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Biography of Maredudd King Deheubarth 1130-1155

Paternal Family Tree: Aberffraw

Maternal Family Tree: Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd 1065-1162

Around 1113 [his father] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 32) and [his mother] Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 13) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Deheubarth. She the daughter of [his grandfather] King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 58) and [his grandmother] Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 48). He the son of [his grandfather] Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and [his grandmother] Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 53). They were half second cousin once removed.

In 1130 Maredudd King Deheubarth was born to Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 49) and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 30).

1136 Battle of Kidwelly

In 1136 a battle, or skirmish, was fought at Maes Gwenllian [Map] between the Welsh forces of [his mother] Gwenllian (age 36), wife of [his father] Gruffydd (age 55), with her two sons, and the Norman force of Maurice de Londres. Gwenllian and her two sons were killed.

. 1137. [his father] Griffyth-ap-Rhys (age 56), king of Wales, perished through the artifices of his [his mother] wife.¹

Note 1. So far from this being the case, Gwenlian, the wife of Griffythap-Rhys, prince of South Wales, a woman of a gallant spirit, seconded her husband's efforts for independence, and, in his absence, took the field in person at the head of her forces. See Giraldus Cambreensis Itin. i., c. iv., and Dr. Powell's notes: see also Warrington's History of Wales, p. 293.

In 1153 Maredudd King Deheubarth (age 23) succeeded King Deheubarth.

In 1155 Maredudd King Deheubarth (age 25) died.