Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
RHODRI MAWR (d. 877), king of Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth
RHODRI MOLWYNOG (d. 754), king of Gwynedd
RICHARD ap JOHN (fl. 1578-1611) Scorlegan, Llangynhafal, gentleman, poet, patron of bards, and copyist He traced his pedigree through Edwin ap Grono to Hywel Dda and Rhodri Mawr. His father, John Wyn ap Robert ap Griffith, was a waiter in the queen's ewry, but he died of the plague before the children, Richard, John Wyn, and Catherine, had reached their majority. Lewis ab Edward and Gruffudd Hiraethog wrote elegies on his death. The children and their mother, Margaret, daughter of Griffith ab
SEISYLL ap CLYDOG (fl. 730), king of the combined realm of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi applied to the enlarged dominion created by Seisyll, the Deheubarth of the central period of the Middle Ages possessed by the descendants of Cadell ap Rhodri the Great. Dynastic continuity was maintained in this area by Rhodri's marriage to Angharad, a sister of Gwgon ap Meurig, the last king of the old line of Seisyllwg (died 871), who were both great-great-grandchildren of Seisyll.
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
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library translated 'Brut y Tywysogion' into English. He published at Oxford in 1662 a small book entitled British Antiquities Revived, containing a refutation of Sir Thomas Canon's arguments that Cadell was the eldest son of Rhodri Mawr and that, consequently, the princes of Deheubarth had superiority over those of Gwynedd, a correction of the pedigree of the earl of Carbery as given in Percy Enderbie's Cambria
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge , and a son, Rhodri. While the forces were being trained for the invasion of Europe, Watkins was posted in August 1943 as an instructor in the Rifle wing of the Advanced Handling and Fieldcraft school near Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. After the invasion of Europe in June 1944, he was posted to 103 Reinforcement Group in Normandy and on 25 July 1944 he joined 1st/5th Battalion of the Welch Regiment, a

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