Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWGON ap MEURIG (d. 871), king of Ceredigion, and the last of the line of Ceredig According to the Chronicle of the Princes he was drowned in the year 871. His sister, Angharad, married Rhodri Mawr. On the death of Gwgon this gave Rhodri a sufficient pretext for intervening in the affairs of the state of Seisyllwg, formed rather more than a century earlier by the union of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi.
MORGAN, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician Rhodri Morgan was born on 29 September 1939 in Cardiff, the second son of Thomas John ('T.J.') Morgan, a university lecturer, and his wife Huana (née Rees, 1906-2005), a teacher. His older brother Prys was born in 1937. The family had a strong academic and political heritage. Huana's father, John Rees, was a parish councillor in Swansea, while her grandfather, Thomas, had been a leading figure in
MERFYN FRYCH (d. 844), king of Gwynedd son of Gwriad, probably a Manx chieftain and a reputed descendant of Llywarch Hen, by Ethyllt, a princess of Gwynedd. On the death, in 825, of Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, his mother's uncle, he became king in Anglesey, and later, on the death of Hywel ap Caradog, appears to have acquired the kingship of the adjacent mainland cantrefs. Thus were united the inheritances of the last direct descendants
RHODRI ap GRUFFYDD (d. c. 1315), prince of Gwynedd ; but after some years in prison he agreed, in 1272, to quitclaim his rights in Gwynedd in return for a grant from Llywelyn of 1,000 marks. This agreement was not immediately implemented, and Rhodri escaped to England. On two subsequent occasions Edward I intervened to enforce the contract; only 50 marks had been paid by the end of 1278, but at least another 100 marks had been handed over at Aberconwy
THOMAS ap RHODRI (c. 1295 - 1363), nobleman Nephew of LLYWELYN AP GRUFFYDD; son of Rhodri ap Gruffydd by one Catherine. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1315. He eventually parted with most of the Cheshire estate and resided on his Tatsfield manor in Surrey. Later he acquired the manor of Bidfield in Gloucestershire and that of Dinas in Mechain Iscoed, thus establishing a new territorial stake in Wales. That he had a wider interest
CYNAN DINDAETHWY (d. 816), prince was, according to the oldest pedigree, the son of Rhodri, a grandson of Cadwaladr (died 664). Inasmuch as Rhodri (usually found with the epithet 'Molwynog') died in 754 and Cynan is first mentioned in 813, this descent is open to question. His brief appearance in history gathers round a struggle with a certain Hywel, whom Dr. David Powel treats as his brother, for the possession of Anglesey. In
MEURIG ab IDWAL FOEL (d. 986), nobleman of Gwynedd Youngest son of Idwal Foel. Since he died in the same year as his nephew, Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd, he was never apparently king himself. But the lineage of Rhodri Fawr was preserved in Gwynedd through his descendants - see Idwal ap Meurig.
ANARAWD ap RHODRI (d. 916), prince He was the eldest son of Rhodri Mawr (the Great), and, on the death of his father at the hands of the Mercians in 878, succeeded to Anglesey and the adjacent parts of Gwynedd. He was, no doubt, the victor in the battle fought in 881 on the banks of the Conway - a Mercian overthrow which the Welsh regarded as 'God's vengeance for Rhodri.' At first, he sought security from further attack by an
HYWEL ap RHODRI MOLWYNOG (d. 825), king of Gwynedd A great-grandson of Cadwaladr (died 664), and the last king in Anglesey of the line of Cunedda. The blood of Cunedda was transmitted, on Hywel's death, to a new royal house through his niece, Ethyllt (grandmother of Rhodri the Great), daughter of his brother, Cynan (died 816), with whom he had for long contested Anglesey.
OWAIN ap THOMAS ap RHODRI (d. 1378), soldier of fortune and pretender to the principality of Wales Son of Thomas ap Rhodri ap Gruffydd by one Cecilia - he was therefore a great-great-grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and a great-nephew of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Born c. 1330, probably on Thomas's estate of Tatsfield in Surrey, he appears to have entered the service of Philip VI of France while still quite young, and except for a brief interval of less than twelve months, spent the remainder of
IDWAL FOEL (d. 942), king of Gwynedd son of Anarawd ap Rhodri Mawr. He became ruler of Gwynedd in 916, and after some resistance accepted the overlordship of the West-Saxon monarchy. After his death during an unsuccessful revolt against the English, in 942, his sons were expelled, and authority passed to his cousin, Hywel Dda. Though two of these sons, Iago and Ieuaf were in time restored, his blood was transmitted to the principal
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd that year with a raid on Tegeingl, in which he carried off much booty. The death of his father in November 1170 opened up a new prospect; he and his brother Rhodri attacked and slew their half-brother, Hywel ab Owain, in a battle near Pentraeth in Anglesey. In 1173 he made an onset upon another half-brother, Maelgwn ab Owain, and drove him from Anglesey, to find a refuge in Ireland. 1174 was the year

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