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MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet His name is certainly that which is found in the books of pedigrees of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt and Edward ap Roger of Ruabon - Meredudd ap Rhys married Angharad, daughter of Madog ap Robert of Cristionydd in the parish of Ruabon. His pedigree is traced back to Rhys Sais and Tudur Trefor, who were the ancestors of many of the gentle families in the Maelors and the Marches : Meredudd ap Rhys ap
MERRICK, RHYS - gweler MEURUG, RHYS
MERRICK, RICE (bu farw 1586-7), landed gentleman, genealogist, and historian
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel Gilbert de Clare. He has also been described in one contemporary chronicle as Rhys ap Morgan, which suggests some confusion with Rhys, the younger son of Morgan Fychan ap Morgan Gam. Morgan submitted to the king in July 1295, and obtained the royal clemency. His daughter, Angharad, was an ancestress of the Morgan family of Tredegar family. See Morgan ap Hywel for Maredudd.
MORGAN, JOHN (bu farw 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop employment as chaplain or clerk perhaps both' (A. F. Pollard, Bull. Inst. Hist. Research, xv, 156-8). Alternatively, if an old but not altogether reliable biography of Sir Rhys ap Thomas may be believed, he must have been active in Wales before 1485. This work (Camb. Reg. i, 49-144) seems to suggest that he was responsible, with his brother, for winning over Rhys ap Thomas to Henry's cause (ibid., 84-5, 88
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (bu farw c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Caradog and Gwladus, daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Tewdwr. Always an unwilling vassal of the Norman lords of Glamorgan, he was closely identified with the policy of his cousin, the 'lord' Rhys, and was probably the leader of the Glamorgan rising of 1183 (?). He was twice married: (1) to Gwenllian, daughter of Ifor Bach; (2) to Gwerful, daughter of Idnerth ap Cadwgan. He had at least four
MORGAN ap HYWEL (fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon killed by the earl of Gloucester's men, and Iorwerth, with his surviving son HYWEL, blazed out against the king and the Normans. Taking advantage of the great 'rebellion' of 1173, they seized Caerleon and other castles in Gwent; and though they had lost these castles by 1175, their friendship with the 'lord' Rhys availed to induce the king to return Caerleon to them; in 1184-5 Hywel was one of the six
MORGAN FYCHAN (bu farw 1288), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan . Sometime after 1350, Avan passed into the hands of the chief-lord, probably as a result of an exchange of lands effected by Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas, and wife of William Blount. The younger son of Morgan Fychan, Rhys, who succeeded to his father's lands in Baglan, was, however, the ancestor of several well-known Glamorganshire families including the Mackworth family and the Williams family of
MORGAN HEN ab OWAIN (bu farw 975), king of Morgannwg grandson of Hywel ap Rhys, founder of a new dynasty in western Glamorgan at the close of the 9th century. Morgan, who succeeded his father, Owain, about 930, was closely associated with the policy of friendship with the West-Saxon monarchy pursued by Hywel Dda, and continued on good terms with the English for at least a few years after the latter's death. In his day Morgannwg once more embraced
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer Born at Blaendewi, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire, 23 September 1884, the second child and eldest son of Rhys Morgan, minister of Bethesda church (CM) in the village, and Mary his wife (née Jenkins). On the last day of August 1887 he entered the local board school, six days after his sister who was fourteen months his senior; he remained there until 14 May 1897. Tregaron county school was opened
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist staff of the Cambrian News in Aberystwyth. In time he became the Welsh editor of that paper and the sub-editor of Baner ac Amserau Cymru under Prosser Rhys. He held these positions for over fifty years, until his retirement in 1964. He contributed hundreds of well-written articles and obituaries to these papers and also to journals like Y Goleuad, Y Drysorfa and Heddiw. Dewi was self-educated. He
MORGAN, JOHN JENKYN (Glanberach; 1875 - 1961), local historian and essayist relating to the Amman valley and the surrounding area and he was active in every cultural movement in the district. He was secretary of the children's eisteddfod during the ministry of Rhys J. Huws in Bryn Seion chapel, Glanaman, a church in whose foundation he played a prominent part; he was librarian and secretary of the miners' reading-room in Glanaman. He published Cofiant John Foulkes Williams (1906

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