IORWERTH ap BLEDDYN
(d.
1111
)
,
son of
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn
(q.v.)
, and a
co-ruler of Powys
at the
close of the 11th cent
. As
vassal
of
Robert
of Montgomery
he was involved in the rebellion of
1102
. His desertion caused the collapse of the rising, and when he did not
receive the whole of the
Montgomery
inheritance in
Wales
, as he had hoped, he became troublesome to the
Crown
, and was imprisoned in
1103
. Released in
1110
to deal with his nephews, he met his death at the hands of one of these younger relatives, viz.
Madog ap Rhiryd
, in the following year. He left no descendants.
Author:
Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, M.A., F.S.A., (1905-1964),
Aberystwyth
