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Personal data Tewdwr ap Cadell > 

• He was born about 997 in Castell Dinefwr, Dinefwr, Llandyfeisant, Deheubarth, Sir Gaerfyrddin, De Cymru.
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  http://www.deloriahurst.com/deloriahurst%20page/1616.html
  
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  TEWDR Mawr, son of CADELL ap Edwin of Gwynedd & his wife --- . Gerald of Wales´s Descriptio Kambriæ names "Rothericus magnus, qui Britannice Rotheri Maur dicebatur...tres filios...Mervinum, Anaraut et Cadelh", adding that Cadell, ruler of South Wales, acquired the whole of Wales after the death of his brothers, that "successores sui similiter usque ad Theodorum" [Tewdr], but that "descendientes...a Theodoro...Resus filius Theodori, Griphinus filius Resi, et Resus filius Griphini qui hodie praest" ruled in South Wales[446].
  
  m ---. The name of Tewdr´s wife is not known.
  
  Tewdr & his wife had two childen:
  
  1. RHYDDERCH ap Tewdr . m HUNYDD [Gwladus] of Gwynedd, daughter of BLEDDYN ap Cynfyn King of Gwynedd and Powys & his first wife ---. The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales names "the wife of Rhydderch son of Tewdwr…Hunydd daughter of Bleddyn son of Cynvyn" and her sons "Maredudd and Owain" in 1113[447]. Rhydderch & his wife had two children:
  
  a) MAREDUDD (-after 1113). The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales names "the wife of Rhydderch son of Tewdwr…Hunydd daughter of Bleddyn son of Cynvyn" and her sons "Maredudd and Owain" in 1113[448]. m ---. The name of Maredudd´s wife is not known. Maredudd & his wife had one child:
  
  i) HYWEL (-killed 1140). [The Gwentian Chronicle records that "Hywel son of Maredudd son of Rhydderch, lord of the Little Cantrew was killed by the Frenchmen" in 1140[449].]
  
  b) OWAIN (-after 1113). The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales names "the wife of Rhydderch son of Tewdwr…Hunydd daughter of Bleddyn son of Cynvyn" and her sons "Maredudd and Owain" in 1113[450].
  
  2. RHYS ap Tewdr (-killed in battle near Brecknock Castle [Mar/Apr] 1093). The Annales Cambriæ record that "filius Teudur Resus" started to rule in 1077[451]. [The Gwentian Chronicle records that "Rhys son of Tewdwr came from Llydaw and put in a claim to the principality of South Wales as lawful heir" in 1077[452].] He succeeded in 1078 as King of Deheubarth. The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales records that "Rhys son of Tewdwr began to reign" in 1077[453]. Gerald of Wales´s Descriptio Kambriæ names "descendientes...a Theodoro...Resus filius Theodori, Griphinus filius Resi, et Resus filius Griphini qui hodie praest" as successive rulers in South Wales[454]. The Annales Cambriæ record that "Resus filius Teudur" was expelled from his kingdom by "filiis Bledint, scilicet Madauc, Cadugan et Ririt" in 1087[455]. The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales records that "Rhys son of Tewdwr was expelled from his territory by the sons of Bleddyn, sons of Cynvyn, to wit Madog, and Cadwgan, and Rhirid, and he himself retreated into Ireland, and immediately afterwards he collected a fleet of the Gwyddelians and returned again, and then the battle of Llych Crei took place, and the sons of Bleddyn were slain" in 1087, adding that "Rhys son of Tewdwr gave an immense sum of money to the mariners, the Scots and Gwyddelians who had come to assist him"[456]. Florence of Worcester records that "Res Walanorum rex" was killed in battle during Easter week "iuxta castellum Brecheniean" in [1093], after which "kings ceased to reign in Wales"[457]. The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales records that "Rhys son of Tewdwr king of South Wales was killed by the French, who inhabited Brecheiniog, and then fell the kingdom to the Britons" in 1091[458]. m GWLADUS, daughter of RHIWALLON ap Cynfyn & his wife ---. The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales records in 1106 that "Cadwgan son of Bleddyn and Gwladus daughter of Rhiwallon, the mother of Nest were cousins, as Bleddyn and Rhiwallon, sons of Cynvyn, were brothers"[459]. Rhys & his wife had four children:
  
  a) GORONW (-beheaded 1093). [The Gwentian Chronicle records that "Goronwy son of Rhys" was beheaded after the death of his father, dated to 1091 in the text, but dateable to 1093 according to the other sources quoted above[460].]
  
