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teulu MANSEL Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, . Following him came RICHARD (ROBERT ?) MANSEL, RICHARD MANSEL, Sir HUGH MANSEL (who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Penrice of Penrice castle in Gower), and PHILIP MANSEL, slain in the Wars of the Roses and attainted. Philip Mansel's wife was Mary, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Newton; their son JENKIN MANSEL of Oxwich, ' The Valiant,' had the attainder reversed in 1485. It was Sir
MAREDUDD ab OWAIN ab EDWIN (bu farw 1072), king of Deheubarth He stood five generations from Hywel Dda and was second cousin in the senior line to Rhys ap Tewdwr. When Gruffudd ap Llywelyn fell in 1063, the old dynasty was restored under his leadership. His reign coincides with the first impact of the Norman conquest on South Wales. After a brief and unequal struggle, he acquiesced in the conquest of the border lands of Gwent and was rewarded by grants of
MAREDUDD ab OWAIN ap HYWEL DDA (bu farw 999), king of Deheubarth He succeeded his aged father as sole ruler of Deheubarth in 986, and in the same year repeated the achievement of his grandfather by reuniting Gwynedd and Deheubarth for the period of his reign. In spite of domestic disharmony, he impressed contemporaries by his bold and aggressive leadership against Saxon and Dane. His greatest claim to fame rests, perhaps, on his relationship to Gruffudd ap
MAREDUDD ap CYNAN ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (bu farw 1212), lord of Eifionydd, part of Ardudwy, and Merioneth and co-founder of the Cistercian house of Cymmer From 1173-94 he was lord of Eifionydd and part of Ardudwy, a fact noted by Gerald the Welshman when he passed through the district in 1188. He received Merioneth also from his brother Gruffydd (probably in 1194) when the latter shared the spoils of victory in Gwynedd with his cousin Llywelyn ap Iorwerth whose career in its initial stages owed much to the support of the sons of Cynan. When
MAREDUDD ap GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (1130 - 1155), prince of Deheubarth Eldest son of Gruffydd ap Rhys by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan. Six years old when his father died in 1137, he came into prominence at 16 assisting an older half-brother, Cadell, in freeing southern Ceredigion of the Normans, and in defending the recently captured fortress of Carmarthen. In 1151 he took a leading part in driving the men of Gwynedd back beyond the Dovey, and in the
MAREDUDD ap IEUAN ap ROBERT ap MAREDUDD Gwydir (fl. end of 15th century) - gweler WYNN
MAREDUDD ap MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - gweler MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
MAREDUDD ap RHOSER (fl. c. 1530), poet who may have been a native of South Wales. No proof is available for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg did, with Meisgyn (Miskin) in Glamorgan. Examples of his work exist in MSS., including a love poem, an awdl in praise of Ewyas, an elegy to Sir Charles Herbert, another to reconcile William Herbert of Colebrook with William Siôn ap Rhoser of Wern-ddu, and poems in praise of William Evans
MAREDUDD ap RHYS - gweler MEREDYDD ap RHYS
MAREDUDD ap RHYS GRYG (bu farw 1271), prince of Deheubarth sanctuary in Gwynedd, he accompanied Llywelyn ap Gruffydd on his victorious expeditions of 1256, his reward being lands round Llanbadarn and Cantref Buellt. He took a leading part in the Welsh victory of Cymerau (1257), but Rhys Fychan having come over to the Welsh side in the course of the battle, Maredudd's sympathies veered in the opposite direction as early as October 1257. Though he participated in
MARGED vch IFAN (MARGED vch IFAN (Margaret Evans; 1696 - 1801?), 'character' carpenter and built her own boats; she was a smith, and shod her own horses; and she was a shoemaker. At 70, she could throw any other wrestler. Pennant ends with: 'finally, she gave her hand to the most effeminate of her admirers.' W. J. Gruffydd (Hen Atgofion, 88), on traditional evidence in his family, states that the bridegroom was one Richard Morris, and that Margaret had given him two fearful
teulu MARSHAL (earls of Pembroke), him position and lands in England, Ireland, and Normandy as well as in Pembroke and Gwent. Henceforward, he, and his sons after him, played an important role in the political and military history of Wales and the Marches. During the campaign of Rhys ap Gruffydd in 1192 against the Normans of South Wales he was one of the leaders of the Norman expedition which raised the siege of Swansea castle and

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