Ednyfed

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 34) shows Cynwrig. Pierce (DWB, Rhirid Flaidd) states that Rhirid is said to have married “Gwenllian, daughter of Ednyfed ap Rhiwallon of Brochdyn or Broughton”.

(supposed) Mother: Annes ferch Idnerth Benfras.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 34).

Spouse: Gwladus ferch Aldud.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 38).

(possible) Spouse: Efa ferch Einion.

This relationship is given a question mark by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 38).

Children (by Gwladus):

(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.)

Gwenllian married Rhirid Flaidd.

(possible) Children (by Efa):

Einion

Children (mother unknown):

Gruffudd.

Tudur Felyn.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Tudur Trefor 38” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Ednyfed are his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts and Peniarth 131 (124), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 131 (54), written early in the reign of Henry VIII; Peniarth 129 (72), copied in 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 127 (109), by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; Peniarth 176 (68), by Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564)].

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

The sources Bartrum gives for Ednyfed include:

Hen Lwythau Gwynedd a’r Mars.

13d. “Madoc ap Rririd vlaidd. I vam oedd Wenllian verch Ednyfed ap Kynwric ap Rriwallon o Vaelor.

Pierce, Thomas Jones. “Rhirid Flaidd” in Welsh Biography Online.