Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 929.
This date is given by Bartrum (EVWG, [20]).The death is recorded by Annales Cambriæ (Williams p. 17) under the year 928 and by Brut y Tywysogion (Williams pp. 20-21) under the year 926.
Relationships
Father: Llywarch ap Hyfaidd ap Bleiddig (died 904).
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG, [20]) and given by Lloyd (1:333).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Hywel Dda ap Cadell ap Rhodri Mawr.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG, [20], [42]).
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.)
Owain (about 900 - 988).
Rhain.
Edwin (died 954).
Einion.
Angharad married Tudur Trefor.
Rhodri (died 953).
References
Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).
The sources Bartrum gives for Elen are:
Harleian MS. 3859 -- dated to the reign of Owain ap Hywel Dda:
2. “[O]uein map Elen merc Ioumarc map Himeyt map Tancoyslt merc Ouein map Margetiut map Teudos map Regin map Catgocaun map Cathen map Cloten map Nougoy map Arthur map Petr map Cincar map Guortepir map Aircol map Triphun (map) Clotri map Gloitguin map Nimet map Dimet map Maxim gulecic (map) Protec (map) Protector (map) Ebiud map Eliud (map) Stater (map) Pincr misser map Constans map Constantini et Helen luicdauc que de Britannia exiunt ad crucem Christi querendam usque ad Ierusalem, et inde attulit secum usque ad Constantinopolin, et est ibi usque in hodiernum diem”;
Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru -- probably compiled in the early 1400s:
18a. “Iwein ap Elen ferch Llywarch ap Hyfeidd ap Tangwystyl ferch Ewein ap Maredudd ap Tewdos [ap Rhain] ap Kadwgon ap Kathen ap Gwlyddian ap Nowy ap Arthur ap Pedyr ap Kyngar ap Gwerthefyr ap Erbin ap Aergul (ap) Llawir ap Tryffin ap Ewein ap Gwledyr ferch Gletwin ap Nyfedd ap Dyved ap Ebynt ap Elynt ap Amloyd ap Amweryd ap Kustennin ap Maxen wledig”;
Annales Cambriæ (B) (928);
Brut y Tywysogion (13).
Bartrum, Peter C.,“[20], [42]” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The source Bartrum cites for Elen is his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.]
Guy, Ben. Medieval Welsh Genealogy. (The Boydell Press, 2020).
From Guy’s attempted recreation of the St David’s recension of the Gwynedd collection of genealogies as it might have existed in the tenth century, based on the Harleian genealogies:
2. [O]uein map [H]elen merc [L]oumarc map Himeyt map Tancoys[tl] merc Ouein map Margetiut map Teudos map Regin map Catgocaun map Cathen map Cloten map Nougoy map Arthur map Petr map Cincar map Gourtepir map Aircol map Triphun map Clotri map Gloitguin map Nimet map Dimet map Maxim Gule[t]ic map Protec map Protector map Ebiud map Eliud map Stater map Pincr Misser map Constans map Constantini magni map Constantii et Helen Lui[t]dauc, que de Brittania exuit ad crucem Christi querendam usque ad Ierusalem, et inde attulit secum usque ad Constantinopolin, et est ibi usque in hodiernum diem.
Lloyd, John Edward, A History of Wales. 2 volumes (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911-1912).
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Annales Cambriæ (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).