MORGAN
,
rebel
of
1294
.
He was the
leader
of the
Glamorgan
insurgents during the rising of
Madog ap Llywelyn
(q.v.)
in
1294-5
. Owing to personal grievances against the
De Clares
, he claimed to be at war only against the
lords of Glamorgan
. He may, therefore, have been
Morgan ap Maredudd
, a direct descendant of
Rhydderch ap Iestyn
(q.v.)
[No article found]
; his father,
Maredudd
, the last native
lord
of
Caerleon
, had been deprived twenty years earlier by
Gilbert de
Clare
. He has also been described in one contemporary chronicle as
Rhys ap Morgan
, which suggests some confusion with
Rhys
, the younger son of
Morgan Fychan ap Morgan Gam
(q.v.)
.
Morgan
submitted to the king in
July 1295
, and obtained the royal clemency. His daughter,
Angharad
, was an ancestress of the
Morgan
of
Tredegar
family. [See
Morgan ap Hywel
for
Maredudd
].
Bibliography:
-
J. E. Morris
,
The Welsh Wars of Edward I a contribution to
mediaeval military history, based on original
documents
, Oxford, 1901
;
-
Bridgeman
,
History of the Princes of South Wales
,
1876
.
Author:
Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, M.A., F.S.A., (1905-1964),
Aberystwyth
