Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
ROBINSON family Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, John Wynn's father he translated into Latin the Welsh life of Gruffudd ap Cynan (printed Archæologia Cambrensis, III, xii, 30, 112), and wrote an unpublished treatise on Welsh church history. He died 13 February 1585, and was buried in his cathedral; the memorial brass, plundered in the Civil War, was replaced by another in 1843. He has been called ' one of the chief pioneers of the Reformation in
TALIESIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), bard addressed to Urien and his son Owain and an eulogy to Gwallawg ap Lleenawg and also to Cynan Garwyn ap Brochfael, father of the Selyf who was killed at the battle of Chester (613 or 615). These ancient poems number about a dozen, but the manuscript contains many poems which cannot be dated before the 9th and the 10th centuries. The latter must be ignored but a strong case can be made for the older dozen
TRAHAEARN ap CARADOG (d. 1081), king of Gwynedd at a low ebb. On Bleddyn's death in 1075, he seized authority in Gwynedd. Challenged by Gruffudd ap Cynan, the representative of the old Venedotian house, he was defeated at Dyffryn Glyngin in Meirionydd, but later in the year he retrieved himself at Bron yr Erw and drove Gruffudd into second exile in Ireland. In 1078 he invaded South Wales and killed its king (Rhys ab Owain) at Goodwick. The

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