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Rhys had collected 86 of the 300 horses, but Henry agreed to take only 36 of them and remitted the remainder of the tribute until after his return from Ireland.
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In his later years Rhys had trouble keeping control of his sons, particularly Maelgwn and Gruffydd, who maintained a feud with each other.
His grandfather, Rhys ap Tewdwr, had been king of all Deheubarth until his death in 1093.
Rhys had other reasons for rebellion, for he had returned to Deheubarth from England to find that the neighbouring Norman lords were threatening Cantref Mawr.
In 1167 the King of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada, who had been driven out of his kingdom, had asked Rhys to release Robert Fitz-Stephen from captivity to take part in an expedition to Ireland.
Rhys was to pay a tribute of 300 horses and 4, 000 head of cattle, but was confirmed in possession of all the lands he had taken from Norman lords, including the Clares.
In 1177 Rhys, Dafydd ab Owain, who had emerged as the main power in Gwynedd, and Cadwallon ap Madog from Rhwng Gwy a Hafren swore fealty and liege homage to Henry at a council held at Oxford.
In his later years Rhys had trouble keeping control of his sons, particularly Maelgwn and Gruffydd.
William FitzMartin was married to Rhys's daughter Angharad, and, according to Giraldus, Rhys " had solemnly sworn, by the most precious relics, that his indemnity and security should be faithfully maintained ".
Rhys had also annexed the Norman lordships of Cydweli and Carnwyllion in 1190.
Rhys had nominated his eldest legitimate son, Gruffydd ap Rhys, as his successor, and soon after his father's death Gruffydd met the Justiciar, Archbishop Hubert Walter, on the border and was confirmed as heir.
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 had at least nine sons and eight daughters.
In 1171 Rhys met King Henry II and came to an agreement with him whereby Rhys had to pay a tribute but was confirmed in all his conquests and was later named Justiciar of South Wales.
Since the death of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, Rhys ap Gruffydd had made the southern kingdom of Deheubarth the strongest of the Welsh kingdoms, and had established himself as the leader of Pura Wallia.
The original character is often said to have been based on one Thomas Jones ( c. 1530-1609 ) who, according to the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, was pardoned for unspecified offences in 1559, wrote poetry, was a steward who " often had recourse to the law ", and married the widow of Thomas Rhys Williams of Ystrad-ffin.
Several kings, including Hywel ap Rhys of Glywysing and Hyfaidd of Dyfed ( where Asser's monastery was ), had submitted to Alfred's overlordship in 885.
Restoring Anglo-Norman supremacy in Wales proved harder, and Henry had to fight two campaigns in north and south Wales in 1157 and 1158 before the Welsh princes Owain Gwynedd and Rhys ap Gruffydd submitted to his rule, agreeing to the pre-civil war division of lands.
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.
Rhys and horses
Rhys died excommunicate, having quarreled with the Bishop of St. David's, Peter de Leia, over the theft of some of the bishop's horses some years previously.
Rhys and Henry
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 ).
Henry invaded Deheubarth in 1163, stripped Rhys of all his lands and took him prisoner.
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 1158 King Henry stripped Rhys of all his territories apart from Cantref Mawr.
King Henry responded by preparing another invasion, and Rhys submitted without resistance.
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.
Warren suggests that when Rhys and Owain were obliged to do homage to Henry in 1163 they were forced to accept a status of dependent vassalage instead of their previous client status, and that this led to the revolt.
Henry now wished to make peace with Rhys, who came to Newnham to meet him.
Henry and Rhys met once more at Laugharne as Henry returned from Ireland in 1172, and shortly afterwards Henry appointed Rhys " justice on his behalf in all Deheubarth ".
The agreement between Henry and Rhys was to last until Henry's death in 1189.
King Henry held a council at Gloucester in 1175 which was attended by a large gathering of Welsh princes, led by Rhys.
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.
* 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 ).
When Henry Tudor landed in Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1485 to make a bid for the throne, his descent from Rhys was one of the factors which enabled him to attract Welsh support ( Henry flew a ( Welsh ) dragon banner at the battle of Bosworth Field ).
Rhys and agreed
It was agreed that Dafydd would marry Emma of Anjou, who was Henry's illegitimate half sister, and receive the manor of Ellesmere as dowry, but unlike his southern counterpart, Rhys ap Gruffudd, he received no ' official ' recognition of his position in the north.
Rhys and take
Players take control of Rhys, Crown Prince of the Orakian kingdom of Landen, on the day of his wedding to Maia, a mysterious amnesiac who washed up on Landen's shore two months earlier.
After the Nazis take over at Lecter Castle, six Lithuanian militiamen ( played by Rhys Ifans, Richard Brake, Ivan Marevich, Kevin McKidd, Stephen Martin Walters, and Goran Kostic ), who want to join the Waffen-SS, are told to prove their worth.
Rhys and only
According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.
When Rhys was born in 1132, his father held only the commote of Caeo in Cantref Mawr.
Of the first three, only Cadell reigned for more than a few years, but the youngest of the four, Rhys ap Gruffydd ( The Lord Rhys ), ruled from 1155 to 1197, and after Owain Gwynedd's death in 1170 made Deheubarth the most powerful of the Welsh kingdoms.
* Gruffydd ap Rhys 1135-1137 ( part only, the remainder under Norman occupation )
* Rhys Mechyll ( 1234-1244 ) ( Cantref Mawr only )
* 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 Lewis, music critic for the Herald, wrote that he was " stupefied " by the government's choice, which he said was not only unoriginal, but also so associated with supranational brotherhood that it risked making internationally isolated Rhodesia the subject of ridicule.
England's king, who only the prior year had pardoned Rhys ap Gruffydd for his 1162 revolt, assembled a vast host against the allied Welsh, with troops drawn from all over the Angevin empire assembling in Shrewsbury, and with the Norse of Dublin paid to harass the Welsh coast.
Coming off 3 early season losses, they proceeded to lose only 3 other games for the rest of the competition with the local hero, Rhys Wesser scoring a new club record 25 tries.
Their only son, Arthur Rhys Davids, was a Royal Flying Corps 25-victory fighter ace who was killed in World War I.
Nest ferch Rhys ( b. c. 1085-d. before 1136 ) was the only legitimate daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, last King of Deheubarth, by his wife, Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn of Powys.
Rhys was content with the arrangement as it meant that he only had to deal with the jealousy of his fellow Welsh princes.
Cathan falls into a deep depression over his failure to save the hostages, and his recovery is only accomplished by the joint efforts of Camber, Joram, and Rhys.
In Catalyst, set fifteen years before Camber of Culdi, Camber appears only briefly at the very end of the story to congratulate a young Rhys on his newly discovered Healing talents.
He starred as the lead in Above Their Station, a sitcom for the BBC written by Rhys Thomas about Community Support Officers ; it was made as a pilot but never commissioned, only being shown as a one-off special.
However when Llywelyn redistributed the lands formerly under the rule of the Lord Rhys in 1216, Maelgwn was still only allowed the southern part of Ceredigion.
Purported eyewitness accounts of alleged shootings persisted and were relayed by word of mouth, though there are no records of any shots being fired by troops, and the only recorded death was that of Samuel Rhys.
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