Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BLEDDYN ap CYNFYN (d. 1075), prince . His career was cut short in 1075, when Rhys ab Owain and the nobles of Ystrad Tywi contrived his death. The tragedy was much deplored in Mid Wales, and when his cousin, Trahaearn ap Caradog, defeated Rhys (1078) in the battle of Goodwick and drove him into headlong flight, it was held to have been signally avenged. High praise is bestowed upon Bleddyn by the chronicle which was now kept at
CADWALLON ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - see MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
CARADOG (fl. 1135) LLANCARFAN, man of letters He is best known from the reference at the end of 'The History of the Kings of Britain' by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Writing about 1135, Geoffrey allows Caradog to use as literary material the story of the kings who ruled in Wales after 689, when he closes his detailed narrative, and similarly gives leave to William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon to recite the history of the English kings. The
CARADOG - see JONES, GRIFFITH RHYS
CARADOG - see JONES, JOSEPH
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
CARADOG FYNACH (d. 1124), recluse Pembrokeshire, which was to be his next place of retreat, he found too open to Scandinavian attack, and the bishop of S. Davids gave him instead a hermitage at the church of S. Ismaels in Rhos, now known as Haroldston S. Issels. Here he spent the rest of his life, though room must be found for a visit to Bardsey, if he is to be identified with the 'master Caradog, a very learned man' who came to the island to
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
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1858 - 1943), singer Born 6 January 1858 at Pontardawe, Glamorgan - the family moved later to Cwmbwrla near Swansea - son of John and Hannah Davies. He won his first prize as a singer at the age of five. He sang alto in ' Côr Caradog ' and won several prizes in eisteddfodau. In 1878 he won a scholarship which took him to the Royal Academy of Music where he gained several medals and became F.R.A.M. Appointed chief
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist letters of introduction to other artists in London, whither Ellis had gone in 1834 to study and to paint. Some of his work was exhibited in the galleries in London, and he won a number of art prizes. ' The Battle of Rhuddlan Marsh,' ' Caradog before Caesar in Rome,' and ' The Fall of Llywelyn the last Prince of Wales,' are three of his titles. The works by which he is best known in Wales are (a) the
ETHÉ, CARL HERMANN (1844 - 1917), scholar through the intervention of the Home Office. Ethé was to continue in his post at Aberystwyth, and also to work for the Foreign Office. The couple reached Aberystwyth on 13 October 1914, but a day after their return, printed leaflets urged the town's inhabitants to assemble at the Tabernacle Chapel and besiege the professor's house in Caradog Road. The call was answered by a mob of over 2,000 people, who

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