Gruffudd ap Madog ap Gruffudd Fychan

Also known as Gruffudd o’r Rhuddallt and Griffin de Glyndouerde.

Events

Date of Birth: 1298.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 5). Lloyd (p. 12) states that Gruffudd was 6 in 1304. An inquisition taken 14 January 1320/21 (CIPM 6:no 256) states that Gruffudd was aged 22 and more from the feast of St. Clement (23 November) last.

Living: 1343.

The date is given by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 5) and by Lloyd (p. 16).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Madog ap Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd Maelor.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4), and given by Davies (p. 130), and by Bollard (p. 426).

Mother: Gwenllian ferch Ithel Fychan.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4) and given by Bollard (p. 426).

Spouse: Elizabeth le Strange. Married 8 July 1304.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 5), and given by Lloyd (p. 12), by Davies (p. 140), and by Smith. The date is given by Lloyd (p. 12).

Spouse: Lleucu ferch Deio.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 5).

Children (by Elizabeth):

(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.)

Gruffudd Fychan married Elen ferch Thomas ap Llywelyn.

Isabel married Gronwy ap Gruffudd.

Children (mother uncertain):

Margred married Madog ap Llywelyn.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4”, “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 5” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources Bartrum cites for Gruffudd (as Gruffudd o’r Rhuddallt ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl are: Rhandiroedd Powys (7), a MS written by 1493; Peniarth 131 (179), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 129 (59), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 127 (29, 156), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523. The source Bartrum cites for Gruffudd (as Gruffudd Llwyd is: Peniarth 131 (126, 138), written by Gutun Owain about 1480 ]

Bartrum, Peter C. “Rhandiroedd Powys” in National Library of Wales journal, Volume 18, pp. 231-237 (1973). [Bartrum notes that it contains definite errors, but seems to have been regarded as authoritative by genealogists of the sixteenth century.]

Bollard, John K. “Owain Glyndŵr, Princeps Wallie” in Livingston, Michael, and John K. Bollard (eds.). Owain Glyndŵr: A Casebook (Liverpool University Press, 2013), pages 425-430.

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume VI. Edward II.(London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1910).

Davies, R.R. The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr. (Oxford U.P., 1995).

Livingston, Michael, and John K. Bollard (eds.). Owain Glyndŵr: A Casebook (Liverpool University Press, 2013).

Lloyd, J.E. Owen Glendower (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1931).

Smith, Llinos, ‘Glyn Dŵr , Owain (c.1359–c.1416)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10816, accessed 11 May 2014]