Also known as Bleddyn ail mab.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Bartrum (Edwin 12) gives Bleddyn a number of 8 in his generational dating system, which implies a date of, very roughly, about 1270.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Ithel Llwyd ab Ithel Gam.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 12) and given by Carr (p. 60).
(possible) Mother: Margred ferch Hwfa.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 12).
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(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.)
Dafydd (died 1346), bishop of Llanelwy, bishop of St Asaph (1314-1346).
Ithel Anwyl (living 1326).
Gwenllian married Bleddyn ap Robert Goch.
Cynwrig.
Ieuan.
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Edwin 12” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
[The sources Bartrum cites for Bleddyn are: Peniarth 131 (56), written early in the reign of Henry VIII; Peniarth 129 (112), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 127 (125, 196), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; Peniarth 128 (589b), “Llyfr Edward ap Roger”, written before 1582; and Peniarth 176 (251) and Peniarth 134 (209) by Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564).]
Carr, A.D. “Lineage, Power, and Land in Medieval Flintshire” in Flintshire Historical Society Journal Vol. 36 (2003), pp. 59-81.