Sir Hywel ab Iorwerth, Lord of Caerleon

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/5299/Bleddyn... (May 6, 2017; Anne Brannen, curator)

See Darrell Wolcott, http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id214.html, "the 'Next Heir' of Morgan of Caerleon," for the untangling of these lines. (April 21, 2016, Anne Brannen, curator)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Herbert Family Pedigree; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id40.html. (Steven Ferry, April 21, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Two Families Headed by a Rhydderch ap Iestyn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id212.html. (Steven Ferry, July 18, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Sorting Out the Gwaithfoeds; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id125.html. (Steven Ferry, September 5, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Children of Lord Rhys; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id187.html. (Steven Ferry, September 15, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Maredudd Gethin ap Lord Rhys; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id213.html. (Steven Ferry, September 17, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The 'Next Heir' of Morgan of Caerleon; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id214.html. (Steven Ferry, September 18, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Ifor Bach, Lord of Senghenydd; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id316.html (Steven Ferry, August 4, 2023.)

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Hywel ab Iorwerth [Hywel of Caerleon] (d. in or before 1216) continued to rule as lord of Caerleon until the reign of John. A number of charters, in which he is styled Hywel of Caerleon, attest to his authority in the lowland area of Llefennydd, his control over Caerleon and the forest of Gwynllŵg (that is, upland Gwynllŵg), and his advocacy of Goldcliff Priory. In 1184–5 he was allied with the king of England, leading a company in the defence of the lordship of Glamorgan, where he acted as castellan of Newcastle, near Bridgend.

By 1216 Hywel had been succeeded by his son, Morgan ap Hywel [Morgan of Caerleon] (d. 1248).

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The death of CARADOG put an end to effective Welsh leadership in south east Wales, and the Normans took over much of the fertile lowlands, though CARADOG’s son OWAIN WAN (the weak) did retain some influence. OWAIN’s eldest son Morgan was recognized as the Lord of Caerleon (west Monmouthshire) by king Henry II, and after his death in 1158 he was succeeded by his brother IORWERTH ab OWAIN. For some reason Henry dispossessed him in 1171, but two years later IORWERTH and his son HYWEL seized Caerleon and other castles in Monmouthshire. Though they lost them soon afterwards, their friendship with the LORD RHYS induced the king to return Caerleon to them, and in 1184 HYWEL was the only Welshman among six men who held castles in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire in the king’s name when the Welsh attacked Glamorgan (DWB “Morgan ap Hywel”, Bradney, Vol III, p.187). He was complimented by Gerald of Wales for “observing a strict neutrality between the Welsh and the English” (quoted by R.R.Davies, Conquest p.102). Lowland Monmouthshire had been under nominal Norman control for a century, but Davies noted: “It was indicative of continuing native influence in the area that when a Cistercian abbey was founded at Llantarnam near Caerleon in 1179, its mother house should be Strata Florida in the heart of native Wales, and its patron and protector was the local Welsh ruler in Monmouthshire, HYWEL ab IORWERTH ab OWAIN” (p.273).