Ednyfed ap Tudur ap Gronwy

Ednyfed was of Trecastell.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum (Marchudd 13) gives Ednyfed a number of 10 in his generational dating system, which implies a date of, very roughly, about 1330.

Date of Death: about 1382.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given Chapman (p. 88).

Relationships

Father: Tudur ap Gronwy ap Tudur.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 13). It is given by Carr (1990, p. 2), and by Roberts (WBO; 1969, p. 274).

Mother: Mallt ferch Madog ab Iorwerth.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 13). Roberts (p. 198) and Carr (1975, p. 56) state that Ednyfed's mother was Tudur's second wife, Margaret ferch Thomas ap Llywelyn.

Spouse: Gwenllian ferch Dafydd ap Bleddyn Fychan.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 13). It is given by Carr (1975, p. 57). Roberts (1969, p. 201 n.) states that Ednyfed appears to have married as his second wife a certain "Marvred" who later married John Hammond.

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.)

Angharad married Ieuan ab Adda.

Myfanwy married (1) Rhys ap Cynwrig; married (2) Maredudd ab Adda Moel.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Marchudd 13” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources Bartrum cites for Ednyfed are: Peniarth 129 (61, 90, 104), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 127 (31, 196), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523.]

Carr, Antony David. The Mostyn Family and Estate, 1200-1643 (PhD thesis, University of Wales, 1975).

Carr, A.D. “Gwilym ap Gruffydd and the Rise of the Penrhyn Estate” in Welsh History Review Vol. 15, no. 1 (June 1990), pp. 1-20.

Carr, A.D. Medieval Anglesey. (Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 2011) 2nd ed.

Chapman, Adam. Welsh Soldiers in the Later Middle Ages 1282-1422. (The Boydell Press, 2015).

Roberts, Glyn. “Ednyfed Fychan” in Welsh Biography Online.

Roberts, Glyn. “Wyrion Eden’: The Anglesey Descendants of Ednyfed Fychan in the Fourteenth Century” in Aspects of Welsh History. (University of Wales Press, 1969).