Emma de Aldithley

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 1282.

Place of Death: unknown.

Emma made a petition to the king and his council dated between 11 December 1282 and 1283. (Pryce no. 520)

Relationships

Father: Henry de Aldithley.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4), and given by Richards (p. 148), and by Carr.

Mother: Bertrea Mainwaring.

Bertred is named as the wife of Henry by the Complete Peerage (1:337).

(probable) Spouse: Henry Tuschet.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 148) and by Stephenson.

Spouse: Gruffudd Maelor ap Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4), and given by Richards (p. 148), by Cavell (p. 66), and by Carr. Smith discusses the dower arrangements.

Children (by Gruffudd):

(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.)

Madog (died 1277) married Margred ferch Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

Llywelyn.

Owain.

Roger.

Gruffudd (about 1230 - 1289) married Margred ferch Griffri.

Angharad married William, son of Ralph Butler of Wem in 1261.

Margaret married Sir John Arderne.

Evidence

Pryce (nos. 517 - 520) gives documents made by Emma.

Pryce (pp. 718 - 723) gives several grants and agreements which name Emma. For example:

A grant from between 1257 and 1269 in which “Griffinus filius Madoci dominus de Bromfeld “ gives his wife, named “Emme uxori mee legitime filie domini Henr(ici) de Audidele”, all his land in Maelor Saesneg.

Another grant from 1268 or 1269 in which “Griffinus filius Madoci dominus Bromfeld’” gives his wife, named “Emme uxori mee legitime filie domini Henr(ici) de Aldedeleg’” all of his manor of Eyton in Maelor Gymraeg.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

Carr, A.D. “Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor (d. 1236)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Cavell, Emma. "Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence: The Rees Davies Prize Essay" in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 17 (2007), pp. 57-82.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh Noblewomen in the Thirteenth Century: An Historical Study of Medieval Welsh Law and Gender Roles (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009).

Pryce, Huw (ed.) The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Malta, 2005).

Seebohm, Frederic. The Tribal System in Wales (Longmans, 1904).

Smith, J. Beverley. “Dower in Thirteenth-Century Wales: a Grant of the Commote of Anhuniog, 1273” in The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 30 (ii) (University of Wales Press, 1982-3) pp. 348-355.