Born in 1097 in Aberffraw Castle, Princess Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd ap Cynan was always destined for great things. As daughter to one of Gwynedd's greatest warriors she grew up
strong and passionate -- more than a match for her older brothers.
At sixteen Gwenllian's life changed forever when she fell in love with Prince Gruffydd ap Rhys, the beleaguered heir to Rhys ap Tewdur of Deheubarth. Together husband and wife fought for and ruled southern Wales, challenging the Norman Conquest of Wales and proving once and for all the nobility and courage of the Welsh people, a courage that endures across the centuries and lives in the heart of every Welsh man, woman, and child.
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At home, King Henry of England had worse problems to deal with than the battle prowess of the children of King Gruffydd ap Cynan. In eleven twenty his only legitimate son with Queen Matilda of Scotland drowned in a terrible shipwreck off the coast of Normandy. With his surviving daughter Matilda safe in Germany and ruling as its empress, King Henry considered the succession secure. And why should it not be? Surely a legitimate daughter of his body was better heir than a nephew by his sister Adela of Normandy!
As the year eleven thirty five waned and King Henry sickened who could have imagined the treachery waiting to destroy not only the hopes and dreams of the king but those of every Welsh man, woman, and child over the next nine hundred years? After all, the king’s daughter was in Anjou with her son Henry, far too far away to stop a grandson of William the Conqueror with dreams of seizing the throne for himself.
Study Questions
In Gwenllian’s time Ceredigion is part of Deheubarth. Describe it. Why does Gruffydd ap Rhys talk about that part of his realm?
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