Maredudd ap Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4) gives Maredudd a number of 6 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of, very roughly, about 1200.

Date of Death: 1256.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4). It is recorded in Annales Cambriæ s.a. 1256.

Relationships

Father: Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor ap Madog.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4).

Mother: Iseult.

A 1222 grant by Madog to Valle Crucis Abbey was made with the consent of “domine I. uxoris mee”. A (spurious) grant to Combermere Abbey from the mid-1200s by Gruffudd Maelor was made for the health of “matris mei Iseude”. A 1270 grant and confirmation made by the sons of the younger Gruffudd Maelor mentions “domine Emme matris nostre”, “dominus Griffin(us) pater noster”, and “domina Ysota avia nostra”. (Pryce, nos 506, 510, 526)

Spouse: Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fawr.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4).

Children:

Angharad married Llywelyn ap Griffri.

Evidence

Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1238 states that Maredudd slew his brother, Llywelyn. (Carr states that it was Gruffudd Iȃl that he slew.)

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Maredudd are: Rhandiroedd Powys (4), a MS written by 1493; Peniarth 131 (46), written early in the reign of Henry VIII; Peniarth 129 (75, 79), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 127 (26), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523; and Brut y Tywysogion.]

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.]

Carr, A.D. “Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor (d. 1236)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Pryce, Huw (ed.) The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Malta, 2005).

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).