Cristin ferch Gronwy ab Owain

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum gives Cristin a number of 3 in his generational dating system, which implies a birth date of, very roughly, about 1100.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Gronwy ab Owain ab Edwin.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 1).

Mother: Genilles ferch Hoedlyw ab Ithel.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 1). Ithel is said to be a descendant of Coel Hȇn.

Spouse: Owain Gwynedd ap Gruffudd ap Cynan.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3) and given by Pryce (ODNB).

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.)

Cadwallon.

Rhodri (died 1195) married (1) Gwenllian ferch yr Arglwydd Rhys in 1188; married (2) a daughter of Reginald, King of Man.

Angharad married Gruffudd Maelor.

Dafydd (died 1203) married Emma, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, comte d’Anjou.

References

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

The sources Bartrum gives for Cristin include:

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

2b. “Dauydd a Rodri a Chatwallawn abad Enlli ag Yngharad, wraig Gruffudd Maelawr, plant Ywain Gwynedd, a Christin verch Oronw ap Owain ap Edwyn eu mam.”

2c. “Mam Gristin: Genilles verch Hoedlyw ap Ithael ap Edryd ap Iuethan ap Iasseth ap Karwed ap Marchudd.”

Bartrum, Peter C., “Edwin 1” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The source Bartrum cites for Cristin is his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.]

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):

12. Plant Ywain Gwyned:

12.2 Dafyd a Rodri a C[h]atwallawn abad Enlli ag Angharat gwreig Gruffud Maelor, meibion Ywein Gwyned, Christin ferch Gronw ap Ywein ap Edwin eu mam.

12.2.1 <Mam Gristin oed> Genilles ferch Hoedlyw ap Ithael ap Edrit ap Inethan ap Iaseth ap Karwet ap Marchud.

Pryce, Huw. “Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).