GWENLLIAN
(d.
1136
),
daughter of
Gruffudd ap Cynan
(q.v.)
, by
Angharad
, daughter of
Owen ap Edwin
. She m.
Gruffydd ap Rhys
(q.v.)
shortly after
1116
, the most famous of her sons being the
‘lord’ Rhys ap Gruffydd
(q.v.)
. At the opening of the
great Welsh uprising
in
1136
, she led an attack on the
Norman
fortress of
Kidwelly
, in her husband's absence, and was
killed fighting
outside the town, at a spot still known as
Maes Gwenllian
.
Author:
Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, M.A., F.S.A., (1905-1964),
Aberystwyth
