Generys ferch Madog ap Gronwy Fychan

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum (Marchudd 11) gives Generys a number of 10 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of, very roughly, about 1330.

Living: 1352.

The date is given by Bartrum (Marchudd 11), citing the Record of Caernarvon (69).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Madog ap Gronwy Fychan ap Gronwy.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 11), and given by Carr (p. 2; p. 5), and by Roberts (WBO; 1969, p. 274).

Mother: Margred ferch Robert ab Iorwerth.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 11).

Spouse: Ieuaf ab Adda.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 11).

Spouse: Gruffudd ap Gwilym ap Gruffudd. Married about 1360.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 11; Marchudd 6), and given by Carr (p. 2; p. 5), and by Roberts (WBO; 1969, p. 274).

Children (by Ieuaf):

(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.)

Gwenllian married Bleddyn ap Gwilym.

Children (by Gruffudd):

Gwilym of Penrhyn (died 1431) married (1) Morfudd ferch Gronwy; married (2) Jonet, daughter of Sir William Stanley of Hooton.

Angharad married Robin ap Rhys.

Rhys o’r Nant married Margaret ferch Rhys Gethin.

Jonet married Rhys ab Ieuan Llwyd.

Elen married Morgan ab Iorwerth Fychan.

Robin of Cochwillan married (1) Angharad ferch Rhys; married (2) Lowri ferch Gronwy.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Marchudd 11” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Generys’s marriage to Ieuaf are: Peniarth 129 (116), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 127 (130), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; Peniarth 128 (610a), “Llyfr Edward ap Roger”, written before 1582; and Peniarth 287 (582), by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (died 1667), which calls her Generys Fechan. The sources that Bartrum cites for Generys’s marriage to Gruffudd are: Peniarth 131 (93, 104), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 129 (62, 117), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 127 (53), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523.]

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.

Roberts, Glyn “GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN (Caerns.)” 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).