Angharad ferch Owain ap Maredudd

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 1279.

Richards (p. 217) notes that Angharad was claiming the cantref of Cydewain on 9 December 1279.

Relationships

Father: Owain ap Maredudd ap Robert (died 1261).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog), and given by Smith, and by the Welsh Assize Roll, 1277-1284 (p. 156, p. 242).

Mother: Margred ferch Maelgwn Fychan.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog) and given by Richards (p. 203).

Spouse: Owain ap Maredudd ab Owain (died 15 August 1275).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Rhys ap Tewdwr 7, Trahaearn ap Caradog 6), and given by Bridgeman (p. 233, p. 249), by Richards (p. 201), and by the Welsh Assize Roll, 1277-1284 (p. 243). Smith discusses the dower arrangements.

Spouse: Sir Walter de Pedwarden.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog), and given by Smith, and by Richards (p. 206).

Children (by Owain):

Llywelyn (died 1309).

Evidence

Pryce (no. 71) gives a grant in free marriage from Owain(us) filius Maredut filii Oweni to his wife Agarat filie^a Oweni made 24 January 1273 at Llanbadarn Trefeglwys.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Rhys ap Tewdwr 6”, “Rhys ap Tewdwr 7”, and “Trahaearn ap Caradog” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources Bartrum cites for Angharad are: Peniarth 131 (126 †, 132 †) -- a MS written about 1480 by Gutun Owain;; Peniarth 129 (66 †) -- a copy made about 1500 of a MS written about 1497 by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 137 (32 †) -- a MS written in the early 1500s by ‘Syr’ Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deiews; Lewys Dwnn ii 54; Harley 5835, written about 1610; The Welsh Assize Roll p. 242, p. 255; and Bridgeman p. 259]

Bridgeman, George T.O. History of the Princes of South Wales (Wigan: Thomas Birch, 1876).

Davies, James Conway (ed.). The Welsh Assize Roll, 1277-1284: Assize Roll, no. 1147 (Public Record Office), (University of Wales, 1940).

Davies, R.R. The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr. (Oxford U.P., 1995).

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).

Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh Noblewomen in the Thirteenth Century: An Historical Study of Medieval Welsh Law and Gender Roles (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009).

Smith, J. Beverley. “Dower in Thirteenth-Century Wales: a Grant of the Commote of Anhuniog, 1273” in The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 30 (ii) (University of Wales Press, 1982-3) pp. 348-355.