Families of Ceredigion
Ceredigion (Cardiganshire)
Aberystwyth and the western coast, cradle of Welsh-language scholarship.
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Families seated in Ceredigion
- EvansSon of John, by the Welsh road, the cousin name of Jones.
- LloydLlwyd, the grey one, the great descriptive surname of the central Welsh ridge.
- ReesFrom Rhys, the name of the most consequential prince of 12th-century Wales.
- HowellsSon of Hywel the Good, the surname of the great Welsh law-king.
- MeredithSon of the great lord, princely surname of Deheubarth.
Historic ties to Ceredigion
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Ceredigion.
- Hywel DdaThe tenth-century King of Deheubarth and effective overlord of most of Wales who at the synod of Whitland around 945 codified the laws of Wales, the legal system that governed the country in its native form for the next two and a half centuries until the Edwardian conquest of 1282.
- The Lord RhysThe Prince of Deheubarth whose forty-two-year reign from 1155 to 1197 held the southern half of Wales against the Norman advance, won the formal recognition of Henry II at the Council of Gloucester in 1175, and in 1176 hosted at Cardigan Castle the first recorded eisteddfod, the founding event of the Welsh bardic tradition.