Coroner of Englefield (1379)
Joint farmer of the office of steward of the manor of Mostyn (1387)
Farmer of the borough of Caerwys (1388-1396)
Sheriff of Flintshire (1390)
Rhaglaw (1390)
R. R. Davies (ROGD, pp. 50-51) describes Hywel as the wealthiest landowner in Flintshire by far and one of the most powerful men in north-east Wales in the 1390s. He supported Owain Glyn Dŵr in 1403.
Carr (1979, pp. 144-145; 2003, pp. 69 ff) discusses Hywel's role in a number of incidents which demonstrate the decline of law and order in North Wales in the late 1300s. For example, in 1391, Hywel led a band of 460 archers from all over North Wales in an attack on his cousin, Dafydd ap Maruret ferch Cynwrig (Dafydd Whitemore). Dafydd later appears as Hywel's ally.
Events
Date of Birth: about 1335, or maybe earlier.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Glenn (p. 145).
Date of Death: after 1407.
Place of Death: unknown.
Davies (1968, p. 157) states that "...the last we hear of Hywel ap Tudur, the proud squire of Mostyn, is of of his travelling from Flint to Chester with a servant and two horses in December 1407 'to speak with the Prince's council' as the record euphemistically puts it, 'to help them in their inquiries' as our modern lawkeepers would say. It may well have been a journey from which he never returned." However, Carr (1979, p. 149) picks up the story: "He [Hywel] failed to appear at the subsequent sessions or to pay his fine but on 8 March 1409 Ithel made fine of twenty pounds for the lands of his father, described as 'outlaw' and of his mother Leucu, daughter of Rhys ap Roppert; a pardon was granted to him on 4 November 1409."
Relationships
Father: Tudur ab Ithel Fychan ab Ithel Llwyd.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 14). It is given by Carr (1979, p. 139; 2003, p. 69), by Glenn (p. 142), and by Davies (DWB).
Mother: Erddylad ferch Madog ap Llywelyn.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 14). It is given by Carr (2003, p. 62), and by Glenn (p. 142).
Spouse: Lleucu Llwyd ferch Rhys ap Robert.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 14). It is given by Carr (2003, p. 62, p. 74), and by Glenn (p. 143). Carr (1979, p. 149) gives Lleucu as the mother of Hywel's son Ithel.
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.)
Erddylad married Madog ap Llywelyn.
Angharad married (1) Edmund Stanley; married (2) Ieuan Fychan.
Ithel (died by 1419) married Margaret.
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Edwin 14” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
[The sources Bartrum cites for Hywel are: Peniarth 129 (103, 115), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 127 (123, 129), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; and Peniarth 128 (602b), “Llyfr Edward ap Roger”, written before 1582.]
Carr, Antony David. The Mostyn Family and Estate, 1200-1643 (PhD thesis, University of Wales, 1975).
Carr, A.D. “Lineage, Power, and Land in Medieval Flintshire” in Flintshire Historical Society Journal Vol. 36 (2003), pp. 59-81.
Carr, A.D. “The Making of the Mostyns: the Genesis of a Landed Family” in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1979), pp. 137-157.
Davies, Sir William Llewelyn. “Mostyn Family, Mostyn Hall” in Welsh Biography Online.
Davies, R. Rees. “Owain Glyn Dŵr and the Welsh Squirearchy” in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Session 1968 part II.
Davies, R.R. The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr. (Oxford U.P., 1995).
Glenn, Thomas Allen. “Ithel Vychan of Halkyn, and Some of his Descendants” in Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol. LXXVII. Seventh series, Vol. II. (London, 1922) pp. 135-146.