Owain ap Maredudd ab Owain

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 15 August 1275.

This date is given by Bridgeman (p. 233, p. 249), and in Brut y Tywysogion under the year 1275 (Williams pp. 362-363 -- the English translation calls the year, in error, 1255). Pryce (p. 205) gives 18 July 1275.

Date of Burial: 1275.

Place of Burial: Strata Florida.

The burial is given in Brut y Tywysogion under the year 1275 (Williams pp. 362-363 -- the English translation calls the year, in error, 1255): “In that year, on the fifteenth day of August, Owain, son of Maredudd, son of Owain, son of Gruffudd, son of the lord Rhys, died, and was buried at Strata Florida, in the chapter house of the monks, near his father.”

Relationships

Father: Maredudd ab Owain ap Gruffudd (died 1265).

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Rhys ap Tewdwr 6), and given by Bridgeman (p. 214), by Dwnn (2:54), by Pryce (Acts Table 3), and by R.R. Davies (p. 130). It is also given in Brut y Tywysogion, under the years 1273 and 1275.

Mother: a daughter of Thomas ap Rhodri.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Rhys ap Tewdwr 6). Bridgeman (p. 249) gives “Elena, daughter of Maelgon Vychan ap Maelgon ap Res.”

Spouse: Angharad ferch Owain.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Rhys ap Tewdwr 7, Trahaearn ap Caradog 6), and given by Bridgeman (p. 233, p. 249), and by the Welsh Assize Roll, 1277-1284 (p. 243). It is recorded in a grant in free marriage (Pryce no. 71). Smith (1982) discusses the dower arrangements.

Spouse: Gwladus ferch Owain.

This relationship is given by Bartrum (Rhys ap Tewdwr 7).

Children (by Angharad):

Llywelyn (died 1309).

Evidence

Pryce (nos. 70, 71) gives documents made by Owain.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Rhys ap Tewdwr 6”, “Rhys ap Tewdwr 7”, and “Trahaearn ap Caradog” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources Bartrum cites for Owain are: Brut y Tywygogion; Peniarth 131 (257, 292) -- a MS written about 1500 by Ieuan Brechfa; Peniarth 129 (20) -- a copy made about 1500 of a MS written about 1497 by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 137 (31) -- a MS written in the early 1500s by ‘Syr’ Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deiews.]

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).

Davies, R.R. The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr. (Oxford U.P., 1995).

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).

Oman, Sandra. “Owain ap Maredudd” in Tree: Wales. Welsh Medieval Database Primarily of Nobility and Gentry.

Pryce, Huw. The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005).

Smith, J. Beverley. “Dower in Thirteenth-Century Wales: a Grant of the Commote of Anhuniog, 1273” in The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 30 (ii) (University of Wales Press, 1982-3) pp. 348-355.

Smith, J.B. “Gruffudd ap Rhys” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Williams ab Ithel, John. Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).