Rhys Mechyll

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Rhys Mechyll (* around 1170 ; † 1244 at Dinefwr Castle ) was a Welsh Lord of Deheubarth from the Dinefwr dynasty .

He was the older and presumably illegitimate son of Rhys Gryg . As early as 1227 he had persuaded his father to give him Llandovery Castle as his own property. After the death of his father in 1234 he inherited the larger, southern part of Ystrad Tiwy with Dinefwr Castle, while the northeastern part with Llandovery and Dryslwyn Castle fell to his younger half-brother Maredudd ap Rhys . The two castles, Dryslwyn and Dinefwr Castle, were only a few kilometers apart and the division of the inheritance was a conflict between the brothers over the next few years.

In his first marriage he married a Miss Croft of Croft Castle in Herefordshire , with whom he had a son Rhys Fychan . After the death of his first wife, he married Matilda de Braose, a daughter of the Marcher Lord Reginald de Braose, around 1219 . He has a daughter with her, Gwenllian.

His heir will initially be his son Rhys Fychan. Rhys Mechyll's widow Matilda was so feuding with her stepson that after the death of her husband she surrendered the Carreg Cennen Castle to the English, but in 1248 the castle was regained by Rhys Fychan. After Rhys Fychan's son Rhys Wyndod had to hand over Dinefwr Castle to the English during Edward I's first campaign against Wales in 1277, Rhys Mechyll's daughter Gwenllian, who had married the English knight Gilbert Talbot of Linton and Credenhill († September 1274) in 1249, her father's property. Her grandson Gilbert Talbot became Lord Chamberlain of King Edward III in 1331 . and raised to 1st Baron Talbot, his descendants later received the title of Earl of Shrewsbury .

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Individual evidence

  1. Chris Caple: Excavations at Dryslwyn Castle 1980-95 (Society for Medieval Archeology monograph, 26). Maney Publ., Leeds 2007. ISBN 978-1-905981-88-5 , p. 33
  2. ^ Oxford DNB: Maredudd ap Rhys. Retrieved January 10, 2014 .
  3. Barons de Braose: Matilda de Braose. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2012 ; accessed on January 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freespace.virgin.net