Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn

Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn († 1070 ) was together with his brother Bleddyn ruler of the Welsh principalities of Gwynedd and Powys .

Rhiwallon was the second son of Cynfyn ap Gwerstan, a nobleman from Powys and Angharad , the widow of Llywelyn ap Seisyll and daughter of Maredudd ab Owain , a king of Deheubarth . Through his mother he was a half-brother of the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn . After the death of her half-brother Gruffydd, the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor made his brother Bleddyn and him vassal kings of Powys and Gwynedd in 1064. He fell in 1070 at the Battle of Mechain, fighting against Gruffydd's sons Maredudd and Ithel, who also both fell. His brother Bleddyn remained ruler of Gwynedd and Powys until his death in 1075.

Rhiwallon left two sons and two daughters. His sons supported Bleddyn's cousin and successor Trahern ap Caradog . One son, Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon, was killed in action against Gruffydd ap Cynan at Clynnog Fawr in North West Wales in 1075 . His other son Meilyr fell in 1081 together with Trahern ap Caradog in the Battle of Mynydd Carn in the battle for Gwynedd against Rhys ap Tewdwr von Deheubarth and Gruffydd ap Cynan. Rhiwallon's daughter Gwladus married Rhys ap Tewdwr.

Web links

• Huw Pryce: Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (d. 1075). 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
• Thomas Jones Pierce: RHIWALLON ap CYNFYN (d. 1070), king of Powys In: Dictionary of Welsh Biography, The National Library of Wales

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Huw Pryce: Gruffudd ap Cynan (1054 / 5–1137). 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