Tudur ap Gronwy ab Ednyfed Fychan

Tudur participated in the revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn. He was his steward. Tudur was rhaglaw of Dindaethwy in 1302/3.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Bartrum (Marchudd 12) gives Tudur a number of 7 in his generational dating system, implying a birth date of, very roughly, about 1230. Roberts (1969, p. 186) notes that Tudur may have been the "son of Wronob son of Ednyfed" who was one of the hostages surrendered by Dafydd ap Llywelyn after Henry III's successful campaign of 1241, and that he described himself as an old man in 1305.

Date of Death: 1311.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Roberts (WBO) and by Carr (1990, p.2; ODNB).

(possible) Date of Burial: 11 October 1311.

Roberts (1969, p. 214 appendix) notes that the date appears in a sixteenth century manuscript which claimed to contain information from Gutun Owain.

Place of Burial: the Dominican friary at Bangor.

The place is given by Carr (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Gronwy ab Ednyfed Fychan ap Cynwrig.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 12), and given by Roberts (WBO; 1969, p. 274), and by Carr (1990, p.2; ODNB).

(possible) Mother: Morfudd ferch Meurig of Gwent.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 12).

Spouse: Angharad ferch Ithel Fychan.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Marchudd 12).

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.)

Gronwy (died 1331) married Gwerful ferch Madog.

Morfudd married Llywarch ap Heilin.

Hywel.

Tudur Fychan.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Marchudd 12” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

[The sources that Bartrum cites for Tudur are: BM. Add. 14919 (135), probably by Gutun Owain; Peniarth 131 (60), written early in the reign of Henry VIII; Peniarth 131 (291), written by Ieuan Brechfa about 1500; Peniarth 129 (58), copied about 1500 from a 1497 MS by Gutun Owain; and Peniarth 127 (22), written by Syr Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws between about 1510 and 1523.]

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

Carr, A.D. “Gwilym ap Gruffydd and the Rise of the Penrhyn Estate” in Welsh History Review Vol. 15, no. 1 (June 1990), pp. 1-20.

Carr, A.D. Medieval Anglesey. (Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 2011 2nd ed.).

Carr, A.D. “Tudor family, forebears of (per.c.1215-1404)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Roberts, Glyn “GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN (Caerns.)” in Welsh Biography Online.

Roberts, Glyn. Aspects of Welsh History. (University of Wales Press, 1969).