Rhys Sais ab Ednyfed Gam ap Llywarch Gam ap Lluddocca

Abt 1025 - 1073  (~ 48 years)

• Name	Rhys Sais ab Ednyfed Gam ap Llywarch Gam ap Lluddocca
  Birth	Abt 1025  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1030
  Death	1073  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I39355	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Ednyfed Gam ap Llywarch Gam ap Lluddocca ao Tudur Trefor,   b. Abt 995
  Mother	Sioned ferch Rhiwallon,   b. Abt 1000   d. Abt 1070 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Family ID	F23115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Efa ferch Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon,   b. Abt 1030
  Children	+ 1. Elidir ap Rhys Sais ab Endyfed Gam ap Llywarch Gam,   b. Abt 1160
  Family ID	F23114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2023

  
  

• Notes

  "Due to the proximity of their lands to the Saxon kingdom of Mercia, the family descended from Llyddoca ap Tudor Trevor had established amicable relations with their neighbor to the east; it is believed the first Rhys Sais became fluent in the Saxon language and served the Earl of Mercia as latimer or interpretor. Thus his nickname "Rhys the Englishman". Apparently his son Tudor and grandson Bleddyn served in the same capacity for the Norman Marcher Lords, the Earls of Montgomery. It was during the lifetime of the first Rhys Sais that the majority of his lands (all but Nanheudwy which, among his holdings, lay the furthest west) were detached from Powys to become a part of the Norman shire Salop (now Shropshire)." [Darrell Wolcott, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S7044] Darrell Wolcott, "The Clan of Tudor Trevor" at Ancient Wales Studies. [S4331] The Welsh genealogies of P. C. Bartrum (1908-2008), being digitized at the Bartrum Project at Aberystwyth University. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.