Gruffudd from Ifor

Gruffudd from Ifor (also Gruffydd from Ifor ) († 1210 ) was a Welsh nobleman.

Gruffudd ab Ifor was a son of Ifor ap Meurig , lord of the Welsh rule Senghenydd . Before 1175, he inherited the small lordship in the Glamorgan highlands as his father's heir . That year he accompanied his uncle Lord Rhys to the court of King Henry II of England in Gloucester . Apparently, Gruffudd did not have such a hostile relationship with Earl William of Gloucester as his father, because William confirmed the donations from Gruffudd to Margam Abbey in the upper valley of the River Taff around Bargoed and Capel Gwladus . Gruffudd himself gave the abbey properties in the vicinity of Leckwith near Cardiff . His brothers Cadwallon and Meriadoc served in 1188 as commanders of 300 Welsh soldiers who moved to London in the service of King Richard I of Glamorgan to fight in the war against the French King Philip II . Gruffudd himself fought in the service of King John Ohneland in the Franco-English War from 1202 in Normandy . After his death he was buried in the Llantarnam Cistercian Abbey . His main heir was his son Rhys ap Gruffudd , while his younger son Gruffudd Bychan apparently received the estates west of Cardiff under the rule of his brother.

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• David Crouch: Ifor ap Meurig [called Ifor Bach] (fl. 1158). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004