Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
MAREDUDD ap IEUAN ap ROBERT ap MAREDUDD Gwydir (fl. end of 15th century) - see WYNN
MAREDUDD ap MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - see MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
MAREDUDD ap RHOSER (fl. c. 1530), poet who may have been a native of South Wales. No proof is available for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg did, with Meisgyn (Miskin) in Glamorgan. Examples of his work exist in MSS., including a love poem, an awdl in praise of Ewyas, an elegy to Sir Charles Herbert, another to reconcile William Herbert of Colebrook with William Siôn ap Rhoser of Wern-ddu, and poems in praise of William Evans
MAREDUDD ap RHYS - see MEREDYDD ap RHYS
MAREDUDD ap RHYS GRYG (d. 1271), prince of Deheubarth sanctuary in Gwynedd, he accompanied Llywelyn ap Gruffydd on his victorious expeditions of 1256, his reward being lands round Llanbadarn and Cantref Buellt. He took a leading part in the Welsh victory of Cymerau (1257), but Rhys Fychan having come over to the Welsh side in the course of the battle, Maredudd's sympathies veered in the opposite direction as early as October 1257. Though he participated in
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), him position and lands in England, Ireland, and Normandy as well as in Pembroke and Gwent. Henceforward, he, and his sons after him, played an important role in the political and military history of Wales and the Marches. During the campaign of Rhys ap Gruffydd in 1192 against the Normans of South Wales he was one of the leaders of the Norman expedition which raised the siege of Swansea castle and
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, descended the lines of Llandaff and Radyr frequently connected by inter-marriage. The influence of the stock developed after Bosworth under the protection of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, who married Janet Mathew. It declined after the death, in 1557, of Sir GEORGE MATHEW of Radyr, M.P., and sheriff. Other considerable figures in the political life of Glamorgan were the brothers Sir DAVID MATHEW of St. Fagans (died
MATHEW ap LLYWELYN GOCH (fl. middle of the 16th century), poet At least two of his poems survive, addressed to members of North Wales families - Wiliam Siôn of Penarth, and Oliver ap Tomas of Neuadd-wen, Llanerfyl.
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa kindred, the one lineally descended of Owen Gwynedd, prince of Wales, consisting then and now of four houses, viz., Keselgyfarch, y Llys ynghefn y fann, now called Ystymkegid, Clenenny, and Brynkir, Glasfryn or Cwmstrallyn; the other sect descended of Collwyn [ap Tangno], wherof are five houses or more, viz. Whelog, Berkin, Bron-y-foel, Gwynfryn, Talhenbont, and the house of Hugh Gwyn ap John Wynne ap
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician was the eldest son of Moris ap Elise (died 1575) of Clenennau, a member of an old Caernarvonshire family which, in the course of the last century had accumulated the most extensive and compact freehold estate in south Caernarvonshire, centred on the manor house of Clenennau (built c. 1550) and extending into Anglesey and Merioneth. Maurice, the first of the family to adopt the English form of
MEILYR ap GWALCHMAI, poet - see GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR

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