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Updated: May 31, 2025
This may be illustrated by the following poem by a Welsh friar of the thirteenth century, Madawc ap Gwallter: "A Son is given us, A kind Son is born ... A Son to save us, The best of Sons. A God, a man, And the God a man With the same faculties. A great little giant, A strong puny potentate Of pale cheeks.
He marched on to the valley of the Teivy, and he was joined by Sir Rees ap Thomas, and an army of South Wales men; he journeyed on through the valley of the Severn, and the North Wales men joined him; English nobles joined him as he marched by Shrewsbury, Stafford, Lichfield, and Tamworth. Richard's army was also on the march.
Mr Edward Owen, of the Cymmrodorion Society, has suggested that a certain Welsh noble, Bledri ap Cadivor, fulfils, in a large measure, the conditions required. Some years ago I published in the Revue Celtique a letter in which Mr Owen summarized the evidence at his disposal. As the review in question may not be easily accessible to some of my readers I will recapitulate the principal points.
They were walking now across the beach, at the edge of the surf. "It reminds me of something I read out to uncle last night. It was out of one of his old Welsh poets Taliesin, or Davydd ap Gwilym, or somebody. It was about the moon, but indeed I don't know if I can put it into English." "Try," said Cardo. "'She comes from out the fold And leads her starry flock among the fields of night."
I should have been loth to quit Wales without visiting the Deheubarth or Southern Region, a land differing widely, as I had heard, both in language and customs from Gwynedd or the Northern, a land which had given birth to the illustrious Ab Gwilym, and where the great Ryce family had flourished, which very much distinguished itself in the Wars of the Roses a member of which Ryce ap Thomas placed Henry the Seventh on the throne of Britain a family of royal extraction, and which after the death of Roderic the Great for a long time enjoyed the sovereignty of the south.
"So then, on the whole, these sea-side gentry are not uncivil: and, if it's they that tenant Ap Gauvon, perhaps they'll show a little hospitality to a wanderer like myself?" "Aye, but that's more than I'll answer for. I know little about Ap Gauvon: it's a place I never was at nor ever will be, please God.
You know I have been enabled to trace it back to Rhyddrch, or Rhodri, a prince who fought with and frequently defeated Ethelbald. You may not be aware, Mrs Jones, that our name, properly Prydderch, means Ap Rhyddrch, and that we owe it to this illustrious source. 'Now, aunt, exclaims Owen, 'never mention the Payne Perrys again. Why, you cannot light a candle to us.
"Jefan ap Huwal the prince sends greeting to the thane on the pied horse, and bids him and the lady come to him if there is need for help. He has heard that the thane serves the Frankish king who hates Saxons beyond the seas, and thinks that mayhap he has foes here in Mercia."
You want to leave 'em get good an' het-up before the stirrin' begins. If they're stirred up too soon, they're ap' to cruddle on you, an' never get that nice, smooth, thick, gooey look you like to see in rich custuds, same as love-affairs. I hope she didn't go an' have a scare on, an' give 'em to think she ain't healthy.
By the strength and position of Caerphilly, one may measure the power of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd after the Barons' War and before the accession of Edward I. The Prince of Wales had extended his sway down as far as Brecon, and Welshmen everywhere were looking to him as the restorer of their country's independence.
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