GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH ap IESTYN (died 1055), king
Date of death: 1055
Child: Caradog ap Gruffydd ap Rhydderch
Parent: Rhydderch ab Iestyn
Gender: Male
Occupation: king
Area of activity: Politics, Government and Political Movements; Royalty and Society
Author: Thomas Jones Pierce
When Gruffudd ap Llywelyn took possession of Deheubarth in 1044, the South found a new focus of resistance in the leadership of Gruffydd ap Rhydderch. Independence was thus retrieved in 1045, and for ten years, until his fall in 1055, Gruffydd gave to his adopted 'patria' a vigorous government in which resistance to the Danes was a prominent feature. The sanction for his intervention in the affairs of Deheubarth came in part from his father's successful usurpation of power there during the years 1023-33. Gruffydd, moreover, was already a ' king ' in Glamorgan, probably over Gwynllwg, where his descendants enjoyed restricted power down to 1270.
Author
- Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, (1905 - 1964)
- J. E. Lloyd, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (London 1911), 361-4, table 771
- The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1899-1900, 122 et seq
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Gruffydd ap Rhydderch
Further Reading
- Wikidata: Q2454709
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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