Gwladus Gam

- 1454

• Name	Gwladus Gam  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1454  [5, 6]
  Burial	Priory church, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales   [6]
  Person ID	I29895	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Dafydd Gam,   b. Abt 1358   d. 25 Oct 1415, Agincourt, Pas-de-Calais, France (Age ~ 57 years)
  Family ID	F17842	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	William ap Thomas ap Gwilym,   b. of Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 1446
  Children	1. Elizabeth ferch William ap Thomas   2. William Herbert,   b. Abt 1423   d. 27 Jul 1469, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England (Age ~ 46 years)
  Family ID	F17841	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Roger Vaughan,   b. of Bredwardine, Herefordshire, England d. 25 Oct 1415, Agincourt, Pas-de-Calais, France
  Children	1. Roger Vaughan,   b. of Tretower, Breconshire, Wales d. 1471, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Family ID	F17916	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Patron of Abergavenny Priory. Maid of honor to both wives of Henry IV. Described by the Welsh poet Lewys Glyn Cothi as “Gwladus the happy and faultless” and “like the sun--the pavilion of light.”

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S903] The Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales, 2007 and ongoing. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S4327] Tudor Placemen and Statesmen: Select Case Histories by Narasingha Prosad Sil. Madison, New Jersey: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. [S4324] Monastic Wales. [S4325] The Heroines of Welsh History by T. J. Llewelyn Prichard. London: W. and F. G. Cash, 1854.