Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHYS GRYG (d. 1234), prince and both names are given him in the panegyric addressed to him by ' Prydydd y Moch ' (Llywarch ap Llywelyn), and printed in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, i, 292-4. He was the fourth son of the ' lord ' Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197), by Gwenllian, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys. He was an unreliable man, who rebelled against his father, played off one of his brothers against another
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1356), nobleman was restored in possession of his lands, but again in 1330 he was obliged to seek asylum overseas because of his part in a premature attempt to unseat the regents. Later in the same year, when the personal power of Edward III was at last established, Rhys was recalled, was eventually restored to many important offices, and henceforth until his death played a leading role among the Welshmen of his
RHYS GOGH ap RHICCERT The only reliable information about him which we have is contained in pedigrees (e.g. Peniarth MS 178) from which we learn that he was a grandson of Einion ap Collwyn who lived in Glamorgan at the time of the Norman Conquest, and that he was an ancestor of Rhys Brydydd of Llanharan and other well-known poets of the same line, such as Lewys Morgannwg. Twenty poems are attributed to him in Iolo MSS
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (Yr Arglwydd Rhys, The lord Rhys), (1132 - 1197), lord of Deheubarth Younger son of Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Tewdwr by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan. He was only 4 years old when his father died and leadership of the revolt against Norman rule in South Wales passed to his half-brothers - Anarawd and Cadell. As a youth of 13 he appears with his elder brother, Maredudd, fighting under Cadell's direction in 1146. The next ten years saw the old kingdom of
RHYS AP TEWDWR (d. 1093), king of Deheubarth (1078-1093) dynastic rivals in pursuit of his own claims. Brut y Tywysogyon dates the beginning of his rule circa 1078 without stating the bounds of his domain. Rhys won a momentous victory in 1081 at the battle of Mynydd Carn where he allied with the Gwynedd lord Gruffudd ap Cynan who had recruited a mercenary force from Ireland. The laconic notice in the earliest (circa 1100) text of the Annales Cambriae states
THOMAS, RHYS (1720? - 1790), printer Printer at Carmarthen, Llandovery, and Cowbridge. Rhys Thomas is included in this work as being one of the best Welsh printers of the 18th century, and because of the connection of his press (at Cowbridge) with the publication of the English-Welsh dictionary of John Walters. He was established at Carmarthen in 1760; two small books of hymns by Morgan Rhys (Cascljad o Hymnau) and Dafydd William
BWTTING, RHYS (fl. 15th century), harpist
EVANS, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician Born 24 June 1835 in a farmhouse at Cross Inn (now called Ammanford), Carmarthenshire. He was a tailor by trade. He received his first music lessons from one William Penry. When seventeen he went to Swansea where he joined a music class. He moved to Cwmavon and afterwards to Cardiff; at the latter place he became a member of choirs conducted by Rhys Lewis and a Mr. Righton, which performed works
RHYS BRYCHAN (fl. c. 1500), poet
RHYS-WILLIAMS, Sir RHYS (1865 - 1955), first Baronet created 1918, and a judge effects of unemployment. He married 24 February 1921, and had two sons and two daughters, but the eldest son was killed in action in World War II and he himself died 29 January 1955. He appended Rhys to his surname in 1938. His wife was JULIET EVANGELINE RHYS-WILLIAMS (1898 - 1964), author Literature and Writing Born in Eastbourne 17 December 1898, daughter of Clayton Glyn and his wife the novelist
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD GAPLAN (fl. c. 1400?), poet Nothing is known about him, but at least two examples of his poetry, one being a cywydd in the form of a religious confession, and the other an elegy to Sir Rhys Ifanc ap Syr Rhys Hen, great-grandfather, on the maternal side, of Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor.
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

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