Efa ferch Gruffudd ap Tudur

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Gruffudd ap Tudur ap Madog ab Iarddur.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Iarddur 2), and given by Carr (1990, p. 2; 2011, p. 268), and by Roberts.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Gwilym ap Gruffudd ap Heilin. Married about 1340.

This relationship is given by Roberts and by Carr (1990, p. 2; 2011, p. 268). Bartrum (Iarddur 2; Marchudd 5) has Efa as Gwilym’s mother rather than wife, but Roberts states that traditional pedigrees had Efa in the wrong generation.

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.)

Gruffudd (died 1405) married Generys ferch Madog ap Gronwy Fychan.

Bleddyn married Gwenllian ferch Ieuaf.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Iarddur 2” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Efa are: Peniarth 131 (93) (which doesn’t name her), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 129 (62), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and a few sources which name her Angharad.]

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.).

Roberts, Glyn “GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN (Caerns.)” in Welsh Biography Online.