Around 1164, Rhys ap Gruffydd, Prince of South Wales, conquered Cardigan, and brought it again under Welsh rule, and by a grant confirmed the gift of the then existing priory cell of Cardigan to the Benedictine Black Monks of Chertsey Abbey, at which time the Gloucester monks were sent away.
Gwenwynwyn later handed him over to the king, who imprisoned him at Corfe Castle.
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Rhys died excommunicate, having quarreled with the Bishop of St. David's, Peter de Leia, over the theft of some of the bishop's horses some years previously.
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Maelgwn was the son of Rhys ap Gruffydd (The Lord Rhys) by his wife Gwenllian ferch Madog, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd prince of Powys.
Rhys Gryg – fourth son of Rhys ap Gruffydd (The Lord Rhys) – of Deheubarth occupied the peninsula in 1215, but in 1220 he ceded the area to the English, apparently on the orders of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth.
Rhys was the fourth son of Rhys ap Gruffydd (The Lord Rhys) and his wife Gwenllian, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys.
Gruffydd was the eldest son of Rhys ap Gruffydd by his wife Gwenllian, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd prince of Powys.
Maelgwn ap Rhys (c. 1170 - 1230), son of Rhys ap Gruffydd and ruler of part of Deheubarth