Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Bartrum gives Hywel a number of 5 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of , very roughly, about 1170.
Floruit: 1185 - 1198.
The dates are given by Pryce (no. 8), who gives the text of an 1198 grant by "Howel filius Howeli" to Strata Marcella Abbey.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Hywel ab Ieuaf ab Owain.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Trahaearn ap Caradog 4).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
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.)
Tanw married Maredudd ap Rhirid.
Gwenhwyfar married Cadwgon Seithydd.
Dafydd Goch married Perwyr ferch Maredudd.
Gwenllian married Ithel ap Rhys.
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Trahaearn ap Caradog 4” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
[The sources Bartrum cites for Hywel are: Plant y Arglwydd Rhys” (2b); Peniarth 131 (221), written by Ieuan Brechfa about 1500; Peniarth 127 (164), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; and Peniarth 128 (329a, 851b), “Llyfr Edward ap Roger”, written before 1582.]
Pryce, Huw (ed.) The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Malta, 2005).