Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
DEINIOL (d. 584), saint, founder of Bangor and first bishop in Gwynedd son of Dunawd son of Pabo Post Prydyn, of the same royal line as Urien Rheged - Dwyai, daughter of Gwallog ap Lleenog was not his mother but his second cousin. As Deiniol and Maelgwn Gwynedd were contemporaries, so were his grandfather Pabo and the sons of Cunedda Wledig. Pabo, then, must have accompanied them to Wales, not because of any loss of territory but in order to acquire more. According
MAELGWN GWYNEDD (d. c. 547), king of Gwynedd and monk ' Maglocunus, the island dragon,' a martial prince who has overthrown many other rulers. Tall of stature (cf. his sobriquet ' Maelgwn Hir,' ' Maelgwn the Tall') and excelling most contemporary princes in power, he was an able military leader, impetuous and generous by nature, but given to many failings and deeds of violence. In his early years he overthrew his maternal uncle, whose identity is unknown, but
MAELGWN ap RHYS (c. 1170 - 1230), lord of Ceredigion Llywelyn in 1211 which no doubt induced him to pass over to Llywelyn's side. The latter's continued distrust, nevertheless, is seen in the partition of the 'lord' Rhys's dominions made under Llywelyn's supervision in 1216, when Maelgwn was excluded from all territory lying north of the Aeron. He died at Llannerch-aeron late in the year 1230, and was buried at Strata Florida, being succeeded by his son
SEIRIOL (fl. c. 500- c. 550), founder and first abbot of Penmon church son of Owain Danwyn ab Einion Yrth ap Cunedda Wledig, and so a second cousin of king Maelgwn Gwynedd and of the same age as the latter. According to Anglesey tradition, he was a great friend of Saint Cybi. Seiriol was the chief saint of the Dindaethwy district in Anglesey and also of Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire; his feast day, according to the earliest calendars, was 1 February
CUNEDDA WLEDIG (fl. 450?), British prince According to the ' Saxon Genealogies ' found in some manuscripts of ' Nennius ' and held by a number of scholars to be of the 7th century, ' Cunedag,' ancestor of Maelgwn Gwynedd, came with his eight sons from the north, i.e. Manaw Gododdin, 146 years before Maelgwn reigned, and drove the Scots (i.e. the Irish) with very great slaughter from Gwynedd, so that they never returned. Tenth century
CYNAN ap HYWEL (d. 1242?), prince was the son of Hywel Sais (died 1204), who was established by his father, the Lord Rhys (1132 - 1197), at St Clears, and who usually acted with Maelgwn ap Rhys in the family quarrels. Cynan is first heard of in Maelgwn's train, when, in 1210, his cousins, Rhys and Owain, captured him in their attack upon their uncle's camp at Cilcennin. His next appearance is in 1223, when, still in opposition to
RHUN ap MAELGWN GWYNEDD (fl. 550), ruler of north-west Wales Rhun, the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd, succeeded his father as ruler of north-west Wales. If we can trust the story in the Venedotian version of the Welsh Laws, only one historical episode is connected with him. When Clydno Eiddin and Rhydderch Hael returned to the north after despoiling Arfon in revenge for the death of Elidyr, Rhun is said to have retaliated by leading an army as far as the river
CADFAN, prince He was the son of Iago ap Beli (died 613), of the line of Maelgwn Gwynedd. Beyond the fact that he ruled over Gwynedd, nothing is known of his history. His tombstone, of the early 7th century, survives in the church of Llangadwaladr, Anglesey; it bears the inscription, 'Catamanus rex sapientisimus opinatisimus (“most renowned”) omnium regum.' Legend gives him a place in the lives of S. Winifred
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1236), prince of Deheubarth joint heir with Rhys Ieuanc of Gruffydd, eldest son of the 'lord' Rhys. His mother was Matilda, daughter of William de Breos. Though at times temporarily in opposition to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, he and his brother found in the prince of Gwynedd a powerful patron and defender against their uncles - Rhys Gryg and Maelgwn. Originally endowed with land in Cantref Bychan, the re-division of the 'lord
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (d. 1201), prince of Deheubarth - Maelgwn, his brother, and Gwenwynwyn of Powys, so that to the end his hold on his inheritance was uncertain. His career is in a sense the prelude to those mutually destructive family feuds which brought about the final collapse of the house of Dinefwr. In 1189 he married Matilda, daughter of William de Braose, who, with two young sons, Rhys Ieuanc and Owen, survived his death on 25 July 1201. Both he
CURIG (fl. 550?), saint The patron of Llangurig, a very large parish in the south of Arwystli; possibly, also, of Eglwys-Fair-a-Churig in Carmarthenshire and Capel Curig in Caernarfonshire. He was known as Curig Lwyd (the Blessed) and Curig Farchog (the Knight); in the late ' Buchedd Curic ' he is brought into association with Maelgwn Gwynedd. In the time of Giraldus Cambrensis, his pastoral staff, richly decorated with

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