Angharad ferch Llywelyn Fawr ab Iorwerth

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

I have seen the date 1260 given, but I have not verified it.

Relationships

Father: Llywelyn Fawr ab Iorwerth Drwyndwn ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1240).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 4). Angharad seems to be mentioned in a 1260 letter patent of Rhys Fychan ap Rhys ap Maelgwn Fychan (Pryce no. 66).

Mother: uncertain.

Bartrum shows her mother as Joan, the illegitimate daughter of King John of England, citing Peniarth 131 (a manuscript written about 1480 by Gutun Owain), Peniarth 129 (a manuscript written about 1500 by Ieuan Brechfa), Peniarth 137 (a manuscript written about 1510 by “Syr” Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deiews; Peniarth 135 (a manuscript written by Gruffudd Hiraethog, who died in 1564); The Golden Grove Book; and Peniarth 287 (a manuscript by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, who died in 1667). "Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys" section 3d gives Joan as the mother: "Gwraic Maelgwn ifank oedd Angharad verch Llywelyn ap Ie[r]werth drwyndwnn o Sioned verch Iauan vrenin Lloegr i mam." Bartrum notes that the versions of "Plant yr Argwydd Rhys" that we have now were copied starting in about 1500, and the existing form of the genealogy was compiled not earlier than the mid-1300s. Lewys Dwnn (1:329), in contrast, gives Angharad's mother as Llywelyn’s mistress Tangwystl.

Spouse: Maelgwn Fychan ap Maelgwn Hên ap Rhys

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Gwenllian (died 1254) married Maredudd ap Llywelyn.

Margred (died 1255) married Owain ap Maredudd.

Elinor married Maredudd ab Owain.

Elinor married Owain (ap Madog).

Rhys (died 1255).

Llywelyn (died 1230).

References

Bartrum, Peter C. (ed.), “Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys” in National Library of Wales journal XIV. pp. 97-104.

Bartrum, Peter C., “Rhys ap Tewdwr 4” and “Gruffudd ap Cynan 4” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources Bartrum cites for Angharad are “Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys” (3d); Peniarth 131 (119, 182) -- a MS written about 1480 by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 129 (30, 76/7) -- a MS copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 137 (32, 79) -- written by “Syr” Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deiews about 1510.]

Dwnn, Lewys, and Samuel Rush Meyrick. Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the marches between the years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn. (Llandovery: William Rees, 1846).

Pryce, Huw. The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)