Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CADWALLON ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - see MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
CARADOG ap GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH (d. 1081) The grandson of Rhydderch ap Iestyn, powerful in South Wales until his death in 1033, and the son of Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, the rival of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, by whom he was slain in 1055. The home of the family would seem to have been Gwynllwg and Upper Gwent. It is in this quarter of Wales that Caradog makes his first appearance in 1065, when he swooped upon earl Harold's new hunting lodge at
CARADOG ap IESTYN (fl. 1130), founder of the family of 'Avene' in Glamorgan He was a son of Iestyn ap Gwrgant. Iestyn is known to history from two entries in Liber Landavensis; in the first he appears low down in the list of lay witnesses to a grant in Edlygion made to bishop Herwald by Caradog ap Gruffydd; in the second he is himself a ruler, with a warband for whose misdeeds he makes amends to the same bishop by the gift of a manor in the Ely valley. It would
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist one daughter, Dalis (born 1966), and two sons, Rhodri (born 1967) and Iestyn (1969-1993). They were divorced in 1975. Cayo was radicalized in the early 1960s, particularly by the flooding of the village of Capel Celyn. It was on the day that the Tryweryn dam was opened, on 21 October 1965, that members of the Free Wales Army were seen in public in their uniforms for the first time. Cayo was one of
CLARE family under Morgan ap Caradog ap Iestyn - and built a castle at Llantrisant to control the commote. Even more important was his son GILBERT IV (1243 - 1295), ' the Red Earl ' born 2 September 1243; his first wife was Alice de Valence, of the family which had succeeded the Marshal's in the earldom of Pembroke. The Red Earl's father and grandfather, absorbed in the baronial struggle with the Crown, had been
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor , following Le Neve, says he was outlawed, as a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in 1406, and adds, on his own information, that he was 'a wealthy man and son of Evan ap David ap Griffith, a descendant of Caradoc ap Iestyn.' More questionable is the assertion that he was the man in whose house the famous Tripartite Indenture was signed. According to the chronicler Hall, the sole authority for the place of
EINION ap COLLWYN (fl. 1100?), prince and warrior According to tradition, he quarrelled with Iestyn ap Gwrgant, and in consequence invited the Normans to invade Glamorgan. He is a semi-legendary figure, and it is significant that at least three different accounts of his descent are given us. According to one story, he was the son of Collwyn ap Gwaethfoed of Ceredigion; another makes him the son of Cadifor ap Collwyn of Dyfed; while poets like
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales 1042 Hywel defeated a host of ' Black Gentiles ' at Pwlldyfach (today, Pwlldyfarch), near Carmarthen. Two years later (1044), Hywel brought with him from Ireland a fleet of the ' Black Gentiles,' but he was slain in a fierce encounter with Gruffudd in the estuary of the Towy. Even after this Gruffudd failed to gain possession of Deheubarth; Gruffydd ap Rhydderch ap Iestyn rose up against him
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh . Next it was the turn of Gruffudd's rival Hywel ab Edwin to recruit a Viking force from Ireland in 1044. The two men met in battle at the river Tywi, where Hywel was defeated and slain. New rivals appeared in the south in the brothers Gruffudd and Rhys, the sons of Rhydderch ab Iestyn. They might have held power in Deheubarth through an alliance with the northern prince because a laconic notice circa
GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH ap IESTYN (d. 1055), king
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer joined a contemporary folk group called Ac Eraill whose other members included Cleif Harpwood, Iestyn Garlick, Tecwyn Ifan and Phil 'Bach' Edwards. When the National Eisteddfod visited Carmarthen in 1974, Alun and the other members of Ac Eraill wrote and composed the first Welsh language rock opera, Nia Ben Aur, which was performed on the Eisteddfod's main stage. When Ac Eraill disbanded in 1974, Alun
HYWEL ab EDWIN (d. 1044), king of Deheubarth son of Edwin ab Einion and great-grandson of Hywel Dda. When, in 1033, the usurper, Rhydderch ap Iestyn died, Hywel and his brother Maredudd, as senior heirs of Hywel Dda, became joint kings of Deheubarth. Maredudd's death in 1035 left Hywel sole ruler, and on him fell the brunt of defending the south against the Vikings and the northern usurper, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn. Expelled by Gruffudd in 1042

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