Morwyl ferch Ednywain Bendew
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Bartrum gives Morwyl a number of 2 in his generational dating system, which implies a birth date of, very roughly, about 1070.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Ednywain Bendew ap Neiniad ap Gwaethfoed.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Ednywain Bendew 1). Ednywain is given a long ancestry: Ednywain Bendew ap Neiniad ap Gwaethfoed ap Gwrydr Hîr ap Caradog ap Lles Llawddeog ap Ceidio ap Corf ap Caenog ap Tegonwy ap Teon ab Gwineu Deufreuddwyd ap Bywyr Lew ap Bywdeg ap Rhun ap Llary ap Casnar Wledig.
Mother: unknown.
Bartrum doesn’t give a mother. Other sources give Gwerful ferch Lluddica ap Tudur Trefor.
Spouse: Owain ab Edwin.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Edwin 1; Ednywain Bendew 1).
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. Baldwin notes that Morwyl is explicitly said in Bartrum’s source, Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru, to be the mother of Gronwy, but it is not certain she is the mother of the other children.)
Llywarch (died 1118).
Meilir (died 1125).
Angharad (died 1162) married Gruffudd ap Cynan.
Gronwy (died 1125) married Genilles ferch Hoedlyw.
Cynwrig (died 1139). (Bartrum has a question mark by this relationship.)
Einion (died 1132).
Rhirid (died 1125).
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Edwin 1” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The source that Bartrum cites for Morwyl is his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.]
Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).
The source Bartrum gives for Morwyl is:
Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru.
2d. “Mam Oronw ap Ywain: Morwyl verch Ydnywain bendew ap Neiniad ap Gwaithuoed ap Gwrydr.”
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):
12.2.2 Mam Oronwy ap Ywein: <Morwyl> ferch Ednywain Bendew ap Neinat ap Gweithfoed ap Gwrydyr.