  b) NEST . The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales names, in 1106, "Nest daughter of Rhys son of Tewdwr and wife of Gerald the steward" and "Gwladus daughter of Rhiwallon, the mother of Nest", when recording that "Owain [son of Cadwgan son of Bleddyn]…accompanied by a small retinue [visited] her as his kinswoman" in the castle in which his father organised a feast and later reentered the castle and abducted her "with her two sons and daughter and also another son that he [=her husband] had by a concubine"[461]. Giraldus Cambrensis names "Henricus…regi Henrici primi filius…ex nobili Nesta, Resi filii Theodori filia" in South Wales[462]. She was abducted by Owain son of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn from castle Ceanrth Bychan in 1109. m (1100) GERALD FitzWalter of Windsor, son of WALTER FitzOther of Windsor & his wife Beatrice --- (-before 1136). Custodian of Pembroke Castle. Mistress of HENRY I King of England, son of WILLIAM I "the Conqueror" King of England & his wife Mathilde de Flandre (Selby, Yorkshire Sep 1068-Château de Lyon-la-Forêt, near Rouen 1 Dec 1135, bur Reading Abbey, Berkshire). Mistress of STEPHEN Constable of Cardiff Castle, by whom she had one illegitimate child:
  
  i) ROBERT FitzStephen . The Expugnatio Hibernica records that "Robertus filius Stephani" was freed from prison in Wales, naming "matre…Nesta, Resi magni filia"[463]. The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales names "Robert son of Stephen by Nest daughter of Rhys son of Tewdwr" when recording that "the lord Rhys" had removed him from "the castle of Aberteivi" which he had destroyed[464]. m ---. Robert & his wife had two children:
  
  (a) RALPH . The Expugnatio Hibernica names "Radulfus…Stephanidæ filius"[465].
  
  (b) MEREDITH (-[1178/79]). The Expugnatio Hibernica records the death of "Mereducius Stephanidæ filius, adolescens indolis egregiæ" [in [1178/79]][466].
  
  c) GRUFFYDD ap Rhys ([1090]-murdered 1137). The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales records that "Gruffudd son of Rhys son of Tewdwr, king of South Wales, came from Ireland to Dyved…returned to his patrimony" in 1112 adding that he "passed about two years, sometimes with Gerald steward of Pembroke Castle, his brother-in-law who had married his sister Nest…"[467].
  
  - see below.
  
  d) HYWEL (-after 1112). The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales records that "Gruffudd son of Rhys…and Howel his brother" went to "Gruffudd son of Cynan" in 1112, adding that "this same Howel had been in the prison of Ernulf son of Roger, the lord of Castle Baldwin" and "escaped in a maimed state with broken limbs out of the prison"[468].
  
  Rhys had two illegitimate children by unknown mistresses:
  
  e) CYNAN (-drowned Lake Cremlyn 1093). [The Gwentian Chronicle records that, after the death of his father, "another, a bastard son of Rhys, called Cynan" attempted "to escape through a lake called Cremlyn where he was drowned"[469].]
  
  f) GORONW (-London 1101). [The Gwentian Chronicle records that "Goronwy son of Rhys son of Tewdrwr died in London in the king´s prison" in 1101[470].]
  
  

• He died about 1089 in Near Castell Aberhonddu, Aberhonddu, Teyrnas Powys, Dwyrain Cymru.
• A child of Cadell ap Einion > and Elinor verch Gwerystan >
• This information was last updated on April 26, 2019.

Household of Tewdwr ap Cadell >

He is married to Gwenllian verch Gwyn.

They got married before 1013 at Castell Dinefwr, Dinefwr, Llandyfeisant, Deheubarth, Sir Gaerfyrddin, De Cymru.

Child(ren):

1. Rhys ap Tewdwr >  ± 1013-1093 

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