The illustrious family of Dynevor or Dinefwr is lineally descended from Urien Rheged (600 A.D.) it is maternally connected with the house of Rhodri Mawr…
The RICE family derives it’s descent (maternally) from Rhodri Mawr…
Mawr is a Hebrew word meaning light or luminary…
Rhodri Mawr was a Welsh king whose legacy has impacted the history of Wales…
The Royal House of Dinefwr was a cadet branch of the Royal House of Gwynedd, founded by King Cadell ap Rhodri (reign 872–909), son of Rhodri the Great…
Paternally, the Rice family descends from Urien Rheged…
In Arthurian legend, he inspired the character of King Urien…
Wales reached its zenith of power in the days of King Arthur, for in Gower lived Urien Rheged, the most famous of the knights of the Round Table…
Urien, was a late 6th-century king of Rheged, an early British kingdom of the Hen Ogledd (today's northern England and southern Scotland) of the House of Rheged…
The House of Rheged was an informal royal dynasty who ruled in the brittonic Kingdom of Rheged…
The line is traced back to Coel Hen… (Old King Coel)
The origins of the Welsh name Rice go back to those ancient Celts known as the Britons…
The Britons, also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages (800 B.C. to 1500 A.D.)
One of the earliest bearers of this masculine given name was Rhys ab Tewdwr ab Eineon ab Owen ab Howell Dda, also known as Rhys ab Tewdwr Mawr, who lived in medieval times or the Middle Ages, from the years 1065 to 1093 AD… (“ab” = son of)
He was the King of Debeubarth in Wales and a member of the Dinefwr dynasty…
The family of Rice is said to have sprung from
Sir Elidir Ddu…
SIR ELIDIR DDU (or Sir Elidir the Black, from the darkness of his complexion) a crusader, who received the honour of knighthood, as a Knight of the Sepulchre…
Du, Ddu, Dhu, Dubh, Duff = Black
The designation given by the common people of one race to another is almost invariably founded upon some physical feature, and the most natural distinction is that of colour where the races differ in complexion…
The invading whites styled the "Indians" of America "Red-skins," and these again called their conquerors "Pale-faces."
A native Australian is a "black-fellow" to the modern Briton…
Other "Blacks" are roughly spoken of by us either under that title or, under its other form, as “Negroes."
Therefore, when the white races of Britain styled Sir Elidir “Ddu” (“the black”), they simply made use of the most natural term that could occur to them…
This family, long resident in the county of Carmarthen, claims descent from a common ancestor with the noble house of Dynevor—Urien Reged.
In days gone by Sir Elidir Ddu, Knight of the Sepulchre in the reign of the first Richard, lived at Kidwelly Castle. He was the lineal descendant of Urien Reged…
Sir Elidir Dhu, [was] a descendant, according to the Welsh genealogies, of Coel Godebog, King of Britain (Old King Coel?)
Urien Reged, is stated to have been 5th in descent from Coel Godebog, monarch of Britain…
Rhodri Mawr king of North Wales, was according to the genealogies descended in the male line from Coel Hen Godebeg…
The seventh son of Sir Elidir, Philip, had himself many children, of whom Nicholas, the eldest son, was grandfather of Thomas, whose son, Sir Rhys Ap Thomas, was created a knight of the garter by Henry VII…
Sir Rhys ap Thomas (1449–1525) was a Welsh soldier and landholder who rose to prominence during the Wars of the Roses, and was instrumental in the victory of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth…
Some sources claim that he personally delivered the death blow to King Richard III at Bosworth with his poleaxe…
With old Welsh genealogies, I trace my European descent from Old King Coel, Urien Rheged, Rhodri Mawr, Sir Elidir the Black & Sir Rhys ap Thomas…
SOURCES;
(Mark Antony Lower, "Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom" 1860)
(John Burke, “A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours”; 1836)
(John Rowlands, “Historical Notes of the Counties of Glamorgan, Carmarthen and Cardigan”; 1866)
(Archaeologia Cambrensis, the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association; 1872)
(Gwaith Lewis Glyn Cothi, ‘The Poetical Works of Lewis Glyn Cothi, a Celebrated Bard, who Flourished in the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III, and Henry VII’; 1837)
(The Red Dragon: Volume 4; 1883)
(W. Lewe; “The Athenaeum”; 1841)
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