Gwenllian ferch Ithel Fychan

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

(possible) Father: Ithel Fychan ab Ithel Llwyd.

This relationship is given by Carr (2003, p. 61), who states that it makes more chronological sense than the relationship given by Bartrum below. This Ithel Fychan is the nephew of the Ithel Fychan below.

Mother: uncertain.

Bartrum (Edwin 14) shows Margaret, daughter of Sir Hugh Brickill, but (2003, p. 61) states, "There is no firm evidence to identify Ithel's wife..."

(possible) Father: Ithel Fychan ab Ithel Gam.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 14). This Ithel Fychan is a brother of the Ithel Llwyd above.

(possible) Mother: Adles ferch Richard.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 14).

Spouse: Madog ap Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd Maelor.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 14; Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4), and given by Lloyd (p. 13), and by Bollard (p. 426).

Spouse: Iorwerth ap Dafydd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 14; Sandde Hardd 4).

Children (by Madog):

(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 married (1) Elizabeth le Strange; married (2) Lleucu ferch Deio.

Children (by Iorwerth):

Iorwerth Fychan married Lleucu ferch Maredudd Llwyd ap Maredudd ap Rhys Goch.

Gwenllian married Madog ab Ednyfed Goch.

Mallt married Iorwerth ap Hwyel.

Ieuan married Margred ferch Dafydd.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Edwin 14” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources Bartrum cites for Gwenllian’s marriage to Madog are: Rhandiroedd Powys (7), a MS written by 1493; Peniarth 129 (66, 100), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 134 (48) by Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564). Several other sources make her the daughter of Ithel Fychan ferch Ithel Llwyd. The sources Bartrum cites for Gwenllian’s marriage to Iorwerth are: Peniarth 129 (79), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain (which doesn’t name her); and Peniarth 135 (117) by Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564), which doesn’t name her. Several other sources make her the daughter of Ithel Fychan ferch Ithel Llwyd.]

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.

Carr, A.D. “Lineage, Power, and Land in Medieval Flintshire” in Flintshire Historical Society Journal Vol. 36 (2003), pp. 59-81.

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).