Margred ferch Maelgwn Fychan

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 25 September 1255.

The date is given by Bridgeman (p. 129). It is recorded in Annales Cambriæ s.a. 1255: “Non multum vero post, scilicet Sabbato proximo ante festum Sancte Michaelis, obiit Margeria tunc filia Maelgonis uxor Owini filii Mareduth de Kedevyn, quæ apud Stratam Floridam juxta fratrem suum tradita fuit sepulturæ.” It is also recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1254.

Place of Burial: Strata Florida.

Relationships

Father: Maelgwn Fychan ap Maelgwn Hên ap Rhys (died 1257).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog 6), and given by Bridgeman (p. 129). It is recorded in Annales Cambriæ s.a. 1255 and in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1254.

Mother: Angharad ferch Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog).

Spouse: Owain ap Maredudd ap Robert (died 1261).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog 6), and given by Bridgeman (p. 129). It is recorded in Annales Cambriæ s.a. 1255 and in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1254 (where Owain is misleadingly called “ab Rotbert”).

Children:

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

Angharad married (1) Owain ap Maredudd; married (2) Sir Walter de Pedwarden.

Jonet married Einion ab Ieuaf.

Iorwerth.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Rhys ap Tewdwr 4” and “Trahaearn ap Caradog 6” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The source Bartrum cites for Margred is Brut y Tywysogion.]

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).

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).