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
ANGHARAD (d. 1162) She was the wife of Gruffudd ap Cynan, was a daughter of Owain ab Edwin, a chieftain of eastern Gwynedd. She married Gruffudd about 1095, during his early struggle for power, and survived her husband many years, dying in 1162. Their children were Cadwallon (died 1132), Owain (Gwynedd), and Cadwaladr, and five daughters, named Gwenllian, Marared (Margaret), Rainillt, Susanna, and Annest. Of these
CADELL ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1175) The son of Gruffydd ap Rhys (died 1137). He is first heard of in 1138, when, with his brother Anarawd and Owain and Cadwaladr of Gwynedd, he brought a Viking fleet of fifteen ships, no doubt from Dublin, to the mouth of the Teify, in a vain endeavour to capture Cardigan, the last foothold left to the Normans in Ceredigion. During the next few years he was overshadowed by his elder brother, but
CADWALADR (d. 1172), prince success; in 1138 they failed, even with the aid of a Danish flotilla, to break down the persistence of the garrison of Cardigan, and Cadwaladr was content to reap the fruits of victory and to occupy northern Ceredigion as his share of the spoil. A little later he appears in a somewhat surprising light as an ally of earl Randolph II of Chester in the attack upon Lincoln of 2 February 1141, which resulted
CADWALADR (d. 664), prince He was the son of Cadwallon ap Cadfan. On his father's death in 633, Gwynedd fell under the power of an adventurer, Cadafael ap Cynfedw, whose rule seems to have ended with his ignominious retreat from the battlefield of Winwed Field in 654. Cadwaladr then came to his own, but fell a victim to the great pestilence of 664. Uneventful as was his reign, he became a great figure in later bardic lore
CADWALADR ap RHYS TREFNANT (fl. 1600), poet
CADWALADR CESAIL (fl. 1620), poet
CADWALADR, Sir RHYS (fl. 1666-1690), cleric and poet
CADWALADR, BETSI - see DAVIS, ELIZABETH
CADWALADR, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Second son of Cadwaladr and Catherine Dafydd, of Erw Ddinmael, Llangwm, Denbighshire; the family had lived on the holding for generations, and was typical of the region, delighting in 'interludes' and knitting-meetings. Dafydd was himself a versifier in his youth, but had to teach himself reading by noting the letters on sheeps' backs and then picking his way through the Prayer Book; he became a
CADWALADR, EDWARD (fl. 16th century), poet Two of his poems have been preserved, an englyn in reply to one by David Cadwaladr (Peniarth MS 93 (204)) and a religious poem in free metre (NLW MS 11990A (153)).
CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet

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