Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Bartrum gives Gwladus a number of 8 in his generational dating system, which implies a birth date of, very roughly, about 1270.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Place of Burial: Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales.
The place is given by Lloyd (1:315).
Relationships
Father: Iorwerth ap Griffri ap Heilin.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Mael Maelinydd 1) and given by Carr (p. 11).
Mother: uncertain.
Bartrum (Mael Maelinydd 1) notes that some sources give Tangwystl ferch Gruffudd ap Ednyfed Chwith and some sources give Alice ferch Hwfa.
Spouse: Iorwerth Foel ab Iorwerth Fychan ab yr Hên Iorwerth.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Tudur Trefor 12, Mael Maelienydd 1), and given by Mostyn (p. 21), Dwnn (3:308), Lloyd (1:315) and Carr (p. 11). It is also given by the 1623 Visitation of Shropshire (p. 261). Lloyd cites Gwladus’s monument in Hanmer Church (“Hic iacet wladys vxor ierwerth voyl. Orate. p. ea.”)
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. The information below comes from Bartrum, Mostyn, Dwnn and Carr (p. 12). Sources disagree about the birth order. The birth order below is from Mostyn. Bartrum has: 1 Gruffudd, 2 Morgan, 3, Madog Llwyd, 4 Ednyfed Gam.)
Ednyfed Gam married Gwladus ferch Llywelyn ab Madog.
Morgan.
Gruffudd of Maelor Saesneg. In Hanmer church, there was formerly a slab inscribed “Hic iacet Griffith ap Iorwerth Voel. Orate p.e.a.” (Mostyn p. 21)
Rhys.
Ieuan. Ieuan was a juror at Roger de Mortimer’s 1332 IPM . (Mostyn p. 21)
Madog Llwyd. Mostyn (p. 21) notes that Harl. MS. 4181 wrongly calls Madog the eldest son, noting that he added a bordure gules to his paternal arms.
Maredudd. (Maredudd is given by Bartrum, citing Peniarth 131 (124), a MS written about 1480 by Gutun Owain. Maredudd is not given by Mostyn, Dwnn, or Lloyd.)
Iorwerth Fychan
Adda
Llywelyn
Hywel
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Mael Maelienydd 1” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
[The sources Bartrum cites for Gwladus are: Peniarth 131 (124, 127), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 129 (67, 90), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 127 (183, 196), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523.]
Carr, Antony David. The Mostyn Family and Estate, 1200-1643 (PhD thesis, University of Wales, 1975).
Dwnn, Lewys, and Samuel Rush Meyrick. Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the marches between the years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn. (Llandovery: William Rees, 1846).
Lloyd, Jacob Youde William. The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fodog and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd. (London: T. Richards, 1881-1887).
Mostyn, the Right Hon. Lord, and T. A. Glenn. History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (London: Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1925).
Treswell, Robert. The Visitation of Shropshire taken in the Year 1623 (London, 1889).