King of Gwynedd
Events
Date of Birth: about 1100.
This estimated date is given by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
(probable) Date of Death: 23 November 1170.
The date is given by Pryce (ODNB). The death is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1169.
Relationships
Father: Gruffudd ap Cynan (died 1137).
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3), and given by Keats-Rohan (p. 1102), and by Pryce (ODNB).
Mother: Angharad ferch Owain ab Edwin.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3) and given by Pryce (ODNB).
Spouse: Gwladus ferch Llywarch.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3), and given by Keats-Rohan (p. 1102), and by Pryce (ODNB).
Spouse: Cristin ferch Gronwy.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3), and given by Keats-Rohan (p. 1102), and by Pryce (ODNB; 1998, p. 9).
Spouse: Angharad ferch Peredur.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
Spouse: Gwenllian ferch Ednywain.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
Spouse: Morfudd ferch Merwydd Hir.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
Spouse: Afandreg ferch Gwrgi of Penmynydd.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
Spouse: Anedd ferch Gwrgi of Penmynydd.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
Spouse: Ffynnod Wyddeles.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
Spouse: Morfudd ferch Elfan ap Sandde of Rhos.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Gruffudd ap Cynan 3).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Children (by Gwladus ferch Llywarch):
Maelgwn.
Iorwerth Drwyndwn (died about 1174) married Marared ferch Madog ap Maredudd.
Gwenllian married Owain Cyfeiliog.
Children (by Cristin ferch Gronwy):
Cadwallon.
Rhodri (died 1195) married (1) Gwenllian ferch yr Arglwydd Rhys in 1188; married (2) a daughter of Reginald, King of Man.
Angharad married Gruffudd Maelor.
Dafydd (died 27 May 1203) married Emma, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou.
Children (by Angharad ferch Peredur):
Cynan (died 1173) married Angharad ferch Genillin.
Children (by Gwenllian ferch Ednywain):
Llywelyn (died 1165).
Children (by Morfudd ferch Merwydd Hir):
Maredudd Ddu.
Children (by Afandreg ferch Gwrgi):
Idwal.
Children (by Anedd ferch Gwrgi):
Rhun (died 1146).
Children (by Ffynnod Wyddeles):
Hywel (died 1170).
Children (by Morfudd ferch Elfan):
Iago.
Philip.
Children (by an unknown mother):
Rhirid married a daughter of Iarll Desmond.
Gwenllian married Hwfa ap Cynwrig.
Madog.
Einion.
Cynwrig.
Cynwrig.
Cadell.
References
Baldwin, Stewart. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table. (Hosted at Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Accessed 18 May 2014).
Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).
The sources Bartrum gives for Owain include:
Mostyn MS. 117 -- dated to the last quarter of the 13th century
1. (“Llywelyn ap Gruffudd mab Llyweyln m. Ioruerth m. Owein m. Gruffuyd m. Kynan...”);
Jesus College MS. 20 -- dated to the last part of the 14th century
28. (“Llywelyn m. Iorwoerth m. Ewein Gwyned m. Gruffud m. Cynan.”
Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru,
1. (a) (“Llywelyn ap Iorwerth drwyndwn m. Owain Gwynedd m. Gruffudd m. Kynan…”)
2. Plant Ywein Gwynedd
(a) “Ioruerth a Maelgwn a Gwenlliant, mam Wenwynwyn ap Owain Kyveiliawg, plant Owain Gwynedd. Ai Mam oedd Wladus verch Lywarch ap Tryhaearn ap Kyradawc ap Gwyn ap Gollwyn ap Ydnywain ap Bleddynt…”
4. “Kunedda a Thangwystel, yr hon a vv yn planta o Gydwaladyr i hewyrth. Ywein ap Gruffudd a beris dallu Kunedda i nai ap i vrawd ac etwa y diarhebir “Is Konwy o ryfel Kunedda.”
5. Plant Gruffudd ap Kynan ap Iago ad Idwal ap Meurig
(a) “Ewein Gwynedd a Chatwaladyr a Chatwallawn a Ranillt a Gwenlliant a Marfredra a Sussanna ag Agnest. Angharat ferch Ywein ap Edwin eu mam.”
8 (g) “...I vam oedd Wenllian verch Ywain Gwynedd ap Gruffudd ap Kynan ap Iago…”
Brut y Tywysogion (109 f.)
Bartrum, Peter C., “Gruffudd ap Cynan 1” and “Gruffudd ap Cynan 3” 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.]
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):
11.1 Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ap Ywein ap Gruffyd ap Kynan ap Iago ap Idwal ap Meurig ap Idwall Foel ap Anarawt ap Rodri Mawr ap Essyllt ferch Kynan Dyndaethwy …[back to Adam]
12. Plant Ywain Gwyned:
12.1 Iorwerth a Maelgwn a Gwenlliant mam Wenwynwyn ap Ywain Kyfeiliawg, plant Ywain Gwyned, a Gwladus oed eu mam, ferch Llewarch ap Trehayarn ap Karadawg ap Gwynn ap Gollwyn ap Ednywain ap Bledynt ap Bledrus ap Kynawg Mawr ap Iorwerth Hirvlawt ap Tegonwy ap Teon
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.
12.3 Kynan ap Owain: Agharad oed y fam, ferch Peredur ap Mael ap Bledyn o Feirionyd.
12.4 Llywelyn ap Ywain: Gwenlliant ferch Ednywain ap Gwrydyr ap Dyfneint oed y fam.
12.5 Maredud <Ddu> fab Ewein: Morfud ferch <verwydd> Hir y fam.
12.6 Idwal mab Ywein: Afandreg ferch Wrgi o Benn Mynyd Gradifel y fam.
12.7 Run mab Ywein: Aned ferch Wrgi y fam, chwaer Afandreg.
12.8. Madawg ag Einyon, meibion Ywein, ag un fam oedynt.
12.9 <Hywel m. Yweyn: Ffynnot Wydeles oed y fam.>
12.10. Deu Kynwrik a vuant feibyon y Ywein.
12.11. Ffylip m. Ewein: Morfud ferch Elfan m. Sandef o Ros y fam.
12.12. <Ririd> mab Ewein, y gwr bieuvu Glochran, y dref a rodet y hen Ruffud ap Kynan, ysyd y rwng Dinas Dulyn a Swrth Kolomkelli.
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Maund, Kari. The Welsh Kings (Tempus, 2000).
Pryce, Huw. “Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Pryce, Huw. "Owain Gwynedd and Louis VII" in Welsh History Review Vol. 19, no. 1 (June 1998), pp. 1-28.
Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Annales Cambriæ (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).
Williams ab Ithel, John. Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).