Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1143), prince Letterston had persecuted the clergy and people of the Pebidiog peninsula. In 1138, with his brother Cadell, he joined Owain and Cadwaladr, now dominating Ceredigion, in an attack upon Cardigan castle which was still held by the Normans; a formidable array of Viking ships appeared in furtherance of the enterprise at the mouth of the Teify, but hostilities were suspended by a truce and nothing came of 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
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
CYNGEN, (d. 855), prince was the son of Cadell, ruler of Powys, who died in 808. He was of the line of Brochwel Ysgithrog, and, after a long reign, ended his life as a pilgrim at Rome, being, as far as is known, the first Welsh prince to make the journey after the submission of Wales to papal authority. His only title to fame is that he erected, in a valley in Iâl, afterwards known as Pant y Groes and Valle Crucis, an
DUNAWD (fl. 6th century), saint Welsh tradition relates that Dunawd, son of Pabo Post Prydain of the line of Coel Godebog, was originally a North British chieftain, whom the triads call one of the three battle-pillars ('tri post câd') of his country. Dwywai, daughter of Lleënog, was his wife. Driven from his territory, Dunawd fled into North Wales where Cyngen, son of Cadell Deyrnllwg, prince of Powys, gave him his protection
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
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
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
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
MERFYN FRYCH (d. 844), king of Gwynedd in Gwynedd of the line of Cunedda Wledig. He married Nest, daughter of Cadell ap Brochwel of Powys. Rhodri Mawr was their son.
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
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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