Llywelyn ap Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn

Custodian of Dolforwyn castle and Cydewain, 1279

Llywelyn held Mochnant-uwch-Rhaedr, Mechain-uwchcoed (with Greenhall) and four vills, from 1291. He served with his uncle Roger l'Estrange as a messenger to the papal court. (Morgan, p. 6)

Events

Date of Birth: perhaps about 1264.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is suggested by Morgan (p. 6). Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30) gives Llywelyn a number of 7 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of, very roughly, about 1230.

Date of Death: 1294.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30) and by Morgan (p. 8).

Relationships

Father: Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn ab Owain Cyfeiliog.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30), and given by Morgan, and by Stephenson.

Mother: Hawise le Strange.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30), and given by Morgan (p. 10), and by Stephenson. A document of 1 March 1270/1 records a grant by Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn of lands to his son Llywelyn in Buttington, Hope, Orleton (Trewern), Deuddwr, and vills in Caereinion, if he should survive him and Hawise (Stephenson, p. 169).

Spouse: Margred ferch Maredudd Gôch ap Maredudd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 26; Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30).

Spouse: Sibyl, widow of Grimbold Pauncefot.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30) and given by Stephenson.

Children (by Margred):

(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.)

Efa married Madog o’r Hendwr.

Catrin married Gilbert Pool.

Evidence

Inquisitions taken following Llywelyn's death (CIPM 3, nos. 211 and 212).

Pryce (nos. 602 and 604) records grants from Gruffudd to Llywelyn. Pryce (no. 610) is one of Llywelyn's grants.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Llywelyn are: “Rhandiroedd Powys” (13), a MS written by 1493; Peniarth 129 (44), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 127 (32, 71), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; and Peniarth 128 (149b, 792a, 823a), “Llyfr Edward ap Roger”, written before 1582. ]

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.]

Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office 3 (1912).

Morgan, R. “The Barony of Powys, 1275-1360” in The Welsh History Review 10 (1980).

Pryce, Huw. The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)

Stephenson, David. Medieval Powys: Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132-1293. (The Boydell Press, 2016).