Gwenllian ferch Ednyfed

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 38) gives Gwenllian number of 5 in his generational dating system, which implies a birth date of, very roughly, about 1170.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Ednyfed (ap Cynwrig).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 38). Pierce states that Rhirid is said to have married “Gwenllian, daughter of Ednyfed ap Rhiwallon of Brochdyn or Broughton”.

Mother: Gwladus ferch Aldud.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 38).

Spouse: Rhirid Flaidd ap Gwrgeneu ap Gollwyn.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 38).

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.)

Gwenllian married Gruffudd ab Iorwerth.

Madog married Efa ferch Philip Ddu.

Einion (died 1263).

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Tudur Trefor 38” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The source that Bartrum cites for Gwenllian is his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.]

Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).

The sources Bartrum gives for Rhirid include:

Hen Lwythau Gwynedd a’r Mars.

13d. “Madoc ap Rririd vlaidd. I vam oedd Wenllian verch Ednyfed ap Kynwric ap Rriwallon o Vaelor.

13e. “Mam Wenllian oedd Wladus verch Aldud ap Ywain ap Edwin.”

Guy, Ben. Medieval Welsh Genealogy. (The Boydell Press, 2020).

From Guy’s critical edition of the Llywelyn ab Iorwerth genealogies, which were based on an archetype created no later than the first half of the fourteenth century from an original compilation dating to the early thirteenth century, partly based on earlier written sources (Note that Guy is striving for textual rather than genealogical accuracy):

58.2 Madoc ap Rririd vlaidd: i vam oedd Wenllian verch Ednyved ap Kywric ap Rriwallon o vaelor.

58.2.1 Mam Wenllian oedd Wladvs verch Aldud ap Ywain ap Edwin vrenin.

Pierce, Thomas Jones. “Rhirid Flaidd” in Welsh Biography Online.