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IESTYN ap GWRGANT
(fl. c. 1081-1093), last independent ruler of Glamorgan
Son of Gwrgant ab Ithel. Little is known with certainty about him. Cardiff seems to have been his seat of government, but the extent of his territory is unknown. He cannot have become supreme in Glamorgan until 1081, when Caradog ap Gruffydd, who ruled Glamorgan from c. 1075, was slain. In 1080,
Iestyn
was sufficiently insignificant to appear as a minor witness attesting a grant of land made to
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
EINION ap COLLWYN
(fl. 1100?), prince and warrior
According to tradition, he quarrelled with
Iestyn
ap Gwrgant, and in consequence invited the Normans to invade Glamorgan. He is a semi-legendary figure, and it is significant that at least three different accounts of his descent are given us. According to one story, he was the son of Collwyn ap Gwaethfoed of Ceredigion; another makes him the son of Cadifor ap Collwyn of Dyfed; while poets like
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
(d. c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan
charters which Morgan gave to Margam abbey, Lleision and OWAIN are frequently mentioned as co-donors with their father. It would seem that Owain died before Lleision, but dates are uncertain, many of the charters being undated or wrongly dated. Welsh sub-lordships under the suzerainty of the Norman lords of Glamorgan were granted to other members of
Iestyn
ap Gwrgant's family. To MAREDUDD ap Caradog ap
IAGO ab IDWAL ap MEURIG
(d. 1039), king of Gwynedd
a great grandson of Idwal Foel. After successive usurpations of legitimate authority in Gwynedd between 986 and 1033 (see Maredudd ap Owain, Llywelyn ap Seisyll, Rhydderch ap
Iestyn
) the old line was restored in the person of Iago. A brief rule of six years ended in his murder and replacement by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn ap Seisyll. His son, Cynan, was the father of Gruffudd ap Cynan who finally re
HYWEL ab EDWIN
(d. 1044), king of Deheubarth
son of Edwin ab Einion and great-grandson of Hywel Dda. When, in 1033, the usurper, Rhydderch ap
Iestyn
died, Hywel and his brother Maredudd, as senior heirs of Hywel Dda, became joint kings of Deheubarth. Maredudd's death in 1035 left Hywel sole ruler, and on him fell the brunt of defending the south against the Vikings and the northern usurper, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn. Expelled by Gruffudd in 1042
MORGAN ap HYWEL
(fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon
under the earls of Gloucester (lords of Glamorgan), a descendant of Rhydderch ap
Iestyn
ap Gwrgant. It may be useful to enter under his name a note on his family, compiled from Lloyd, A History of Wales (see the genealogy on p. 771 of that work). Caradog ap Gruffudd, grandson of Rhydderch ap
Iestyn
, was killed in the battle of Mynydd Cam (1081). By 1140 we hear of Caradog's son, OWAIN AP CARADOG
MORGAN GAM
(d. 1241), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan
son of Morgan ap Caradog ap
Iestyn
, probably by Gwenllian, daughter of Ifor Bach. He succeeded his elder brother, Lleision, c. 1213, and, reverting to his father's policy of alliance with the Welsh princes, well served the interests of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth by harassing the Clare lords of Glamorgan. He married, according to the pedigrees, (1) Janet, daughter of Elidyr Ddu, (2) Ellen, daughter of
MORGAN
(fl. 1294), rebel
He was the leader of the Glamorgan insurgents during the rising of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294-5. Owing to personal grievances against the De Clares, he claimed to be at war only against the lords of Glamorgan. He may, therefore, have been Morgan ap Maredudd, a direct descendant of Rhydderch ap
Iestyn
; his father, Maredudd, the last native lord of Caerleon, had been deprived twenty years earlier by
IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION
(fl. c. 1450) Baglan, poet and gentleman
A descendant of the family of Caradog ap
Iestyn
ap Gwrgant. According to some genealogists (e.g. Gruffudd Hiraethog in Peniarth MS 178, i (43)) he married the daughter of Tomas ab Ifor Hael. Bards from North and South Wales were entertained at his court at Baglan, and two cywyddau addressed to him remain in manuscript, one by Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain, and the other by Iorwerth Fynglwyd. A
DAFYDD DARON
(fl. 1400), dean of Bangor
, following Le Neve, says he was outlawed, as a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in 1406, and adds, on his own information, that he was 'a wealthy man and son of Evan ap David ap Griffith, a descendant of Caradoc ap
Iestyn
.' More questionable is the assertion that he was the man in whose house the famous Tripartite Indenture was signed. According to the chronicler Hall, the sole authority for the place of
GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH ap IESTYN
(d. 1055), king
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