Rhirid ab Iorwerth ap Madog

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Iorwerth ap Madog ab Ednywain Bendew.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Ednywain Bendew 1).

Mother: Arddun ferch Llywelyn.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Ednywain Bendew 1).

Spouse: a daughter of Sir Robert Pulford.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Ednywain Bendew 1) and given by Lloyd (3:101). Bartrum, in a pencilled note, gives her name as Tibod. Lloyd gives her name as Agnes. Bartrum states that Sir Robert Pulford was living in 1240. Dwnn (2:304) gives her as Nest ferch Gronwy ap Einion ap Seysyllt, who Oman states was in fact married to Rhirid’s son.

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.)

Tibod married Ithel Gam.

Iorwerth married Nest ferch Iorwerth; also married Morfydd ferch Gruffudd.

Robert Goch of Coedymynydd married Lleucu ferch Dafydd Fychan.

Einion.

Ieuan.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Ednywain Bendew 1” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources that Bartrum cites for Rhirid are: Peniarth 131 (130, 131, 138), written by Gutun Owain about 1480; Peniarth 131 (48), written early in the reign of Henry VIII; Peniarth 129 (58), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 127 (24), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523.]

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).

Lloyd, Jacob Youde William. The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fodog and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd. (London: T. Richards, 1881-1887).

Oman, Sandra. “Annes Pulford” in Tree: Wales. Welsh Medieval Database Primarily of Nobility and Gentry.