Rhys ap Gruffudd ap Madog Gloddaith

Rhaglaw of Creuddyn (1395-96)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum gives him a generation number of 11 in his dating scheme, implying a birth date in, very roughly, the second half of the 1300s.

Living: 1410.

The date is given by Bartrum (Mabon Glochydd 2).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Gruffudd ap Madog Gloddaith ap Madog Fychan.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Mabon Glochydd 2). It is given by Carr (1979, p. 147).

Mother: Gwenllian ferch Cynwrig Sais.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Mabon Glochydd 2).

Spouse: Gwerful ferch Dafydd Fychan.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Mabon Glochydd 2).

Spouse: Catrin ferch Robin Llwyd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Mabon Glochydd 2). Carr (1975, p. 133) notes that some pedigrees give Gwerful ferch Dafydd Fychan as Rhys's wife and the mother of Gruffudd, Mallt, and Gwenllian, but that according to a pedigree among the Mostyn papers, Rhys married Catrin ferch Robin Llwyd. Carr notes that an elegy by Robin Ddu on the children of Gruffudd ap Rhys refers to them as descendants of Robin Llwyd.

Children (by Gwerful):

Gwenllian married Llywelyn ap Tudur.

Children (by Catrin):

Gruffudd (1411/2 - 1448) married Jonet ferch Dafydd.

Margred married Hywel ap Madog.

Children (mother uncertain):

Ieuan.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Mabon Glochydd 2” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources that Bartrum cites for Rhys are: Peniarth 129 (63, 102), copied from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 137 (20, 118) -- written in the early 1500s by ‘Syr’ Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deiews; and Peniarth 128 (253a), “Llyfr Edward ap Roger”, written before 1582.]

Carr, Antony David. The Mostyn Family and Estate, 1200-1643 (PhD thesis, University of Wales, 1975).

Carr, A.D. “The Making of the Mostyns: the Genesis of a Landed Family” in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1979), pp. 137-157.