Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel It has been conclusively shown that he was the son of Llywelyn ap Maredudd, the last vassal lord of Meirionydd, who had been deprived of his patrimony for opposing Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1256 (see Llywelyn Fawr and Llywelyn Fychan - lords of Meirionydd). Llywelyn lived in England as a royal pensioner, and after his death in 1263, Madog continued in favour at the English court. During the year
MADOG BENFRAS (fl. c. 1320-1360), poet of Marchwiail, Denbighshire. His pedigree is given in Powys Fadog thus: ' Madog Benfras ap Gruffudd ap Iorwerth, arglwydd Sonlli, ab Einion Goch ab Ieuaf ap Llywarch ap Ieuaf ap Niniaw ap Cynfrig ap Rhiwallawn.' His two brothers, Llywelyn Llogell (parish priest of Marchwiail), and Ednyfed, were also poets; according to Iolo Morganwg their bardic teacher was Llywelyn ap Gwilym of Emlyn. Iolo also
MADOG FYCHAN ap MADOG ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1269), son and brother to the Princes of Powys Fadog Grandson of Gruffydd Maelor I, and brother of Gruffydd Maelor II. When his father died in 1236 Madog Fychan joined in the subsequent partition of Powys Fadog. He adopted the same attitude as Gruffydd Maelor I to the major political problems of the time; in 1245 he is found among the allies of Dafydd ap Llywelyn, and in 1258 he is on the side of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. The fact that his surety for
MAELGWN ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1173), prince of Anglesey Son of Owain Gwynedd by Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn, uterine brother of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, and uncle of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the partition of his father's dominions he received Anglesey, but was driven out of the island in 1173 by his half-brother, Dafydd. He fled to Ireland, returned later in the year, and was made a prisoner. His subsequent fate is unknown.
MAELGWN ap RHYS (d. 1295), rebel of 1294 a son of Rhys Fychan, last lord of Geneu'r Glyn in north Cardiganshire, and a descendant of Maelgwn ap Rhys ap Gruffydd. When in 1294 a general uprising against alien rule broke out in Wales, led by Madog ap Llywelyn in North Wales, and Morgan in Glamorgan, Maelgwn assumed the leadership of the insurgents in Cardiganshire. The campaign in west Wales comprised a hard, but unsuccessful, siege of
MAELGWN ap RHYS (c. 1170 - 1230), lord of Ceredigion ancestral lands, to the embarrassment of his brother Gruffydd, his bitterest foe, and after 1201, when Gruffydd died, of his nephews Rhys and Owain. By allying with Gwenwynwyn and king John he secured, in 1199, the lordship of Ceredigion, only to be deprived of the northern commotes by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1207. It was his failure to recover this lost territory after helping John to win a victory over
MAREDUDD ab OWAIN ab EDWIN (d. 1072), king of Deheubarth He stood five generations from Hywel Dda and was second cousin in the senior line to Rhys ap Tewdwr. When Gruffudd ap Llywelyn fell in 1063, the old dynasty was restored under his leadership. His reign coincides with the first impact of the Norman conquest on South Wales. After a brief and unequal struggle, he acquiesced in the conquest of the border lands of Gwent and was rewarded by grants of
MAREDUDD ab OWAIN ap HYWEL DDA (d. 999), king of Deheubarth Llywelyn, whose mother, Angharad, was Maredudd's daughter.
MAREDUDD ap CYNAN ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1212), lord of Eifionydd, part of Ardudwy, and Merioneth and co-founder of the Cistercian house of Cymmer From 1173-94 he was lord of Eifionydd and part of Ardudwy, a fact noted by Gerald the Welshman when he passed through the district in 1188. He received Merioneth also from his brother Gruffydd (probably in 1194) when the latter shared the spoils of victory in Gwynedd with his cousin Llywelyn ap Iorwerth whose career in its initial stages owed much to the support of the sons of Cynan. When
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), Marshal of the castle of Cardigan, giving it to William de London in 1207. But in 1211 William was summoned to the king's aid in an expedition against the Welsh and his English and Welsh castles were returned to him. Next year he took part on the king's side in the war against Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. Back in royal favour, he was restored to the castle of Haverford on 19 October 1213 and, next year, to the
MATHEW ap LLYWELYN GOCH (fl. middle of the 16th century), poet

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