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Maredudd died in 1155 at the age of twenty-five and left Rhys as ruler of Deheubarth.
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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.
* Maredudd ap Rhys ( died 1239 ) was also given as a hostage, but was less fortunate than Hywel.
* Another Maredudd ( died 1227 ) became Archdeacon of Cardigan.
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.
Madog ap Maredudd died in 1160, enabling Owain to regain territory in the east.
Maredudd ap Tudur ( died 1406 ); Maredudd married Margaret ferch Dafydd.
* Maredudd ap Madoc ap Llywelyn ( died c. 1334 )
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Maredudd became ruler of Deheubarth and continued a campaign, begun in 1150, aimed at recovering Ceredigion, which had been held by Gwynedd since 1136.
Maredudd and Rhys also destroyed the castles at Tenby and Aberafan that year.
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.
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.
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.
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 Rhys
Rhys married Gwenllian verch Madog, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, the last Prince of all Powys.
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.
Maredudd and Rhys were able to drive Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd from Ceredigion by 1153.
Rhys met the king to discuss terms and was obliged to give more hostages, including another son, Maredudd.
In 1195 two other sons, Rhys Gryg and Maredudd, seized Llanymddyfri and Dinefwr, and Rhys responded by imprisoning them.
* 1287 – June 8 – the Welsh nobleman Rhys ap Maredudd begins a revolt in Wales that lasts until January 1288.
* June 2 – Rhys ap Maredudd, Welsh nobleman and rebel leader
* June 8 – Rhys ap Maredudd revolts in Wales ; the revolt will not be suppressed until 1288.
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.
The rule of Deheubarth now fell to Gruffydd's sons, of whom four, Anarawd, Cadell, Maredudd and Rhys ap Gruffydd ruled in turn.
* Maredudd ap Rhys Gryg ( 1244-1271 ) ( Cantref Mawr only )
* Rhys ap Maredudd ( 1271-1283 ) ( Cantref Mawr only, then from 1287 in rebellion, executed 1292 )
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.
He fought against Rhys ap Maredudd during his rising from 1287 to 1291.
Probably the most famous people to be executed there were Rhys ap Maredudd, a Welsh nobleman and rebel, hanged in 1292, and Dick Turpin, who was hanged in 1739.
The earliest certain reference appears in a cywydd by the Welsh poet Maredudd ap Rhys ( fl.
* 1287 Revolt of Rhys ap Maredudd in Wales
Gruffydd had four sons by Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, Maredudd, Rhys, Morgan and Maelgwn.
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.
Maredudd and Deheubarth
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 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.
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