Rhys ap Gruffydd (rebel)
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This article is about the 16th-century Welsh rebel. For the 14th-century nobleman and sometimes rebel, see Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd.
This Welsh name means Rhys son of Gruffydd.
Rhys ap Gruffydd (1508–December 1531) was a powerful Welsh landowner who was accused of rebelling against King Henry VIII by plotting with James V of Scotland to become Prince of Wales. He was executed as a rebel. He married Lady Catherine Howard (b. abt 1499 Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England), the daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and his second wife Agnes Tilney.
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By this marriage, he became the uncle of Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard, and granduncle of Queen Elizabeth Tudor.