Maelgwn Fychan ap Maelgwn Hên ap Rhys

(also known as Maelgwn Ieuanc)

Lord of Southern Ceredigion

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1257.

This date is given by Smith (ODNB). It is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1257.

Place of Burial: Strata Florida

The place is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1257.

Relationships

Father: Maelgwn Hen ap yr Arglwydd Rhys (died about 1231).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Rhys ap Tewdwr 4), and given by Pryce (Acts Table 3), and by Smith (ODNB). It is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1231 and in Annales Cambriæ s.a. 1236. Bridgeman (p. 134) cites a charter which records the relationship.

(supposed) Mother: Gwenllian ferch Madog ap Maredudd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Rhys ap Tewdwr 4). She was Maelgwn Hên’s step-mother. Bartrum doesn’t explicitly make her the mother of Maelgwn Fychan.

Spouse: Angharad ferch Llywelyn Fawr ab Iorwerth.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Rhys ap Tewdwr 4, Gruffudd ap Cynan 4). The sources for Angharad are mostly later genealogies, but a letter patent dated by Pryce (p. 202) to 1260 refers to an Angharard daughter of Llywelyn. Pryce states that this was "almost certainly the daughter of Llywleyn ap Iorwerth who married Maelgwn Fychan".

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Gwenllian (died 1254) married Maredudd ap Llywelyn.

Margred (died 1255) married Owain ap Maredudd.

Elinor married Maredudd ab Owain.

Elinor married Owain (ap Madog).

Rhys (died 1255).

Llywelyn (died 1230).

References

Bartrum, Peter C. (ed.), “Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys” in National Library of Wales journal XIV. pp. 97-104.

Bartrum, Peter C., “Rhys ap Tewdwr 4” and “Gruffudd ap Cynan 4” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources Bartrum cites for Maelgwn are Brut y Tywysogion; “Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys”; and Peniarth 131 (82, 121) -- a MS written about 1480 by Gutun Owain.]

Bridgeman, George T.O. History of the Princes of South Wales (Wigan: Thomas Birch, 1876).

Davies, James Conway (ed.). The Welsh Assize Roll, 1277-1284: Assize Roll, no. 1147 (Public Record Office), (University of Wales, 1940).

Dwnn, Lewys, and Samuel Rush Meyrick. Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the marches between the years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn. (Llandovery: William Rees, 1846).

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

Smith, J.B. “Gruffudd ap Rhys” in The 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. Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).