Eilonwy in Lloyd Alexander's fictional land of Prydain
- Angharad, fictional character in The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey
- Angharad, fictional character in The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
- Angharad, fictional character in Into the Green by Charles de Lint
- Angharad, fictional character in Juniper by Monica Furlong
- Angharad, fictional character in How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
- Angharad, fictional character in the King Raven Trilogy, by Stephen R. Lawhead
- Angharad, fictional character in Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters
- The Splendid Angharad, fictional character in the film Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
- Angharrad, fictional horse in the young adult series Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness
- Angharad, sister of fictional character David in the book The Blue Rose by Kate Forsyth
- Angharad is Queen Guenièvre's lady's maid in the television series Kaamelott
- Angharad Scott, fictional character in the book Piranesi (novel) by Susanna Clarke
- Angharad, fictional character in A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
- Angharad, offscreen fictional character in the film I am love by Luca Guadagnino
- Angharad, fictional village in Louisa M. Spooner's novel Country Landlords (1860)