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Maredudd and became
He was blinded by King Henry after the failure of the invasion of Wales in 1165, and became known as Maredudd Ddall ( Maredudd the Blind ).
* Another Maredudd ( died 1227 ) became Archdeacon of Cardigan.
In the tale told by Llewelyn Pritchard, Twm is the illegitimate son of Cati Jones following attentions from John Wynn of Gwydir ( John " Wynn " ap Maredudd ); the Welsh forms of the names of his parents became incorporated into his name.

Maredudd and ruler
Maredudd died in 1155 at the age of twenty-five and left Rhys as ruler of Deheubarth.
Powys also had a strong ruler at this time in Madog ap Maredudd, but when his death in 1160 was quickly followed by the death of his heir, Llywelyn ap Madog, Powys was split into two parts and never subsequently reunited.

Maredudd and Deheubarth
King Stephen had died in October 1154, bringing to an end the long dispute with the Empress Matilda which had helped Anarawd, Cadell and Maredudd to extend their rule in Deheubarth.
The rule of Deheubarth now fell to Gruffydd's sons, of whom four, Anarawd, Cadell, Maredudd and Rhys ap Gruffydd ruled in turn.
In 1091 he faced another challenge in the form of an attempt to put Gruffydd, the son of Maredudd ab Owain, on the throne of Deheubarth.
By the late 10th century, the region as a whole ( including the land around the bay as well as the Gower Peninsula ) was part of the Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth under Maredudd ap Owain.
For the next 30 years it changed hands frequently between Rhys and his uncle Maredudd who were fighting for control of the Kingdom of Deheubarth.
Bleddyn was the son of Princess Angharad ferch Maredudd ( of the Dinefwr dynasty of Deheubarth ) with her second husband Cynfyn ap Gwerstan, a Powys Lord, about whom little is now known.
He later gained control of Deheubarth, defeating Rhain, an Irish pretender who claimed to be the son of Maredudd ab Owain, at Abergwili in 1022.
He was succeeded by his brother Cadwallon ap Ieuaf, who had not been on the throne long when Gwynedd was annexed by Maredudd ap Owain of Deheubarth.
He only reigned for a year, for in 986 Maredudd ab Owain of Deheubarth invaded Gwynedd, slew Cadwallon and annexed his kingdom.

Maredudd and at
Maredudd and Rhys also destroyed the castles at Tenby and Aberafan that year.
In 1194, with the aid of his cousins Gruffudd ap Cynan and Maredudd ap Cynan, he defeated Dafydd at the battle of Aberconwy at the mouth of the River Conwy.
The prince of Powys, Madog ap Maredudd, with assistance from Earl Ranulf of Chester, gave battle at Coleshill, but Owain was victorious.
Thereafter Gower remained beyond the reach of Llewelyn's successors as Prince of Wales ; but its population suffered at the hands of Rhys ap Maredudd during his revolt of 1287-8.
He conspired with his cousins Gruffudd and Maredudd and his uncle Rhodri and in the year 1194 they all united against Dafydd, defeated him at the Battle of Aberconwy and " drove him to flight and took from him all his territory except three castles ".
In the 14th century, a resident of Penmynydd, Tudur ap Goronwy, had five sons, one of whom was called Maredudd ( the father of Owen Tudor-an Anglicisation of his Welsh name Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur ) who joined Henry V's army and subsequently established himself at court.
The revolt began in south Wales, as Hywel ap Maredudd, lord of Brycheiniog ( Brecknockshire ), gathered his men and marched to the Gower, defeating the Norman and English colonists there at the Battle of Llwchwr.
The second, at the south end, was built in 1268 and survived Llywelyn's death, but was sacked by Cynan ap Maredudd during the revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294-5.
Madog was the son of Llywelyn ap Maredudd, the last vassal Lord of Meirionydd who had been deprived of his patrimony in 1256 for opposing Llywelyn ap Gruffudd the Prince of Wales at the Battle of Bryn Derwin.
Morlais castle was captured under the aegis of Morgan in the south, and Cynan ap Maredudd besieged the castle at Builth for a period of six weeks.

Maredudd and Ceredigion
Maredudd and Rhys were able to drive Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd from Ceredigion by 1153.
While Owain ap Cadwgan of Ceredigion sought refuge in Gwynedd's mountains, Maredudd ap Bleddyn of Powys made peace with the English king as the Norman army advanced.

Maredudd and which
By 1141 Cadwaladr and Madog ap Maredudd of Powys led a Welsh vanguard as an ally of the Earl of Chester in the Battle of Lincoln, and joined in the route which made Stephen of England prisoner of Empress Matilda for a year.
It seems that Iorwerth was injured badly enough to be ruled out of the succession ( he was to die in 1174 ), leaving Dafydd as the leading figure in this cabal, which included his brother Rhodri as well as his half brother Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd and the nephews of another half brother Cynan ab Owain, namely Gruffudd ap Cynan and Maredudd ap Cynan.
William probably founded Whittington Castle which was taken from his descendants by the Welsh under Madog ap Maredudd of Powys and later granted to Roger Powys by King Henry II.

Maredudd and had
That Owain Glyndŵr had another brother Gruffudd is likely ; that he possibly had a third, Maredudd, is suggested by one reference.
Owen's father Maredudd ap Tudur ( English: Meredith ) had been ( together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym ) stalwarts of Owain Glyndŵr's uprising of 1400.
Gruffydd had four sons by Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, Maredudd, Rhys, Morgan and Maelgwn.
After the death in 999 of Maredudd ab Owain who had seized Gwynedd from the line of Idwal Foel, the rule of Gwynedd returned to the original dynasty in the form of Idwal's great-grandson, Cynan ap Hywel.
Llywelyn ap Maredudd had lived out his days in exile in England dying in 1263.

Maredudd and been
Rhys ap Maredudd of Dryslwyn would have been in a similar position in Cantref Mawr, having adhered to the king during Llewellyn's rebellion, but he forfeited his lands by rebelling in 1287.

Maredudd and by
Rhys appears in the annals for the first time in 1146, fighting alongside his brothers Cadell and Maredudd in the capture by assault of Llansteffan Castle.
In 1195 two other sons, Rhys Gryg and Maredudd, seized Llanymddyfri and Dinefwr, and Rhys responded by imprisoning them.
According to the chronicle Brut y Tywysogion, Godfrey Haroldson carried off two thousand captives from Anglesey in 987, and the king of Gwynedd, Maredudd ab Owain is reported to have redeemed many of his subjects from slavery by paying the Danes a large ransom.
Rhodri died in 1195, and his lands west of the Conwy were taken over by Gruffudd and Maredudd while Llywelyn ruled the territories taken from Dafydd east of the Conwy.
In the 15th century, an upper storey was added to the keep by local lord Maredudd ap Ieuan.
In 1149 the castle was captured by Madog ap Maredudd, and remained in Welsh hands until 1157.
His descendants retained Ellesmere until apparently the late 1140s when the lordship was acquired, probably by force, by Madog ap Maredudd of Powys.
The Maelor was first divided from the rest of Wales by the construction of Offa's Dyke in the eighth century, but was reclaimed for Wales during the reign of Stephen of England ( 1135-54 ) by Madog ap Maredudd of Powys.
The earliest certain reference appears in a cywydd by the Welsh poet Maredudd ap Rhys ( fl.
Maelgwn was the son of Rhys ap Gruffydd ( The Lord Rhys ) by his wife Gwenllian ferch Madog, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd prince of Powys.
In 1193, with the help of a Manx contingent, he briefly regained Anglesey, but was ejected again the same year by Gruffydd and Maredudd.

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