Morgan ap Maredudd

Morgan ap Maredudd († 1331 ) was a leader of the Welsh rebellion of 1294 in Glamorgan.

Probably was a son of Maredudd ap Gruffudd, the last Welsh Lord of Caerleon and his wife Maud. About his father he was therefore a direct descendant of Caradog ap Gruffydd, the last Welsh King of Gwent. His father had been expelled in 1270 as a supporter of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd of Gilbert de Clare from his rule.

During the uprising of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294 he was the leader of the rebels in Glamorgan. The rebels were at the beginning of the uprising the hated at the Welsh population Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan distribute. Even when he returned with troops, Morgan and his supporters against de Clare could say. When the uprising, however, in the spring of 1195 collapsed in north and west Wales, Morgan surrendered in the face of the English superiority in June King Edward I.. He claimed not against the king, but only against the unjust rule de Clare rebels and to have been in Unlike other leaders of the rebellion pardoned. The king gave the back pacified Glamorgan not immediately de Clare back, but imputed it to 1296 royal administration. De Clare died shortly afterwards, and the new husband of his widow gave Morgan ap Maredudd the lifelong use of a Commotes in Caerleon. As Gilbert de Clare, son de Clare came of age, he recanted these terms, but he already fell in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn. Morgan could even until his death acquire parts of the town of St Clears and other lands in Carmarthenshire and Gwynedd.

His daughter married Angharad Llywelyn from Ifor, Lord of St Clears and became the ancestress of the Morgan of Tredegar family.