Madog Gloddaith ap Madog Fychan ap Madog

Rhaglaw of Creuddyn (1318, 1350-1352)

Deputy Sherriff of Caernarvonshire (and in 1324-25 acting sheriff)

Madog is said to have been remarkably ugly.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum gives him a generation number of 9 in his dating scheme, implying a birth date in about, very roughly, 1300.

Living: 1298, 1358.

This dates are given by Carr (1979, pp. 145-6).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Madog Fychan ap Madog ab Iorwerth Goch.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Mabon Glochydd 1). The line continues: Iorwerth Goch ap Madog ap Mabon Glochydd of Gloddaith ap Gwenfawr ap Gwynfryw ap Pigyn. The relationship is also given by Carr (1979, p. 146), who cites a deed of 1298 in which Madog Fychan ap Madog ab Iorwerth Goch of Creuddyn granted lands in Creuddyn and Porthaethwy to his son Madog. Madog ab Iorwerth Goch was rhaglaw of Dinorben in 1240-45, 1266-68, and 1268-1275 (Stephenson p. 120).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Morfudd (Teili) ferch Gruffudd Llwyd ap Rhys.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Mabon Glochydd 2). It is given by Carr (1979, p. 146).

Children:

Mallt married Dafydd ab Iorwerth.

Madog Fychan (living 1341).

Gruffudd married Gwenllian ferch Cynwrig Sais.

Efa married Madog ab Ieuaf.

A daughter married Picrin Eryr.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Mabon Glochydd 2” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources that Bartrum cites for Madog Gloddaith are: Peniarth 138 by Thomas ap Llywelyn ab Ithel of Bodfard, written about 1562; and Peniarth 133 (29), Peniarth 176 (139), Peniarth 177 (296), and Peniarth 134 (118) - MSS by Gruffudd Hiraethog (d. 1564).]

Carr, Antony David. The Mostyn Family and Estate, 1200-1643 (PhD thesis, University of Wales, 1975).

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.

Stephenson, David. The Governance of Gwynedd. (University of Wales, 1984).