Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CADELL ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1175) combination of forces. Cadell and his young brothers joined the Fitzgeralds of Pembroke in an attack upon Wiston, the castle of Walter Fitzwiz, in which success was achieved with the help of Hywel ab Owain. Having in 1150 put Carmarthen in a state of defence and protected it by a raid upon the region of Kidwelly, he was emboldened to attack the northern hold upon Ceredigion, and it was not long ere Cadell
MERFYN FRYCH (d. 844), king of Gwynedd son of Gwriad, probably a Manx chieftain and a reputed descendant of Llywarch Hen, by Ethyllt, a princess of Gwynedd. On the death, in 825, of Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, his mother's uncle, he became king in Anglesey, and later, on the death of Hywel ap Caradog, appears to have acquired the kingship of the adjacent mainland cantrefs. Thus were united the inheritances of the last direct descendants
RHODRI MAWR (d. 877), king of Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth Son of Merfyn Frych by Nest, daughter of Cadell ap Brochwel of Powys. He succeeded his father as king of Gwynedd in 844. In 855, on the death of his uncle, Cyngen, he became king of Powys, and in 872, when Gwgon, king Seisyllwg (Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi) and brother to his wife, Angharad, died, the southern realm came under his rule. There was thus created for the first time a loose union of at
HYWEL ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1170), soldier and poet Cadwaladr was reinstated. In 1145 Hywel and his half-brother Cynan tried unsuccessfully to storm Cardigan castle, which had remained in Norman hands. In 1146 Hywel joined forces with Cadell of Deheubarth against the Normans of West Wales; they took the castles of Carmarthen, Llanstephan, and Wiston. In 1147 Hywel and Cynan drove Cadwaladr out of Meirionydd. When Cadwaladr handed over northern Ceredigion
RHYS ap TEWDWR (d. 1093) Grandson of Cadell ab Einion ab Owain ap Hywel Dda. In 1075 he took possession of Deheubarth on the death of his second-cousin, Rhys ab Owain ab Edwin. In 1081 he was dislodged by Caradog ap Gruffydd, but later in the year, with the help of Gruffudd ap Cynan, he was firmly reinstated after the historic battle of Mynydd Carn. In the same year William the Conqueror made a demonstration of power in
MAREDUDD ap GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (1130 - 1155), prince of Deheubarth Eldest son of Gruffydd ap Rhys by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan. Six years old when his father died in 1137, he came into prominence at 16 assisting an older half-brother, Cadell, in freeing southern Ceredigion of the Normans, and in defending the recently captured fortress of Carmarthen. In 1151 he took a leading part in driving the men of Gwynedd back beyond the Dovey, and in the
ANARAWD ap RHODRI (d. 916), prince with English help that in 895 he ravaged Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi, held most likely by his brother Cadell. He died in 916, to be succeeded by his son Idwal Foel (the Bald). From Anarawd were descended the later rulers of Gwynedd, as those of Deheubarth were from Cadell. It was but to be expected that the men of the South should later contend that Cadell was the elder of the two, but the evidence is
HYWEL DDA (d. 950), king and legislator He was generally called ' Hywel the Good, son of Cadell, prince of all Wales,' and in 'Brut y Tywysogion' he is called ' the head and cynosure of all the Britons.' He is the only Welsh prince to have been called 'the Good.' He was born towards the end of the 9th century but the place of his birth is unknown. Cadell was one of the sons of Rhodri the Great, and his inheritance was the southern part
RHYS AP TEWDWR (d. 1093), king of Deheubarth (1078-1093) He was the son of Tewdwr ap Cadell and thus a descendant of the great tenth-century prince Hywel Dda, but no one from his direct male line had held the kingship since the tenth century. Rhys's rise to power benefitted from the stalled Norman advance into southern Wales after 1075 as well as the efforts of his distant cousin Caradog ap Gruffudd (lord of Gwent Uch Coed and Iscoed) to eliminate
SEISYLL ap CLYDOG (fl. 730), king of the combined realm of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi applied to the enlarged dominion created by Seisyll, the Deheubarth of the central period of the Middle Ages possessed by the descendants of Cadell ap Rhodri the Great. Dynastic continuity was maintained in this area by Rhodri's marriage to Angharad, a sister of Gwgon ap Meurig, the last king of the old line of Seisyllwg (died 871), who were both great-great-grandchildren of Seisyll.
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (c. 1090 - 1137), prince of Deheubarth brief intermission in 1127, involving a second exile in Ireland, he appears to have lived a quiet existence there until after Henry's death. There also no doubt were born Maredudd and Rhys, his sons by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, Anarawd and Cadell being evidently children of an earlier union. In the general revolt which spread throughout Wales when Henry died, he took a prominent part
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (Yr Arglwydd Rhys, The lord Rhys), (1132 - 1197), lord of Deheubarth Younger son of Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Tewdwr by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan. He was only 4 years old when his father died and leadership of the revolt against Norman rule in South Wales passed to his half-brothers - Anarawd and Cadell. As a youth of 13 he appears with his elder brother, Maredudd, fighting under Cadell's direction in 1146. The next ten years saw the old kingdom of

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