MAREDUDD ab OWAIN ab EDWIN
(d.
1072
),
king of Deheubarth
.
He stood five generations from
Hywel Dda
and was second cousin in the senior line to
Rhys ap Tewdwr
(q.v.)
. When
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn
(q.v.)
fell in
1063
, the old dynasty was restored under his leadership. His reign coincides with the first impact of the
Norman conquest
on
South Wales
. After a brief and unequal struggle, he acquiesced in the conquest of the border lands of
Gwent
and was rewarded by grants of land in
England
. This was in
1070
. Two years later he was killed by a fellow prince
fighting
on the
banks of the Rhymney
. He left one son,
Gruffudd
, who lived in exile on his father's
English
manors until killed attempting to regain his patrimony from
Rhys ap Tewdwr
.
Bibliography:
-
A History of Wales
, 1911, 1930
Author:
Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, M.A., F.S.A., (1905-1964),
Aberystwyth.
