Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
SEISYLL ap CLYDOG (fl. 730), king of the combined realm of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi applied to the enlarged dominion created by Seisyll, the Deheubarth of the central period of the Middle Ages possessed by the descendants of Cadell ap Rhodri the Great. Dynastic continuity was maintained in this area by Rhodri's marriage to Angharad, a sister of Gwgon ap Meurig, the last king of the old line of Seisyllwg (died 871), who were both great-great-grandchildren of Seisyll.
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library translated 'Brut y Tywysogion' into English. He published at Oxford in 1662 a small book entitled British Antiquities Revived, containing a refutation of Sir Thomas Canon's arguments that Cadell was the eldest son of Rhodri Mawr and that, consequently, the princes of Deheubarth had superiority over those of Gwynedd, a correction of the pedigree of the earl of Carbery as given in Percy Enderbie's Cambria

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