Events
Date of Birth: about 960.
This estimated date is given by Bartrum (EVWG Early Series [41]).
Date of Death: 996.
The date is given by Bartrum (EVWG Early Series [41]). Annales Cambriæ has s.a. 997: “Idwal filius Meuruc occisus est.” Brut y Tywysogion has s.a. 995: “Ac [blwydyn wedy hynny] y llas Idwal uab Meuruc.”
Relationships
Father: Meurig ab Idwal Foel ab Anarawd.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Early Series [41]), and given by Maund (pp. 57-58), and by Thornton (ODNB).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
Iago (about 990 - 1039).
References
Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).
The sources Bartrum gives for Meurig include:
Hanes Gruffudd ap Cynan -- the biography is probably from the 1170s, but Bartrum believes the pedigrees may be later (1200s).
1. “...Yago m. Idwal (m. Elissed) m. Meuryc mab Idwal foel m. Anaraut m. Rodri….”
Mostyn MS. 117. -- a MS from the late 1200s.
1. “...Gruffyd m. Kynan m. Iago m [Idwal m. Meuric m.] Idwal voel m. Anarawt m. Rodri m. Meruyn vrych, gwr priawt Esyllt verch Kynan Tindaethwy…”
Jesus College MS. 20 -- (dated to the first part of the 14th century):
26. “Gruffud m. Kynan m. Iago m. Idwal m. Meuric m. Itwal voel m. Anarawt mab Rodri mawr.”
Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru (probably based on 15th century MSS):
1. “...Owain Gwynedd m. Gruffudd m. Kynan m. Iago m. Idwal m. Meirig m. Idwal voel m. Anarawd m. Rodri mawr…”
7. “Idwal m. Meurig, oddyna Iago mab Idwal, oddyna Kynan mab Iago tad Gruffudd mab Kynan.”
Brut y Tywysogion 19.
Bartrum, Peter C., “Early Series [41]” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
The source Bartrum cites for Meurig is his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.
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):
11.1 Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ap Ywein ap Gruffyd ap Kynan ap Iago ap Idwal ap Meurig ap Idwall Foel ap Anarawt ap Rodri Mawr ap Essyllt ferch Kynan Dyndaethwy …[back to Adam]
Jones, Arthur (ed.) The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan. (Manchester U.P., 1910).
Maund, K.L. Ireland, Wales, and England in the Eleventh Century (The Boydell Press, 1991).
Thornton, David E. “Idwal ap Meurig (d. 996/7)” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Annales Cambriæ (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).