Cadwaladr ap Gruffudd ap Cynan

Prince

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 29 February 1172.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Lloyd (DWB).

Date of Burial: unknown.

Place of Burial: Bangor cathedral.

The place is given by Lloyd (DWB).

Relationships

Father: Gruffudd ap Cynan ab Iago, king of Gwynedd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2) and given by Lloyd (DWB).

Mother: Angharad ferch Owain ab Edwin.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2) and given by Lloyd (DWB).

Spouse: Gwerful ferch Gwrgeneu.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2).

Spouse: Dyddgu ferch Maredudd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2).

Spouse: Alice de Clare.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2) and given by Lloyd (DWB). It is recorded in a grant to Haughmond Abbey (Pryce no. 197). Pryce argues that she may have been the widow rather than the daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare.

Spouse: Tangwystl ferch Cadwallon.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2).

Children (by Gwerful):

(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.)

Cadfan (living 1149) married Gwenllian ferch Owain Cyfeiliog; also married Lleucu ferch Ithel.

Children (by Dyddgu):

Maredudd Goch married Tangwystl ferch Llywelyn.

Einion.

Cadwallon.

Children (by Alice):

Cunedda.

Randwlff.

Gruffudd.

Richard married Annes ferch Gwyn Ddistain.

Children (by Tangwystl):

Owain Fychan.

Angharad.

Children (mother uncertain):

Margred married Anarawd ap Gruffudd.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Gruffudd ap Cynan 2” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources that Bartrum cites for Richard are Brut y Tywysogion and his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.]

Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).

The sources Bartrum gives for Rhicart include:

Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru (probably based on 15th century MSS):

Plant Katwaladyr ap Gruffudd:

3.a. “Katfan m. Katwaladyr, unfam oedd ag Ewein Kefeiliawg.

3.b. “Eynion a Maredudd goch a Chatwallawn meibion Katwaladyr m. Gruffudd, a Dyddgu ferch Maredudd ap Bleddyn eu mam.”

3c. “Kunedda a Rikerd a Rhandwlff a Gruffudd meibion Katwaladyr, ag Adles ferch iarll Klaer eu mam.

3.d. “Iwein vychan m. Katwaladyr, ag Angharat i chwaer. Tangwystl ferch Katwallawn m. Gruffudd eu mam.

4. Plant Kadwallawn Mab Gruffudd ap Kynan:

“Kunedda a Thangwystel, yr hon a vv yn planta o Gydwaladyr hewyrth. Ywein ap Gruffudd a beris dallu Kunedda i nai ap i vrawd ac etwa y diarhebir ‘Is Konwy o ryfel Kunedda.”

5. Plant Gruffudd ap Kynan ap Iago ap Idwal ap Meurig:

(a). “Ewain Gwynnedd a Chatwaladyr a Chatwallawn a Ranillt a Gwenlliant a Marfreda a Sussan ag Agnest. Angharat ferch Ywein ap Edwin eu mam.”

Hen Lwythau Gwynedd a’r Mars

9g. “Gwynn, yr hwnn a vv ddistain, [ap Ednywain] ap Eginir ap Gollwyn ap Tangno. Merch yr Gwynn hwnn oedd wraic Rikart ap Kydwaladr ap Gruffudd ap Kynan. Gwyr plwyf Bedd Kelert a ddon yr vn Gwynn [ap Ednywain] ap Eginir ap Gollwyn ap Tangno.”

Brut y Tywysogion 113 f.

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):

13.Plant Katwaladyr ap Gruffud <ap Kynan>

13.1 Katfan m. Katwaladyr: un fam oed ag Ewein Kefeiliawg

13.2 Eynion a Maredud Goch a Chatwallawn, meibion Katwaladyr m. Gruffud, a Dydgu ferch Maredud ap Bledyn eu mam.

13.3 Kuneda a Rikerd a Randwlff a Gruffud, meibion Katwaladyr, ag Adles ferch iarll <Caer> eu mam.

13.4 Iwein Vychan m. Katwaladyr ag Agharat <i> chwaer: Tagwystyl ferch Katwallan m. Gruffud eu mam.

15 Plant Gruffud ap Kynan:

15.1 Ewein a Chatwaladyr a Chatwallawn a Ranillt a Gwenlliant a <Maryreda> a Sussanna ag Agnest: Agharat ferch Ywein ap Edwin eu mam.

Lloyd, Sir John Edward “Cadwaladr” in Welsh Biography Online.

Pryce, Huw (ed.) The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Malta, 2005).

Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).