Caradog ap Rhydderch

• Preferred Name: Caradog ap Rhydderch^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Gruffydd ap Rhydderch King of Deheubarth
  
• Alternate Name: Caradawg ap Rhydderch
  
• Alternate Name: Cradoc ap Rhydderch
  
• Alternate Name: Gruffyd AP Rhydderch
  
• Alternate Name: Caradawg ap Rhydderch
  
• Alternate Name: Gruffydd RHYDDERCH ( ap)
  
• Gender: M
  
• MilitaryService: killed by the "Saxons".1035
  
• FSID: LHDC-KF2
  
• Birth: 998 in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales at LATI: N1.6133 LONG: E2.9589
  
• Death: 1035 in Wales at LATI: N2.3302 LONG: E3.7664
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  
  Iorwerth ap Gwrgan
  Birth circa 1100 Betws Yn Rhos, Is Dulas, Denbighshire, Wales : Died 1137
  Immediate Family:Son of Gwrgan ap Idnerth and N.N. Husband of Gwenllian verch Rhirid Father of Cynwrig ab Iorwerth Occupation:Lord of Brynffenigl
  
  === See notation on the family group record ===
  See notation on the family group record of Gruffydd's father, Rhydderch/ap Iestyn.
  
  === Gruffydd ab Rhydderch (d 1055), king of ===
  Gruffydd ab Rhydderch (d 1055), king of the South Welsh, was the son of Rhydderch, son of Iestin, who in 1023 had assumed the government of the south after the death of Llewelyn ab Seisyll, and was killed by the Irish in 1033. The sons of Edwin, Hywel, and Maredudd, then acquired the rule of South Wales, but Gruffydd and his brothers contested it with them, fighting in 1034 the battle of Hiraethwy, Caradog, one of Gruffydd's brothers, was slain in 1035 in some contest with the English. In 1044 the death of Howel made Gruffydd and the other sons of Rhydderch the leaders of the South Welsh opposition of Gruffydd ab Llewelyn. In 1045 the Welsh chronicler complains of the deceit which the Sout Welsh Gruffydd and his brother Rhys perpetrated agains Gruffydd ab Llewelyn. A great struggle now broke out between them, in the course of which nearly all Deheubarth was laid waste. Gruffydd ab Ruydderch was also much engaged in attacks on the English. In 1046 Earl Swegen seems to have joined the North Welsh Gruffydd in his attacks on him. In 1049 Gruffydd joined with thirty-six Irish pirate ships in an attack on the coasts of the lower Severn, and inflicted great loss on the English, at the head of whom was Bishop Ealdred. In 1053 his brother Rhys became so troublesome that the witan decreed that he should be slain, 'and his head was brought to Gloucester on Twelfth-day eve.' At last in 1055 Gruffydd ab Rhydderch was slain by Gruffydd ab Llewelyn. He must have possessed unusmacl vigour of character to struggle so long both against the English and the North Welsh king. He left a son named Caradog, who in 1065 attacked the hintingseat which Earl Harold was building at Portskewet in Gwent, slew the workmen, and ravaged the neighbourhood. He afterwards obtained for a short time some share in the sovereignty of Deheubarth. [Dictionary of National Biography VIII:751]
  
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  Ruled Deheubarth 1047-1055
  
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  Gruffydd ap Rydderch ap Iestyn (d 1055), king. When Gruffudd ap Llywelyn took possession of Deheubarth in 1044, the South found a new focus of resistance in the leadership of Gruffydd ap Rhydderch. Independence was thus retrieved in 1045, and for ten years, until his fall in 1055, Gruffydd gave to his adopted 'patria' a vigorous government in which resistance to the Danes was a prominent feature. The sanction for his intervention in the affairs of Deheubarth came in part from his father's successful usurpation of power there during the years 1023-33. Gruffydd, moreover was already a 'king' in Glamorgan, probably over Gwynllwg, where his descendents enjoyed restricted power down to 1270. [Dictionary of Welsh Biography p318]
  
  === !#4568-v10-p758,776; !Arch Rec: History ===
  !#4568-v10-p758,776; !Arch Rec: History of Powys Fadog; Archaelogia Cambrensis; Dictionary of National Biography; Eminent Welshmen; History of Glamorgan; History of the Princes of South Wales; Royal Tribes of Wales; Genealogies of Morgan and Glamorgan; (birth 996/1042, death 1035); !ORD: TIB: SLAKE: Bap> SL 93370, End>;
  
  === Necessary Explanations: Gwent an ancient ===
  Necessary Explanations: Gwent an ancient territory including Monmouth, Glamorgan, Hereford and a part of Brecon.
  
  === !#4568-v2-p28; v10-p758; Archive Records ===
  !#4568-v2-p28; v10-p758; Archive Records - Genealogies of Morgan and Glamorgan; History of the Princes of South Wales; Eminent Welshmen; Archaelogia Cambrensis; Dictionary of National Biography; History of Powys Fadog; Royal Tribes of Wales; (birth 998/1010/1040); Temple Work - B: 1 Sep 1966, E: 10 Dec 1966, SS: 20 Sep 1967 SL; FN #R7TTSF;
  
  === The source "Eminent Welshmann", Wales 13 ===
  The source "Eminent Welshmann", Wales 13.
  
  === !#4568-v10-p760; ===
  !#4568-v10-p760;
  
  === 1010 ===
  1010
  
  === Work done twice: 1. .Gruffydd ap Rhydde ===
  Work done twice: 1. .Gruffydd ap Rhydderch Born: abt 998 Dth: 1055 at Wales Bap: 31 Jan 1956 End: 12 Nov 1957 Sld wif: 22 Oct 1958 SL

• m. 1034 in Monmouthshire, Wales

1. Rhydderch Ap Catadog, b. 1062 in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom     d. 1132 in England, United Kingdom

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Gruffudd Ap Rhydderch -
   Author: Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940; John Edward Lloyd & R T Jenkins, Ed. {1957}, Page number: 66, 318, 638
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742404
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Gruffudd Ap Rhydderch -
   Author: Welsh Genealogies, AD 300-1400; Peter C Bartrum, Page number: Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742563
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Gruffudd Ap Rhydderch -
   Author: Dictionary of National Biography, George Smith, Oxford Press, Vols 1-21 (Orignially published 1885-90),Ed by Sir Leslie S, Page number: VIII:751
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742373