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Rhodri and his brother Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, Owain's legitimate sons by his wife Cristina, defeated and killed their half brother Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd at Pentraeth that year.
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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.
The following year he expelled all his remaining family rivals and made himself master of all Gwynedd and in 1175 " seized through treachery " his brother Rhodri and imprisoned him for good measure.
His brother Rhodri had a more eventful time and fell out with the descendants of Cynan.
Together, Dafydd and Rhodri attacked and killed their brother Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd that same year.
In 1175 Rhodri escaped and attacked his brother, seizing all Gwynedd west of the River Conwy.
Sharpville is the heir presumptive to his brother, Rhodri Philipps, 4th Viscount St Davids, and currently the only person eligible to succeed to the Viscountcy of St Davids.
Supporting the veracity of the pedigree is an entry in the Annales Cambriae, which states that Gwriad, the brother of Rhodri the Great, was slain on Anglesey by the Saxons.
Rhodri acquired part of Gwynedd, but soon afterwards came under pressure from his brother Dafydd who captured and imprisoned him.
Additionally, the children of Rhodri ap Gruffudd, a brother of Llywelyn the Last, survived in exile.
Rhodri and Dafydd
Dafydd ab Owain held the area east of the River Conwy and Rhodri ab Owain held the west.
Dafydd and Rhodri were the sons of Owain by his second marriage to Cristin ferch Goronwy ab Owain.
In his account of his journey around Wales in 1188 Giraldus Cambrensis mentions that the young Llywelyn was already in arms against his uncles Dafydd and Rhodri ;
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.
Owain was married twice, first to Gwladus ferch Llywarch ap Trahaearn, by whom he had two sons, Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd and Iorwerth Drwyndwn, the father of Llywelyn the Great, then to Cristin, by whom he had three sons including Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd.
Owain then designated Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd as his successor, but after his death Hywel was first driven to seek refuge in Ireland by Cristina's sons, Dafydd and Rhodri, then killed at the battle of Pentraeth when he returned with an Irish army.
Dafydd and Rhodri split Gwynedd between them, but a generation passed before Gwynedd was restored to its former glory under Owain's grandson Llywelyn the Great.
Before the end of 1175 Rhodri had escaped from captivity and gathered sufficient support to be able to drive Dafydd from Anglesey and across the River Conwy.
Faced with this turn of events, Dafydd and Rhodri agreed to divide Gwynedd between each other.
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 ".
At his death in 1170, a bloody dispute broke out between his heir Hywel the Poet-Prince and Owain's younger sons Maelgwn, Rhodri, and led by Dafydd, all three the sons of the Princess-Dowager Cristen.
He was defeated and killed here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri.
The same year Dafydd captured and imprisoned his brothers Maelgwn ( who had returned from Ireland ) and Rhodri.
Gruffydd's wife, Senena ( possibly a daughter of Caradoc ap Thomas of Anglesey ), agreed to pay Henry 600 marks for the release of her husband and their eldest son, Owain, and to hand over her two youngest sons, Dafydd and Rhodri, to the king as hostages to ensure that she kept her part of the bargain.
After his death Gruffydd's four sons — Owain, Llywelyn, Dafydd and Rhodri — would come into their own, and after much fraternal discord, Llywelyn ended up ruling most of Wales.
The dowager princess plotted to have her eldest son Dafydd usurp the Throne of Gwynedd from Hywel, and with Gwynedd divided between Dafydd and her other sons Rhodri and Cynan.
However by 1174 Iorwerth and Cynan were both dead and Maelgwn and Rhodri were imprisoned by Dafydd, who was now master over the whole of Gwynedd.
In 1175 Rhodri escaped from captivity and was able to gain enough support to drive Dafydd out of the part of Gwynedd situated west of the River Conwy.
Dafydd and Rhodri then agreed to the partition of Gwynedd between them, with Dafydd retaining only Gwynedd east of the Conwy and the island of Anglesey.
Rhodri and ab
* Rhys's daughter Gwenllian ferch Rhys married Rhodri ab Owain, prince of the western part of Gwynedd.
* Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd, Lord of Môn ( 1175 – 1193 )
The royal house of Gwynedd may have endured in the guise of the Wynn and the Anwyl families who both claimed Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd as their ancestor.
The Anwyls are direct male line descendants of Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd and as such are members of the House of Aberffraw and represent a surviving fragment of medieval Welsh royalty.
For a time he ruled jointly with his brothers Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd.
He claimed to be directly descended from the princes of Gwynedd through Rhodri ab Owain son of Owain Gwynedd.
* Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd, Lord of Anglesey ( d. 1195 ) = Annest ferch Rhys ap Gruffudd
* Thomas ap Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd
Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd ( 1135 ?– 1195 ) was prince of part of Gwynedd, one of the kingdoms of medieval Wales.
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Rhodri and Owain
Owain Gwynedd was a member of the House of Aberffraw, a descendant of the senior branch from Rhodri Mawr.
Additionally, Owain I commissioned the Life of Gruffydd ap Cynan, the biography of his father in which Owain firmly asserted his primacy over other Welsh rulers by " absolute right through decent " from Rhodri the Great, according to Davies.
Owain I was the eldest male descendent of Rhodri the Great through paternal decent.
This family have patrilinear descent from Rhodri Mawr through Anarawd, his eldest son, and Owain Gwynedd ( king of Gwynedd c. 1137-1170 ) to the present day.
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