Constable of Dolwyddelan castle (1284)
Rhaglaw of the cantref of Englefield (1301-2, 1302-4)
Gruffudd was described as being of the cantref of Dyffryn Clwyd in 1281. He acquired a quarter of the township of Carnychan in the commote of Prestatyn in 1288. (Carr 1990, p. 3).
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Bartrum (Iarddur 2) gives Gruffudd a number of 8 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of, very roughly, about 1270.
Date of Death: about 1310.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Roberts. Carr (1990, p. 3) states that Gruffudd was dead by 1311.
Relationships
Father: Tudur ap Madog ab Iarddur.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Iarddur 2), and given by Carr (1990, p. 2; 2011, p. 268), by Stephenson (p. 99), and by Roberts.
Mother: uncertain.
Bartrum (Iarddur 2) shows Morfudd ferch Rhys ap Maredudd ap Rhys o’r Deau, but attaches a question mark to the relationship.
Spouse: Margaret.
This relationship is given by Carr (1990, p. 3).
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.)
Efa married Gwilym ap Gruffudd.
Hen Wilym of Penhwnllys (died about 1375) married Gwenllian ferch Madog ap Gruffudd.
Madog.
Evidence
From the C. Inq. Misc. (Vol. I: no. 1468):
Inquisition before Sir W. de Grandissono and R. de Staundone.
Carnarvon. Monday after St. Barnabas 17 Edward I. [1289.]
Griffith, son of Tuder, and his brother have greater right in certain lands in Pennant Gwernogon by hereditary right after the death of Tuder son of Madoc, their father, and by his seisin, than Philip prior of Bethkellard, by reason of a grant of David ab Lewelyn, then prince of Wales.
C. Inq. Misc. File 48. (14.)
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Iarddur 2” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
[The sources that Bartrum cites for Gruffudd are: Peniarth 131 (93), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 129 (62), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 138 (340), written by Thomas ap Llywelyn ab Ithel of Bodfari about 1562; Peniarth 176 (155) by Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564); Peniarth 134 (241) by Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564).]
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office Vol. I (London, 1916).
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.
Carr, A.D. Medieval Anglesey. (Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 2011 2nd ed.).
Roberts, Glyn “GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN (Caerns.)” in Welsh Biography Online.
Stephenson, David. The Governance of Gwynedd. (University of Wales, 1984).