Eginir ap Gollwyn ap Tangno
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Bartrum gives Eginir a number of 2 in his generational dating system, which implies a birth date of, very roughly, about 1070.
Living: 1094.
The date is given by Bartrum (Gollwyn 1).
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Gollwyn ap Tangno ap Cadfael.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gollwyn 1). It is given in the History of Gruffydd ap Cynan (p. 134).
Mother: Medlan Benllydan ferch Neiniad ap Gwaithfoed.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Gollwyn 1).
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Gollwyn 3” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The source that Bartrum cites for Eginir is 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 Eginir include:
Hen Lwythau Gwynedd a’r Mars
9a. “Merwydd ag Eginir, Gellan ag Ednyfet meibion Gollwyn ap Tangno ap Kadafael ap Lludd, a Medland penllydan ferch Neinuat, chwaer Ednywain bendew, eu mam.
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.”
GaC p. 134.
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):
56. Llwyth Kollwyn:
56.1 Merwyd ag Eginir ag Ednyfet, meibion Kollwyn ap <Tangno> ap Kadafael ap <Llvdd>, a Medland Penllydan ferch <Neiniad> eu mam.
Jones, Arthur (ed.) The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan. (Manchester U.P., 1910).