Maelgwn ap Rhys DINEFWR #77361

ABT 1170 - 1230
BIRTH ABT 1170
DEATH 1230

Historical Notes

Maelgwn ap Rhys was prince of part of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south west Wales.

Maelgwn was the son of Rhys ap Gruffydd (The Lord Rhys) by his wife Gwenllian ferch Madog, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd prince of Powys. He appears in the historical record for the first time helping at the siege of Tenby in 1187. In 1188 when Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury and Giraldus Cambrensis travelled through Wales raising men for the Third Crusade, Maelgwn is recorded as having taken the cross, though there is no record that he actually went on the crusade.

Parents

Father : Rhys ap Gruffydd DINEFWR #75910

Mother : Gwenllian ferch Madog MATHRAFAL #75911

Family 1

Children

  1. +Ellen frerch Maelgwn DINEFWR
  2. +Maelgwn ap Maelgwn DINEFWR

Lineage 

                                                                          _Rhys ap Tewdwr DINEFWR ____________+
                                                                         | (1040 - 1093)                      
                                    _Gruffydd ap Rhys DINEFWR ___________|
                                   | (1090 - 1137)                       |
                                   |                                     |_Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon MATHRAFAL _+
                                   |                                       (1060 - 1137)                      
 _Rhys ap Gruffydd DINEFWR ________|
| (1130 - 1197)                    |
|                                  |                                      _Gruffudd ap Cynan ABERFFRAW _______+
|                                  |                                     | (1055 - 1137) m 1082               
|                                  |_Gwenllian verch Gruffydd ABERFFRAW _|
|                                    (1097 - 1136)                       |
|                                                                        |_Angharad ferch Owain DINEFWR ______+
|                                                                          (1065 - 1162) m 1082               
|
|--Maelgwn ap Rhys DINEFWR 
|  (1170 - 1230)
|                                                                         _Maredudd ap Bleddyn MATHRAFAL _____+
|                                                                        | (1047 - 1131)                      
|                                   _Madog ap Maredudd MATHRAFAL ________|
|                                  | (1091 - 1159)                       |
|                                  |                                     |_Hunedd ferch EINUDD _______________
|                                  |                                       (1063 - 1132)                      
|_Gwenllian ferch Madog MATHRAFAL _|
                                   |
                                   |                                      _Gruffudd ap Cynan ABERFFRAW _______+
                                   |                                     | (1055 - 1137) m 1082               
                                   |_Susanna ferch Gruffudd ABERFFRAW ___|
                                     (1106 - 1165)                       |
                                                                         |_Angharad ferch Owain DINEFWR ______+
                                                                           (1065 - 1162) m 1082

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