Morgan ap Maredudd

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Morgan ap Maredudd († 1331 ) was a leader of the Welsh uprising of 1294 in Glamorgan .

Life

Morgan ap Maredudd was believed to be a son of Maredudd ap Gruffudd , the last Welsh lord of Gwynllŵg and his wife Maud. Through his father he was thus a direct descendant of Caradog ap Gruffydd , the last Welsh king of Gwent . His father had been expelled from his rule by Gilbert de Clare in 1270 as a supporter of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd . In 1278 he applied in vain for de Clare Make , Edelegan and Llefnydd to get his father's possessions back.

During the uprising of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294 he was the leader of the rebels in Glamorgan. At the beginning of the uprising, the rebels were able to drive out Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan, who was hated by the Welsh population. Even when he returned with troops, Morgan and his supporters were able to hold their own against de Clare. However, when the uprising collapsed in North and West Wales in the spring of 1295, Morgan surrendered to King Edward I in June, faced with the overwhelming power of England . He claimed not to have rebelled against the king, but only against the unjust rule of de Clare. Unlike other leaders of the rebellion, he was then pardoned. The king did not immediately return the pacified Glamorgan to de Clare, but placed it under royal administration until 1296. De Clare died a little later, and Ralph de Monthermer , his widow's new husband, gave Morgan ap Maredudd the lifelong use of Edelgan, a commote in Caerleon. When Gilbert de Clare , de Clare's son came of age, he revoked this use. He exchanged Edelgan, from which Morgan earned about £ 15 a year, for inferior goods. Morgan was able to acquire parts of the city of St Clears and other lands in Carmarthenshire and Gwynedd until his death . As a military man, he led 1,000 foot soldiers from Glamorgan in the war against Scotland in 1317 . Until at least 1322 he was in royal service.

family

His daughter Angharad married Llywelyn ab Ifor , Lord of St Clears and became the ancestor of the Morgan of Tredegar family .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 133n.
  2. ^ So Nicholas Trivet in his Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt .
  3. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 244n.
  4. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 278n.
personal data
SURNAME Morgan ap Maredudd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh rebel
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1331
Place of death London