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. His good
conduct procured him the friendship of Bartholomew bishop of Exeter,
who promoted him to the archdeaconry of that see; resigning this
preferment, he assumed the cowl, and in a few years became abbot of
the Cistercian monastery at Ford. In the year 1180, he was advanced
to the bishopric of Worcester, and in 1184, translated to the
archiepiscopal see of Canterbury. In the year 1188, he made his
progress through Wales, preaching with fervour the service of the
Cross; to which holy cause he fell a sacrifice in the year 1190,
having religiously, honourably, and charitably ended his days in the
Holy Land.
{194} Giraldus here alludes to the dignity of archdeacon, which
Baldwin had obtained in the church of Exeter.
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