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for the release of her husband and their eldest son, Owain, and to hand over her two youngest sons, Dafydd and Rhodri, to the king as hostages to ensure that she kept her part of the bargain. Henry did not keep his part however, and kept Gruffudd and his son imprisoned as "guests" because this
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However, Gruffudd died while attempting to escape from the Tower in 1244. He is said to have used an improvised rope made from sheets and clothes to lower himself from his window, but as he was a heavy man, the rope broke and he fell to his death.
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Gruffudd was held prisoner by his brother Dafydd when the latter took over Gwynedd. Following a successful invasion of the Welsh borders by King
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by his father, though in 1221 he was removed for maladministration of those lands. In 1223 he commanded a force of his father's army, against
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According to several non-contemporary Welsh genealogical tracts, the mother of Llywelyn was Rhanullt, an otherwise unknown daughter of
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attributed to Gruffudd as it appears in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 16 II (
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arranged for the return of his body to Wales, where he was buried at Aberconwy with his father.
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in 1241, Dafydd was obliged to hand over Gruffudd into the king's custody, he was then taken to
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continued to give him the possibility of using Gruffudd as a weapon against his brother.
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as a pledge for his father's continued good faith. A clause in
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As a boy, Gruffudd was one of the hostages taken by King
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Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr

Tower of London
England
Senana ferch Caradog
Issue
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
Owain Goch ap Gruffydd
Dafydd ap Gruffydd
Rhodri ap Gruffudd
House
Aberffraw
Llywelyn the Great
Tangwystl
Welsh
Llywelyn the Great
John of England
Magna Carta
Welsh law
Dafydd
Joan
Ardudwy
Merioneth
William Marshal
commotes
Llŷn
Ceri
Cyfeiliog
Mawddwy
Mochnant

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