Deheubarth was one of the traditional kingdoms of Wales, shown here as they were in 1093 when Rhys ap Tewdwr died.

Gruffydd ap Rhys continued his campaign against the Normans in 1137, but died later that year.

Maredudd died in 1155 at the age of twenty-five and left Rhys as ruler of Deheubarth.

Henry II died in 1189 and was succeeded by Richard I. Rhys considered that he was no longer bound by the agreement with King Henry and attacked the Norman lordships surrounding his territory.

In April 1197 Rhys died unexpectedly and was buried in St David's Cathedral.

* Gruffydd ap Rhys II ( died 1201 ) was the eldest legitimate son and was nominated by Rhys as his successor.

* Maelgwn ap Rhys ( died 1231 ), who was the eldest son but illegitimate, refused to accept Gruffydd as his father's successor.

* Rhys Gryg ( died 1233 ) married a daughter of the Earl of Clare.

* Hywel ap Rhys ( died 1231 ) spent many years as a hostage at the court of Henry II and on his return became known as Hywel Sais ( Hywel the Saxon, i. e. Englishman ).

* Maredudd ap Rhys ( died 1239 ) was also given as a hostage, but was less fortunate than Hywel.

After Rhys died in 1197, fighting between his sons led to the splitting of Deheubarth between warring factions.

** Rhys Prichard, Welsh-language poet ( died 1644 )

By 1922, when T. W. Rhys Davids died, the Pāli Text Society had issued 64 separate texts in 94 volumes exceeding 26, 000 pages, as well a range of articles by English and European scholars.

Rhys Davids died on 27th December 1922 in Chipstead, Surrey.

Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids died suddenly in Chipstead, Surrey on 26 June 1942.

* Juliet Evangeline Glyn, later Dame Juliet Rhys-Williams DBE ( 1898 – 1964 ), a governor of the BBC 1952-1956. she married 24 February 1921 the much older Liberal politician Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams Bt ( 20 October 1865 – 29 January 1955, died aged 89 ), MP for Banbury 1918-1922, and had issue, two sons and two daughters.

Rhys Isaac, Pulitze-prize-winning author, died in Blairgowrie on 6 October 2010.

Rhys died in 1197 and by 1200 William de Braose was back at Radnor Castle.

The western section, a Lady chapel, in length, has an inscription to King Rhys ap Arthfael of Morgannwg who died in the mid-9th century.

On 20 November 2007, Rhys Meyers's mother, Geraldine " Geri " Meyers-O ’ Keeffe, died at Mercy University Hospital in Cork, Ireland following a short illness.

The target was eventually reached, ten years after Rhys died.

Rhys Isaac died at his home in Blairgowrie, Victoria, Australia, on 6 October 2010, aged 72, from undisclosed causes.

Rhys Davies died in Richmond in September 1838 as a result of stab wounds received in a fight with a workman and was buried on Belle Isle in the James River.

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.

The scene itself, filmed on 14 March 2008, involves Lea Kennedy ( played by Alys Thomas ) who is working for an unnamed party group and her much older boyfriend Stephen James ( Dewi Rhys Williams ) having sexual intercourse.

Caroline and Thomas had three children, Vivien Brynhilda ( 1895 ), Nesta Enid ( 1900 ) and Arthur Rhys Davids ( 1897 ), a fighter ace pronounced as having been killed in action during an aerial battle in 1917.

* Rhys Ifans advertising the channel door-to-door, but often having a door slammed in his face.

Signed on is indie director Billy Walsh ( Rhys Coiro ), who comes into immediate conflict with E. Eventually their differences are put aside and the season ends with the crew leaving for New York to start production on Queens Boulevard, with E having become Vince ’ s official manager ( with salary ).

He is most famous for his work on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones.

This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody ( with Bob Goody ) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

* Morons from Outer Space ( 1985 )-Bernard ; also co-wrote the script with Griff Rhys Jones

Hotspur issued an amnesty in March which applied to all rebels with the exception of Owain and his cousins, Rhys ap Tudur and Gwilym ap Tudur, sons of Tudur ap Gronw ( forefather of King Henry VII of England ).

Rhys made an alliance with Owain Gwynedd and after the failure of another invasion of Wales by Henry in 1165 was able to win back most of his lands.

In 1171 Rhys made peace with King Henry and was confirmed in possession of his recent conquests as well as being named Justiciar of South Wales.

In his later years Rhys had trouble keeping control of his sons, particularly Maelgwn and Gruffydd, who maintained a feud with each other.

Henry appears to have been uncertain what to do with Rhys, but after a few weeks decided to free him and allow him to rule Cantref Mawr.

Rhys was summoned to appear before Henry at Woodstock to do homage together with Owain Gwynedd and Malcolm IV of Scotland.

Henry now wished to make peace with Rhys, who came to Newnham to meet him.

When Rhys returned to Wales after the fall of Tutbury, he left a thousand men with the king for service in Normandy.

Rhys built a number of stone castles, starting with Cardigan castle, which was the earliest recorded native-built stone castle in Wales.

Giraldus Cambrensis, who was related to Rhys, gives an account of his meetings with Rhys in 1188 when Giraldus accompanied Archbishop Baldwin around Wales to raise men for the Third Crusade.

What could have been a tense affair, since Rhys had seized lands in Ceredigion previously held by the Clare family, passed off with an exchange of courteous compliments, followed by some good-natured banter between Rhys and Gerald about their family connections.

Rhys gave Gerald and Archbishop Baldwin a great deal of assistance when they visited Wales to raise troops for the crusade in 1188, and Gerald several times refers to his " kindness " and says that Rhys accompanied them all the way from Cardigan to the northern border of Ceredigion " with a liberality peculiarly praiseworthy in so illustrious a prince ".

Another contemporary writer also wrote of Rhys if Roger Turvey is correct in stating that Walter Map's piece Of the King Appollonides deals with Rhys under a pseudonym.

Through the Tudors inter-marrying with the House of Stuart Rhys is an ancestor to the current ruling house of the United Kingdom and also an ancestor of several ruling houses in Europe.

* Places and artifacts associated with Rhys ap Gruffudd from Gathering the Jewels

In 1890, Yeats co-founded the Rhymers ' Club with Ernest Rhys, a group of London based poets who met regularly in a Fleet Street tavern to recite their verse.