Rhys Fychan/ Ieuanc ap Rhys Mechyll

From Darrell Wolcott as cited below: Rhys Fychan aka Gryg, born c. 1165.  He was first noticed in the Brut in 1195 when he and his brother Maredudd took the castle at Dinefwr.  He battled against his nephews, the sons of Gruffudd, for several years...sometimes as an ally of Gwynedd's Llewelyn Fawr and sometimes siding with King John.  In 1213, he was placed in the king's prison but released in 1215 after giving his son Rhys Fychan as a hostage.  Thereafter, he was called Rhys Gryg and his son later become known as Rhys Mechyll who also named a son Rhys Fychan, usually called Ieuanc.  He married (1) a daughter (c. 1180) of Gilbert de Clare III[9]; (2) Ellyw (c. 1170) ferch Trahaearn ap Gwgan ap Gwgan ap Bleddyn ap Maenyrch[10]; and (3) Gwenllian (c. 1165) ferch Elidyr ap Owain ap Idnerth ap Cadwgan ap Elystan Glodrydd.[11]  Rhys Gryg died in 1233. ---(Steven Ferry, 7/9/17.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Ancestry of Owain Glyndwr; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html. (Steven Ferry, July 7, 2017.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Children of Lord Rhys; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id187.html. (Steven Ferry, July 9, 2017.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Maredudd Gethin ap Lord Rhys; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id213.html. (Steven Ferry, July 12, 2017.)

Please see Peter Bartrum: Gruffudd ap Cynan 5; https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173392536826 & Rhys ap Tewdwr 8; https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173393022947 (Steven Ferry, November 23, 2024.)

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He was the son of a Welsh and Anglo-Norman alliance that apparently was strained; in 1248, he took back his castle (Carreg Cennen), which his mother had given to the French (that is, the Normans), out of enmity towards her son. (See Thomas Jones's translation of Peniarth MS 70 (1080.)