His Body Was Conveyed Honourably To Powys, And Buried At
Myvod." His Son Gruffydd Succeeded Him In The Lordship Of
Bromfield, And Died About The Year 1190.
6.
Rhys ap Gruffydd, or
the lord Rhys, was son of Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Tewdwr, who died in
1137. The ancient writers have been very profuse in their praises
of this celebrated Prince. 7. David, son of Owen Gwynedd, who, on
the death if his father, forcibly seized the principality of North
Wales, slaying his brother Howel in battle, and setting aside the
claims of the lawful inheritor of the throne, Iorwerth Trwyndwn,
whose son, Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, in 1194, recovered his inheritance.
8. Howel, son of Iorwerth of Caerleon, appears to have been
distinguished chiefly by his ferocity.
{191} Malpas in Cheshire.
{192} It appears that a small college of prebendaries, or secular
canons, resided at Bromfield in the reign of king Henry I.; Osbert,
the prior, being recorded as a witness to a deed made before the
year 1148. In 1155, they became Benedictines, and surrendered
church and lands to the abbey of St. Peter's at Gloucester,
whereupon a prior and monks were placed there, and continued till
the dissolution. An ancient gateway and some remains of the priory
still testify the existence of this religious house, the local
situation of which, near the confluence of the rivers Oney and Teme,
has been accurately described by Leland.
{193} Baldwin was born at Exeter, in Devonshire, of a low family,
but being endowed by nature with good abilities, applied them to an
early cultivation of sacred and profane literature.
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