Events
Date of Birth: about 980.
This estimated date is given by Bartrum (EVWG “Early Series [42]”).
Relationships
Father: Maredudd ab Owain ap Hywel Dda (died 999).
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG “Early Series [42]”), and given by Davies (p. 10), by Maund (1991, pp. 18-20), and Thornton (ODNB; 1997, p. 569).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Llywelyn ap Seisyll (died 1023).
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG “Early Series [41]”, “Early Series [42]”), and given by Davies (p. 10), and by Maund (1999, p. 66).
Spouse: Cynfyn ap Gwerystan.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG “Early Series [42]”, “Early Series [47]”), and given by Davies (p. 10), and by Maund (1999, p. 66).
Children (by Llywelyn):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Bartrum.)
Gruffudd (about 1013 - 1063) married Ealdgyth, daughter of Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia.
Children (by Cynfyn):
Bleddyn (died 1075) married Haer ferch Cillin, a daughter of Brochwel, and two other wives.
Rhiwallon (died 1069).
References
Baldwin, Stewart. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table. (Hosted at Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Accessed 23 May 2014).
Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).
The sources Bartrum gives for Angharad are:
Jesus College MS. 20 -- (dated to the first part of the 14th century):
27. “Rees gryc mab merch Madawc m. Meredud m. Bledynt [m.] Kynwyn m. Gwedylstan. (m. Kynvin). Y (Kynvin) [Bledynt] hwnnw, a Gruffud vab Llewelyn, (a Thrahayarn m. Cradawc, trí) broder oedynt, meibon y Hagharat merch Maredud mab Ewein m. Howel da.
Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru (probably based on 15th century MSS):
1. (e): “Mam Vleddyn ap Kynvyn, Yngharad verch Veredydd ap Owain ap Howel dda ap Kadell ap Rodri Mawr…”
2. (f): “Mam Iwerydd: Yngharad verch Veredydd ap Owain ap Hawel dda ap Kadell ap Rodri mawr.”
7. (k): “Plant Maredudd ap Ewein: Katwallawn ag Angharat mam Ruffudd ap Llewelyn ap Seisill, a mam Vleddyn ap Kynfyn, a mam Rriwallon ap Kynvyn ac Ewerydd.”
Brut y Tywysogion (87)
Bartrum, Peter C., “Early Series [42]” and “Early Series [47]” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
The source Bartrum cites for Angharad is his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.
Davies, Sean. The First Prince of Wales? Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, 1063-75. (University of Wales Press, 2016).
Guy, Ben. Medieval Welsh Genealogy. (The Boydell Press, 2020).
From Guy’s critical edition of the Llywelyn ab Iorwerth genealogies, which were based on an archetype created no later than the first half of the fourteenth century from an original compilation dating to the early thirteenth century, partly based on earlier written sources (Note that Guy is striving for textual rather than genealogical accuracy):
11.1.4 Mam Vledyn ap Kynfyn: Angharat ferch Maredyd ap Ywein ap Hywel Da ap Kadell ap Rodri Mawr ap Merfyn Vrych a[p] Gwryat ...
Lloyd, John Edward, A History of Wales. 2 volumes (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911-1912).
Maund, K.L. Ireland, Wales, and England in the Eleventh Century (The Boydell Press, 1991).
Maund, K.L. "Owain ap Cadwgan: a Rebel Revisited" in The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History Volume 13 (1999).
Pryce, Huw. “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (d. 1075)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Thornton, David E. “Maredudd ab Owain (d. 999)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Thornton, David E. "Maredudd ab Owain (d. 999): The Most Famous King of the Welsh" in Welsh History Review Vol. 18, no. 4 (Dec. 1997), pp. 567-597.
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Annales Cambriæ (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).