Morfudd ferch Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum (Hwfa 3) gives Morfudd a number of 11 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of, very roughly, about 1370. If the petition cited below is from the Morfudd of this page, then this estimate must be very wrong.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd ap Cynwrig.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Hwfa 3).

Mother: uncertain.

Bartrum (Hwfa 3) notes that one source gives her mother as Angharad ferch Gruffudd, and another as Nest ferch Ieuan.

Spouse: Ieuan ap Hywel ap Cynwrig.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Hwfa 3; Carwed 2). It is given by Carr (p. 269).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Bartrum.)

Gwilym.

Mallt married Ieuan ap Deian.

Dafydd married Angharad ferch Gwilym.

Evidence

Rees [p. 131] gives an abstract of a Chancery petition:

No. 4439 c. 1305

Morvyth, Widow of Ieuan ab Howel of Eifonydd, to the King and Counicl:

A plea of debt lies between Morfydd for her husband, a Welsh free tenant of the Commote of Eyfyonyth (Co. Caern.) and John Colyer of Hardelech (Harlech), an Englishman, wherefore she prays the King that he will order his Justice to make inquisition, one half of the court to be English and the other half Welsh (Not dated)

(French) (MS defective)

Endorsed: Let the Justice be ordered that if the custom of the country allows of it, that he do it. (French)

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Hwfa 3” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Morfudd are: Peniarth 131 (101), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 129 (63, 103, 119), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 127 (118, 155), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523.]

Carr, A.D. Medieval Anglesey. (Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 2011 2nd ed.).

Rees, William ed. Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Century) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1975).