Individual Details
Prince Rhodri Owain
(1135 - 1195)
[[Category: Cymru 742-1535]]
[[Category:Wynne]]
[[Category: Cymru 742-1535]]
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==Biography==
=== Name ===
: Rhodri ab Owain of GwyneddRhodri ab Owain of Gwynedd (c. 1135 – 1195) was prince of part of Gwynedd (Northern Wales), one of the kingdoms of medieval Wales. He ruled from 1175 to 1195.
On the death of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, fighting broke out among his nineteen sons over the division of his kingdom. [[Owain-93|Rhodri]] and his brother [[Ap_Gwynedd-5|Dafydd ab Owain]] Gwynedd, Owain's legitimate sons by his wife [[Goronwy-3|Cristina]], defeated and killed their half brother [[Ap_Gwynedd-9|Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd]] at Pentraeth that year. The other sons were largely killed or exiled between 1170 and 1174.
=== Captured and imprisoned by Dafydd. ===1175 Rhodri escaped from captivity and was able to gain enough support to drive Dafydd out of the part of Gwynedd situated west of the River Conwy. Dafydd and Rhodri then agreed to the partition of Gwynedd between them, with Dafydd retaining only Gwynedd east of the Conwy and the island of Anglesey.
[[Iorweth-1|Llywelyn ''the Great'' ap Iorwerth]], had begun to put pressure on his uncles, Rhodri and Dafydd. Rhodri also came under pressure from his nephews Gruffydd and Maredydd ap [[Owain-80|Cynan]], who drove him from Anglesey in 1190. Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodri_ab_Owain_Gwynedd Rhodri ab Owain of Gwynedd]
===Marriage and Issue===Rhodri made an alliance with Ragnald, King of Mann and the Isles, and possibly married Ragnald's daughter. In 1193, with the help of a Manx contingent, he briefly regained Anglesey, but was ejected again the same year by Gruffydd and Maredudd.
Rhodri had three known sons;
#Tomas, Lord of Rhiw Llwyd
#Gruffudd
#EinionThe descendants of Prince Tomas were claimed by Sir John Wynn as his ancestors (a claim he would later have proven in court) and by the Anwyl of Tywyn Family. Rhodri died in 1195.Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodri_ab_Owain_Gwynedd Rhodri ab Owain of Gwynedd]
== Sources ==
* http://www.thepeerage.com/p40495.htm#i404944* Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Gwynedd Kingdom of Gwynedd]* ''The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis; The Itinerary of Wales and the Description of Wales'', Translated by Sir Richard Colt-Hoare (1894), p.445
[[Category:Wynne]]
[[Category: Cymru 742-1535]]
[[Category: Cymru 742-1535]]
}
[[Category: House of Aberffraw 742-1499]]
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==Biography==
=== Name ===
: Rhodri ab Owain of GwyneddRhodri ab Owain of Gwynedd (c. 1135 – 1195) was prince of part of Gwynedd (Northern Wales), one of the kingdoms of medieval Wales. He ruled from 1175 to 1195.
On the death of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, fighting broke out among his nineteen sons over the division of his kingdom. [[Owain-93|Rhodri]] and his brother [[Ap_Gwynedd-5|Dafydd ab Owain]] Gwynedd, Owain's legitimate sons by his wife [[Goronwy-3|Cristina]], defeated and killed their half brother [[Ap_Gwynedd-9|Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd]] at Pentraeth that year. The other sons were largely killed or exiled between 1170 and 1174.
=== Captured and imprisoned by Dafydd. ===1175 Rhodri escaped from captivity and was able to gain enough support to drive Dafydd out of the part of Gwynedd situated west of the River Conwy. Dafydd and Rhodri then agreed to the partition of Gwynedd between them, with Dafydd retaining only Gwynedd east of the Conwy and the island of Anglesey.
[[Iorweth-1|Llywelyn ''the Great'' ap Iorwerth]], had begun to put pressure on his uncles, Rhodri and Dafydd. Rhodri also came under pressure from his nephews Gruffydd and Maredydd ap [[Owain-80|Cynan]], who drove him from Anglesey in 1190. Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodri_ab_Owain_Gwynedd Rhodri ab Owain of Gwynedd]
===Marriage and Issue===Rhodri made an alliance with Ragnald, King of Mann and the Isles, and possibly married Ragnald's daughter. In 1193, with the help of a Manx contingent, he briefly regained Anglesey, but was ejected again the same year by Gruffydd and Maredudd.
Rhodri had three known sons;
#Tomas, Lord of Rhiw Llwyd
#Gruffudd
#EinionThe descendants of Prince Tomas were claimed by Sir John Wynn as his ancestors (a claim he would later have proven in court) and by the Anwyl of Tywyn Family. Rhodri died in 1195.Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodri_ab_Owain_Gwynedd Rhodri ab Owain of Gwynedd]
== Sources ==
* http://www.thepeerage.com/p40495.htm#i404944* Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Gwynedd Kingdom of Gwynedd]* ''The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis; The Itinerary of Wales and the Description of Wales'', Translated by Sir Richard Colt-Hoare (1894), p.445
Events
| Birth | 1135 | Nant Gwynant, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales | |||
| Death | 1195 | ||||
| Reference No | 8446412 | ||||
| Reference No | 8831306 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Owain ap Gruffydd (1078 - 1170) |
| Mother | Cristin Goronwy (1105 - ) |
| Sibling | Iefan Owain (1128 - ) |
| Sibling | Angharad Owain (1135 - ) |
| Sibling | Dafydd "Prince of Gwynedd" ab Owain Gwynedd (1136 - 1203) |
| Sibling | Margaret ferch Owain (1141 - ) |
| Sibling | Angharad "of Gwynedd" Gwynedd (1148 - ) |