Maredudd ap Robert

Lord of Cedewain

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1244.

This date is given by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog). It is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a.1244: “That year died Maredudd, son of Robert, the chief counsellor of Wales, after taking the religious habit at Strata Florida.” It is also recorded in Annales Cambriæ s.a. 1244.

Relationships

Father: Robert [ab Robert (?)]

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog). He posits an additional Robert here, to account for the Owain ap Maredudd ap Robert of Cedewain who died in 1236 as well as Maredudd’s son with the same name who died in 1261.

Mother: uncertain.

Spouse: Juliana de Lacy. Probably married between 1205 and 1220.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog) and given by Pryce, who estimates the dates (p. 6). Juliana is mentioned in a 1252 letter close of Henry III. Pryce (p. 158) suggests that she may have been a daughter of Walter de Lacy (d. 1241), lord of Ewias Lacy and Weobley (Herefordshire) and Stanton Lacy, Ludlow, and Child's Ercall (Shropshire). Juliana later (by 1252) married Maredudd Sais.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Bartrum. Some sources assign the first Alswn and Dyddgu to another family. Gruffudd and Hwyel are named in a grant to Llanllugan Nunnery (Pryce no. 18).)

Owain (died 1261) married Margred ferch Maelgwn Fychan.

Gruffudd

Hywel

Dyddgu married Trahaearn ab Iorwerth.

Alswn married Einion ap Cynfelyn ap Dolffyn.

Alswn married Llywelyn ap Meilir Gryg.

Evidence

Pryce (nos. 14 - 21) gives various charters and letters patent made by Maredudd.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Trahaearn ap Caradog” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources Bartrum cites for Maredudd are: Brut y Tywysogion; Peniarth 131 (126) -- a MS written about 1480 by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 129 (66 ) -- a copy made about 1500 of a MS written about 1497 by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 137 (32 ) -- a MS written in the early 1500s by ‘Syr’ Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deiews]

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

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):

33. Gwehelieth Arwystli:

32.2 Maredyd m. Rotbert <ab Llywarch> m. Trahayarn m. Karadawg.

32.2.1 Dydgu ferch Madawg ap <Idnerth> y fam.

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).

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).