Biography of Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth 1478-1521

Paternal Family Tree: Deheubarth

1497 Battle of Blackheath aka Deptford Bridge

1502 Death of Prince Arthur

1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold

Around 1478 Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth was born to Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 29) and Eve Gwilym (age 23).

Battle of Blackheath aka Deptford Bridge

On 17 Jun 1497 the Cornish rebel army was destroyed at the Battle of Blackheath aka Deptford Bridge.

Richard Guildford (age 47) was created Knight Banneret.

Edward Stafford 2nd Earl Wiltshire (age 27), Henry Willoughby (age 46), Edward Belknapp of Blackfriars in London and Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 25) fought at Deptford, Kent [Map].

Giles Brugge 6th Baron Chandos (age 35), John Hussey 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (age 32), Robert Sheffield (age 36), Edward Stanhope 1462-1487, John Peche (age 47) and Robert Constable (age 19) were knighted by King Henry VII of England and Ireland (age 40).

Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West (age 40) commanded.

James Tuchet 7th Baron Audley, 4th Baron Tuchet (age 34) was captured by Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 19).

Death of Prince Arthur

On 25 Apr 1502 Prince Arthur Tudor (deceased) was buried in the Chantry Chapel of Prince Arthur in Worcester Cathedral [Map].

Bishop William Smyth (age 42), Bishop of Lincoln and Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches, presided.

George Grey 2nd Earl Kent (age 48) and George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 34) received Arthur's Coat of Arms, Richard Grey 3rd Earl Kent (age 21) received Arthur's shield, John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Powis (age 17) received Arthur's sword, pommel forwards. Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 24) carried Prince Arthur's banner.

Gerald Fitzgerald 9th Earl of Kildare (age 15) rode Arthur's courser as the Man at Arms, in Arthur's full armour, carrying Arthur's poleaxe, pointed down, through the Nave to the Altar where he was stripped of Arthur's (deceased) clothes.

The Chapel is to the right of the High Altar in the Chancel. It is decorated with heraldic carvings symbolising the houses of York, Lancaster, Beaufort and Catherine of Aragon's Pomegranate. His Purbeck marble tomb chest is decorated with the arms of England. He is buried beneath the cathedral's floor several feet away from the tomb that visitors can see.

Around 1507 Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 29) and Catherine St John were married.

In 1508 [his son] Rhys ap Gruffydd Deheubarth was born to Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 30) and [his wife] Catherine St John.

Around 1516 [his step-son] Richard Edgecombe (age 17) and Elizabeth Arundell (age 16) were married. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Field of the Cloth of Gold

In Jun 1520 Henry VIII (age 28) hosted Field of the Cloth of Gold at Balinghem [Map].

Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset (age 42) carried the Sword of State.

Bishop John Stokesley (age 45) attended as Henry VIII's chaplain.

Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye (age 36), Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 42), Anthony Poyntz (age 40), William Coffin (age 25), William "Great" Courtenay (age 43), Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 37), William Paston (age 41), William Denys (age 50), Richard Cecil (age 25), William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton (age 37), Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland (age 22), John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 40), Henry Guildford (age 31), Marmaduke Constable (age 40), William Compton (age 38), William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy (age 42), Thomas Cheney (age 35), Henry Willoughby (age 69), John Rodney (age 59), John Marney 2nd Baron Marney (age 36), William Sidney (age 38), John de Vere 14th Earl of Oxford (age 20), John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 49), Edmund Walsingham (age 40), William Skeffington (age 55) and Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West (age 63) attended.

William Carey (age 20) jousted.

William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys Vyne (age 50) organised.

Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 15) attended.

Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham (age 50), Robert Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby 10th Baron Latimer (age 48), Anthony Wingfield (age 33), William Scott (age 61), Thomas Wriothesley (age 32), Bishop Thomas Ruthall (age 48), Margaret Dymoke (age 20) and Edward Chamberlayne (age 36) were present.

In 1521 Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 43) died. He was buried at Worcester Cathedral [Map] next to his childhood friend Prince Arthur Tudor.

[his father] Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth and Janet Mathew were married.

[his father] Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth and [his mother] Eve Gwilym were married.

John St John and Margaret Waldegrave were married.

John St John and Ann Nevill were married.

Ancestors of Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth 1478-1521

Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip ab Elidir Deheubarth

Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicolas ap Philip Deheubarth

Great x 4 Grandfather: Dafydd Fras

Great x 3 Grandmother: Gwladys

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gruffydd ap Nicholas Deheubarth

Great x 3 Grandfather: Gruffudd Unknown

Great x 2 Grandmother: Jonet Unknown

GrandFather: Thomas ap Gruffyd Deheubarth

Father: Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Gruffydd

GrandMother: Elizabeth Gruffydd

Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth

GrandFather: Henry Gwilym

Mother: Eve Gwilym