Owain ab Edwin
Events
Date of Birth: about 1040.
This estimated date is given by Bartrum (“Edwin 1”).
Date of Death: 1105.
This date is given by Thornton (ODNB “Owain ab Edwin”). It is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion under the year 1102 (Williams pp. 76-77): “The ensuing year Owain, son of Edwin, died after a long illness.” In Annales Cambriæ the death is recorded under the year 1104 (Williams p. 33).
Relationships
Father: Edwin of Tegeingl.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (“Edwin 1”), and given by Davies, and by Thornton (ODNB “Owain ab Edwin”). Thornton calls him Edwin ap Gronw. Thornton notes that Edwin “is thought to be the Edwinus who held lands in Tegeingl and south-west Cheshire, both before 1066 and at the time of the Domesday survey, and was probably the most important Welshman at this time in Tegeingl. To this position Owain probably succeeded about 1090.”
Mother: Iwerydd ferch Cynfyn.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (“Edwin 1”), and given by Maund (p. 95), and by Thornton (ODNB “Owain ab Edwin”).
Spouse: Morwyl ferch Ednywain Bendew.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (“Edwin 1”) and given by Thornton (ODNB “Owain ab Edwin”).
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
Baldwin, Stewart. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table. (Hosted at Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Accessed 23 May 2014).
Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).
The sources Bartrum gives for Owain include:
Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru (probably based on 15th century MSS):
2.Plant Ywein Gwynedd
(b) “...Oronw ap Owain ap Edwyn …”
(e) “Mam Ywain ap Edwin: Iwerydd verch Gynvyn ap Gweristan.”
5. Plant Gruffudd ap Kynan ap Iago ap Idwal ap Meurig
(a) “Ewain Gwynnedd a Chatwaladyr a Chatwallawn a Ranillt a Gwenlliant a Marfreda a Sussan ag Agnest. Angharat ferch Ywein ap Edwin eu mam.”
Hen Lwythau Gwynedd A’r Mars
4. Llwyth Bran
(b) “Rhael ferch Oronw ap Ewein ap Edwin oedd fam Kadwgon a Iorwerth meibyon Llywarch ap Brân.”
13. Llwyth Penllyn
(e) “Mam Wenllian oedd Wladus verch Aldud ap Ywain ap Edwin.”
Brut y Tywysogion (36 f)
Bartrum, Peter C., “Edwin 1” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
The sources Bartrum cites for Owain are Brut y Tywysogion, and his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts and Pedigrees of the Welsh Tribal Patriarchs 36 (1).
Bartrum, Peter C., “Pedigrees of the Welsh Tribal Patriarchs” in National Library of Wales Journal Cyf.13, rh.2, p. 93-146. (Gaeaf 1963).
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 Plant Ywain Gwyned:
12.2 Dafyd a Rodri a C[h]atwallawn abad Enlli ag Angharat gwreig Gruffud Maelor, meibion Ywein Gwyned, Christin ferch Gronw ap Ywein ap Edwin eu mam.
12.2.2 Mam Oronwy ap Ywein: <Morwyl> ferch Ednywain Bendew ap Neinat ap Gweithfoed ap Gwrydyr.
Davies, Sir William Llewelyn "Edwin (died 1073), prince of Tegeingl" in Dictionary of Welsh Biography (1959).
Maund, K.L. Ireland, Wales, and England in the Eleventh Century (The Boydell Press, 1991).
Thornton, David E. “Owain ab Edwin (d. 1105)” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Annales Cambriæ (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).