Tudwal Gloff
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Tudwal Gloff ({{langx|en|Tudwal the Lame}} or {{langx|cy|Tudwal ap Rhodri}}; born c. 860) was the youngest of the four sons of Rhodri the Great.{{cite web | url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tibart&id=I29252 | title=Tudwal Gloff's Ancestry | publisher=Ancestry.com | date=23 February 2014 | accessdate=2 March 2014}}
Life
He earned his epithet 'the Lame' after being wounded in his knee at the Battle of the Conwy in 881 AD fighting alongside his brothers against the invading Mercians. Because he had become lame, his brothers gave him the territory of Uchelogoed Gwynedd{{cite journal |last1=Vaughan |first1=Henry F. J. |title=Welsh Pedigrees |journal=Y Cymmrodor |date=1889 |volume=10 |page=115 |url=https://archive.org/stream/ycymmrodor10cymmuoft/ycymmrodor10cymmuoft_djvu.txt |accessdate=27 January 2019}} and the chief churches of Gwynedd.{{cite book |last1=Charles-Edwards |first1=T. M. |title=Wales and the Britons, 350-1064 |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford UP |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0198704911 |page=491 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AK_yn7Q3_x0C&pg=PA491 |accessdate=27 January 2019}} The arms borne by Tudwal Gloff were azure, a wolf saliant argent, langued armed gules.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland |publisher=Henry Colburn |date=1836 |location=London |page=3:512 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_yshsAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=27 January 2019}} He held the title Lord of Uchel Gwenydd.{{cite journal |editor-last1=Nicholas |editor-first1=Thomas |title=HEYWARD, John Heyward, Esq., of Cilbronnau, Cardiganshire, and Crosswood, Mont. |journal=Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales |date=1872 |volume=1 |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iD4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA196 |accessdate=27 January 2019}} He married Helen, daughter of Aleth, ruler of Dyfed.{{cite book |last1=Nicholas |title=Heyward |year=1872 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iD4LAAAAYAAJ&q=Tudwal+Gloff&pg=PA196}}
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Category:Year of death unknown
Category:9th-century Welsh people
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