Gronwy ab Ednyfed Fychan ap Cynwrig

Seneschal of Gwynedd

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum (Marchudd 11) gives Gronwy a number of 6 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of, very roughly, about 1200.

Date of Death: 17 October 1268.

Place of Death: unknown.

Roberts gives 1268. The death is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1268: “In the ensuing year died Gronowy, son of Ednyved, steward of the prince’s household, on the eve of St Luke the Evangelist, a man illustrious in arms, and generous in gifts, wise in council, and upright in deed, and humorous in words…”

Relationships

Father: Ednyfed Fychan ap Cynwrig ab Iorwerth.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 11), and given by Roberts (1969, p. 183), and by Carr (1990, p. 2).

Mother: Gwenllian ferch Rhys ap Gruffudd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 11).

Spouse: Morfudd ferch Meurig of Gwent.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 11). Bartrum expresses some doubt about her identity.

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.)

Gwilym.

Tudur (died 1311) married Angharad ferch Ithel Fychan.

Adles married Gronwy ap Maredudd.

Gronwy Fychan married Generys ferch Hwfa.

References

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

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Gronwy are: Brut y Tywysogion; Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys (2b); Peniarth 131 (19, 43), written early in the reign of Henry VIII; Peniarth 127 (167), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; and Peniarth 176 (185) by Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564).]

Carr, Antony David. The Mostyn Family and Estate, 1200-1643 (PhD thesis, University of Wales, 1975).

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. “Ednyfed Fychan” 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).

Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).