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CADWGAN (bu farw 1111), prince nephew, Madog ap Rhiryd; the king restored him to southern Powys. But in the same year he also fell a victim to the same unnatural assailant; while planning to build a castle at Trallwng Llywelyn (Welshpool) he was treacherously attacked and, with little resistance, slain. Cadwgan is described by the ' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ' in 1097 as the 'worthiest' of the Welsh leaders in that year, and his record
CADWGAN (bu farw 1241), bishop of Bangor He succeeded after the death of Robert in 1212. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth was at this time dominant in North Wales, and it was, no doubt, through his influence that Cadwgan obtained the see. King John, moreover, who, in the early months of 1215, was angling for the support of the Welsh against the barons, put no obstacles in his way. On 13 March the chapter was allowed to elect the abbot of Whitland
CARADOG ap GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH (bu farw 1081) The grandson of Rhydderch ap Iestyn, powerful in South Wales until his death in 1033, and the son of Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, the rival of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, by whom he was slain in 1055. The home of the family would seem to have been Gwynllwg and Upper Gwent. It is in this quarter of Wales that Caradog makes his first appearance in 1065, when he swooped upon earl Harold's new hunting lodge at
CATRIN ferch GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN [ap LLYWELYN?] FYCHAN (fl. 16th century), poet Daughter, it appears, of the poet Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan of Llannerch in the Vale of Clwyd. One poem only of her work remains, a religious poem in NLW MS 722B (155). It appears that the poem in Cardiff MS. 19 (742), Cwrtmawr MS 14C (72), and NLW MS 6681B (404) was composed by her sister, Alice.
teulu CLARE somewhat negligent of a nearer menace to their fortunes in Wales - the rise of the principality of Gwynedd; they had regarded the two Llywelyn's (i.e. Llywelyn the Great and Llywelyn the Last) merely as convenient allies against the Crown. Gilbert IV in his turn sided with Montfort, but after Lewes (1264) they quarrelled, and Montfort encouraged Llywelyn II to ravage Gilbert's lands in Wales; Gilbert
CYNAN ap HYWEL (bu farw 1242?), prince Llywelyn of North Wales, he is the ally of William Marshall in the earl's great invasion of the South, and in that capacity harries Is Aeron, which is placed in his keeping. His permanent reward was the bestowal upon him of Emlyn and Ystlwyf (between the Cynin and the Cowin) in return for his support. On 18 November it was announced by the king that Cynan had done homage for his rightful patrimony and
CYNAN ap IAGO (bu farw 1060?), exiled prince was the son of Iago ab Idwal, descended from Rhodri Mawr, and ruler of Gwynedd from 1033 to 1039. Upon the murder of Iago in the latter year by his own men and the accession to power of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, of a different house, Cynan found refuge among the Danes of Dublin. Here he married Ragnhildr, granddaughter of Sitric of the Silken Beard (died 1042), and thus became allied to the royal
CYNDDELW BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. 1155-1200), leading 12th century Welsh court poet connection with Madog's court are 'In praise of Eve,' who was the prince's daughter, and the fine series of eighteen englynion in which he laments the death of Madog and his son Llywelyn, with whom was buried the unity of Powys. Cynddelw then turned to sing the praises of Owain Gwynedd, and his poetic gifts are seen at their height in the 'Elegy to Owain,' 1170. Henceforward, and until the end of the
DAFYDD ab IFAN ab EINION (fl. 1440-1468), soldier and commander of Harlech Castle during the Wars of the Roses His fame rests on his defence of Harlech castle for the Lancastrians (1460-8) during the Wars of the Roses. His father, Ieuan ab Einion of Cryniarth and Hendwr in Edeirnion, Meironnydd, was a descendant of Llywelyn ap Cynwrig of Cors-y-Gedol; his mother, Angharad, was daughter and heiress of Dafydd ap Giwn Llwyd of Hendwr; his wife was Margaret, daughter of John Puleston of Emral, Flintshire
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (bu farw 1203), king of Gwynedd and Hales in Shropshire. He seems now to have settled in the Middle Country, with a fine castle at Rhuddlan, admired by Giraldus Cambrensis, who spent a night there, with archbishop Baldwin's company, in the spring of 1188. In 1194 fortune struck him a second blow. After he had been harassed for some time by his energetic young nephew, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, that rising star entered into an alliance
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (bu farw 1346), bishop Bishop of St Asaph, succeeded on the death of Llywelyn ap Llywelyn in 1314. According to Iolo Goch (ed. C. Ashton, 273), he was 'of the tribe of Uchtryd ' and, in accordance with this, the pedigrees make him a brother of Ithel Anwyl, and a nephew of Ithel Fychan, both important figures in Flintshire in the early part of the century (Powys Fadog, iii, 106, iv, 154). He may be the ' David ap
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1283), prince of Gwynedd third son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and Senena, and younger brother of Owain and Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. The date of his birth is uncertain. Since he was apparently too young to participate with Owain and Llywelyn in the terms of the peace of Woodstock (1247), it can perhaps be assumed that he came of age (at 14 in Welsh law) between 1247 and 1252, for in the latter year he is found - though still to

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