Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHISIERDYN (fl. latter half of the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet awdl to Sir Hywel y Fwyall. The awdl to the abbot of Aberconwy which The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales attributes to Casnodyn is given in NLW MS 4973B 260b to Rhisierdyn, and Peniarth MS 118 (140) attributes to Rhisierdyn the pious ode 'y Duw uchaf y Kyfarchaf …' which is ascribed in R. B. H. Poetry (col. 1251) to Bleddyn Ddu. Many manuscripts (e.g. Bodl. 1 and 2, Peniarth MS 90 and Peniarth MS 100
RHODRI MAWR (d. 877), king of Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth during this crisis. It would appear that he died in battle against the Saxons, leaving six sons of whom two became founders of medieval dynasties, Anarawd of the house of Aberffraw, and Cadell, father of Hywel Dda, of the house of Dinefwr.
RHODRI MOLWYNOG (d. 754), king of Gwynedd son of Idwal son of Cadwaladr (died 664) of the line of Cunedda Wledig. He was succeeded by two sons, Hywel (died 825) and Cynan.
RHYS ab OWAIN ab EDWIN (d. 1078), king of Deheubarth Great-grandson of Einion ab Owain ap Hywel Dda, and the last representative in the senior line of descent from Hywel. Having succeeded his brother, Maredudd, in 1072, he was involved in the death of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn in 1075, and in 1078 he was himself defeated at Goodwick by Trahaearn ap Caradog. Later in the year he met his end at the hands of Caradog ap Gruffydd, and was succeeded by his
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1356), nobleman Son of Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd ab Ednyfed Fychan by Nest, daughter of Gwrwared ap Gwilym of Cemais. He was the wealthiest and most influential figure among the native gentry of the 14th century, and in his career is crystallized the attitude and aspirations of those members of his class who lent support to the Angevin cause in Wales during the first century of the English settlement. It
RHYS AP TEWDWR (d. 1093), king of Deheubarth (1078-1093) He was the son of Tewdwr ap Cadell and thus a descendant of the great tenth-century prince Hywel Dda, but no one from his direct male line had held the kingship since the tenth century. Rhys's rise to power benefitted from the stalled Norman advance into southern Wales after 1075 as well as the efforts of his distant cousin Caradog ap Gruffudd (lord of Gwent Uch Coed and Iscoed) to eliminate
RHYS ap TEWDWR (d. 1093) Grandson of Cadell ab Einion ab Owain ap Hywel Dda. In 1075 he took possession of Deheubarth on the death of his second-cousin, Rhys ab Owain ab Edwin. In 1081 he was dislodged by Caradog ap Gruffydd, but later in the year, with the help of Gruffudd ap Cynan, he was firmly reinstated after the historic battle of Mynydd Carn. In the same year William the Conqueror made a demonstration of power in
RHYS PENNARDD (fl. c. 1480), a poet it is said that he lived either at Conway or at Clynnog, Caernarfonshire, and that he was buried at Llandrillo, Meironnydd. A number of his poems remain in manuscript, including cywyddau addressed to Elisau ap Gruffudd ab Einion of Plas yn Iâl, Gruffudd Fychan ap Hywel ap Madog, and Rhys ap Hywel ap Madog of Talhenbont, Hywel Ddu of Anglesey and his wife Mallt, and also to William, constable of
RHYS, HYWEL (1715? - 1799), poet
RICHARD ap JOHN (fl. 1578-1611) Scorlegan, Llangynhafal, gentleman, poet, patron of bards, and copyist He traced his pedigree through Edwin ap Grono to Hywel Dda and Rhodri Mawr. His father, John Wyn ap Robert ap Griffith, was a waiter in the queen's ewry, but he died of the plague before the children, Richard, John Wyn, and Catherine, had reached their majority. Lewis ab Edward and Gruffudd Hiraethog wrote elegies on his death. The children and their mother, Margaret, daughter of Griffith ab
RICHARDS, GRAFTON MELVILLE (1910 - 1973), Welsh scholar meaning and significance in a comprehensive Welsh onomasticon. The research took him to a range of fields of study - the history of governance and administration, of legal custom and structures, settlement patterns and demography, toponyms as well as the more strictly linguistic area. He published The Laws of Hywel Dda (1954), a translation of Llyfr Blegywryd (Williams and Powell, 1942), a medieval
RICHARDS, JEDEDIAH (1784? - 1838), hymnist and itinerant bookseller buddiol … ynghyd a Hymnau (Carmarthen, 1823); Marwnad David Evans, Morfa (Caernarvon, 1825); Marwnad … Ebenezer Morris, Blaen y Wern, Troed yr Aur (Caernarvon, 1825), Golwg ar Ddrych y Greadigaeth (Aberystwyth, 1826); Hanes Ymneillduwyr Protestanaidd (Carmarthen, 1826); Palmer's Catechism (Carmarthen, 1827); Casgliad o Hymnau, sef Pleser y Pererinion (Cardigan, 1827); Cofiant byr D. Dafis, Castell Hywel

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