Nest ferch Gruffudd ap Llywelyn

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Gruffudd ap Llywelyn ap Seissyl (died 1063).

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), Walker (ODNB), by Maund (p. 68), and by Bartrum (EVWG “Early Series [41]”). It is recorded in Gerald of Wales’s Itinerarium Kambriæ (6:28-29).

Mother: Ealdgyth, daughter of Ælfgar, earl of Mercia.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), Walker (ODNB), by Maund (p. 68), and by Bartrum (EVWG “Early Series [41]”).

Spouse: Osbern fitz Richard.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), Walker (ODNB), by Maund (p. 68), and by Bartrum (EVWG “Early Series [41]”). It is recorded in Gerald of Wales’s Itinerarium Kambriæ (6:28-29).

Children:

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

Hugh fitz Osbern married Eustachia de Say.

Thurstan.

Nest married Bernard de Neufmarché.

References

Bartrum, Peter C.,“Early Series [41]” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The source Bartrum gives is Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Kambriæ i.2.]

Cawley, Charles. “Nesta” in Medieval Lands.

Giraldus Cambrensis. Itinerarium Kambriæ, in Opera Volume 6 (James F. Dimock, ed.) (London, 1868).

Lewis, C.P. “Richard Scrob (fl. 1052-1066)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Lloyd, John Edward, A History of Wales. 2 volumes (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911-1912).

Maund, Kari. The Welsh Kings (Tempus, 2000).

Walker, David “Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).