Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1171.
This date is given by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog 6). It is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1171.
Relationships
Father: Llywarch ap Trahaearn ap Caradog.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog 6) and given by Pryce (Acts Table 2). It is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1171.
Mother: uncertain.
Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog 6) shows Dyddgu ferch Iorwerth ap Cadwgon ab Elystan Glodrudd, but Baldwin (LaI) regards this as dubious.
Spouse: Dyddgu ferch Madog ab Idnerth.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (EVWG Trahaearn ap Caradog 6).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Maredudd of Castell Dolforwyn (died 1244) married Juliana de Lacy.
Llywelyn.
References
Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).
The sources Bartrum gives for Robert are:
Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru,
14. “Maredudd ap Rrotpert ap Llowarch ap Trehaiarn ap Karadawg ap Gwnn ap Gollwyn ap Ednywain ap Bleddyn. I vam oedd Ddyddgv verch Madawc ap Idnerth ap Kadwgon ap Elystan glodrydd.”
Brut y Tywysogion (153).
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 Robert are Brut y Tywysogion and his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.]
Pryce, Huw. The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)
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).