Edwin of Tegeingl

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• Alternate death: 1104

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Also called Edwin ap Gronwy. Prince of Tegaingl. "He held Counsillt near Flint under the Norman lord Robert of Rhuddlan, perhaps the beginning of feudal tenure in Wales." [Henry James Young, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Iwerydd ferch Cynfyn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1105

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Called by some Owain the Traitor. Welsh chieftan in Tegeingl. However, see also Darrell Wolcott, "Was Owain ap Edwin Really a Traitor?", citation details below.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown daughter of Ednywain Bendew). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Angharad of Tegaingl.

Angharad married Gruffydd ap Cynan ab Iago, King of Gwynedd about 1095. Gruffydd (son of Cynan ab Iago and Radnailt of Dublin) was born about 1055; died in 1137. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Boyer quoting Bartrum, this individual may have been a woman. "[M]any texts make Aldud a daughter of Owain, a mother of Owain, and wife of Ystifyn." However, Darrell Wolcott argues in "Was Owain ap Edwin Really a Traitor?" (citation details below) that this individual was a person adopted into Owain's family and that the name "Aldud" was "a corrupt rendition of 'alltud' meaning 'a stranger' adopted into Wales with certain legally defined rights; one whose ancestry was not proven Welsh stock." Wolcott elaborates on this argument in his paper "Aldud ap Owain of Tegeingl."

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Genilles ferch Hoedlyw ab Ithel an Edryd ab Inethan ab Iasedd ap Carwed ap Marchudd ap Cynan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonet ferch Ithel ab Einudd. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 23 Nov 1170
• Alternate death: 28 Nov 1170

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"Though it was Owain who finally accepted the principle of Angevin overlordship over Gwynedd, he regarded himself as no ordinary vassal (his attitude to episcopal elections in the see of Bangor should be noted) and it is clear that it was he who gave initial direction to the policies of his successors. It was largely due to his example, moreover, that the native rulers of Wales ceased to be mere tribal chieftains and took their place alongside the great feudal magnates of the time. The praises so repeatedly accorded to his many personal qualities by contemporary poets, and indeed by several public figures who could not have been predisposed in his favour, have so genuine a tone about them that the progressive trends in all the arts of peace and war discerned in 12th century Wales, it must be concluded, were in large measure due to the fostering genius of ‘Owain the Great.’" [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Gwladus ferch Llywarch. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cristin ferch Gronwy ab Owain ab Edwin. Cristin (daughter of Gronwy ab Owain ab Edwin and Genilles ferch Hoedlyw ab Ithel an Edryd ab Inethan ab Iasedd ap Carwed ap Marchudd ap Cynan) was born in of Tegeingl, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Owain Gwynedd). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Madog ap Maredudd, Prince of Powys Fadog. Madog (son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn ap Cynfyn and Hunydd ferch Einudd) died in 1160 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; was buried in St. Tysilio, Meifod, Powys, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"At the opening of the great Welsh uprising in 1136, she led an attack on the Norman fortress of Kidwelly, in her husband's absence, and was killed fighting outside the town, at a spot still known as Maes Gwenllian." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Gruffydd ap Rhys. Gruffydd (son of Rhys ap Tewdyr, King of Deheubarth and (Unknown wife of Rhys ap Tewdyr)) was born about 1090; died in 1137. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Cadwaladr ap Gruffudd ap (d. 1172), king in Wales, Owain's younger brother, is first mentioned in 1136. On Owain's accession in 1137 he was granted, or confirmed in possession of, Anglesey and Meirionydd, and the following year he received the northern half of Ceredigion after its conquest from the Normans. Until 1157 his relations with Owain were strained: on the one hand, he may well have nursed ambitions of supplanting his brother as king of Gwynedd, while, on the other, Owain's sons Hywel and Cynan sought to occupy their uncle's lands. In 1140 Cadwaladr joined with his brother in complaining to Bishop Bernard of St David's about the election of Meurig to the see of Bangor, but by the beginning of the following year Cadwaladr had allied himself, quite possibly to strengthen his hand against Owain, with Ranulf (II), earl of Chester (d. 1153), leading a contingent of Welsh troops alongside the latter at the battle of Lincoln against King Stephen on 2 February 1141. Cadwaladr greatly angered Owain in 1143 on account of his apparent complicity in the murder of Anarawd ap Gruffudd ap Rhys, to whom Owain had planned to give his daughter in marriage, and as a result he was driven out of northern Ceredigion by Hywel ab Owain and also, apparently, from Anglesey, until restored after threatening Owain with a military force hired in Ireland. However, Cadwaladr's position in Gwynedd remained precarious. In 1147 he was driven out of Meirionydd by his nephews, Hywel and Cynan; in 1149 he transferred his portion of Ceredigion to his son, Cadfan, and in the following year Cadfan was seized, together with his land and castle of Llanrhystud, by Hywel ab Owain; and in 1152 he was expelled from his only remaining territory of Anglesey. Meanwhile the alliance with Ranulf continued, as is shown by charters of the late 1140s and early 1150s in which Cadwaladr witnesses as king of Wales ((rege Waliarum)) and king of north Wales ((rege Nortwaliarum)). These styles suggest that Ranulf encouraged his ally's regal ambitions in Gwynedd so as to make trouble for Owain, whose expansion into Tegeingl and Ystrad Alun by 1150 posed a threat to the earl's authority. By 1153 Cadwaladr had married Aliz de Clare, quite possibly to be identified with Adeliza, widow of Richard de Clare (d. 1136), the former Norman lord of Ceredigion, and thus Ranulf's sister; the marriage may have been intended to strengthen Cadwaladr's claims to Ceredigion, control of which passed to the sons of Gruffudd ap Rhys of Deheubarth by 1153. This was not his first marriage, however, for his son Cadfan was already an adult by 1149; indeed, the late medieval genealogical tract referred to above states that Cadwaladr had children with four women in all. The support given by Cadwaladr to the Angevin cause in Stephen's reign stood him in good stead after his expulsion from Gwynedd in 1152, for by 1155 or 1156 he had been granted the estate of Ness in Shropshire by Henry II, who ensured that he was restored to his lands in north Wales following the campaign of 1157 (in which Cadwaladr fought on Henry's side). These Angevin connections probably explain why Cadwaladr patronized the Augustinian abbey of Haughmond in Shropshire, to which, as early as the 1140s, he granted the church of Nefyn in Ll?n, for Haughmond (situated only 10 miles away from Ness) received benefactions from Ranulf of Chester and other Angevin supporters. After 1157 Cadwaladr remained loyal to Owain Gwynedd for the rest of the latter's reign. Together with his nephews Hywel and Cynan he took part in Reginald fitz Henry's expedition against Rhys ap Gruffudd in 1159, he participated in the campaign against Henry II in 1165, and he fought alongside his brother in the campaigns which led to the occupation of Tegeingl in 1167. Famed, according to Gerald of Wales, for his outstanding generosity, Cadwaladr outlived Owain by about fifteen months, and was buried beside his brother in Bangor Cathedral in 1172." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

But see the entry for his wife (probably his third wife) Aliz de Clara for Peter Stewart's comment on the assertion that Aliz was the widow of Richard de Clare.

Cadwaladr married Aliz de Clara before 1151. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was Owain's cousin. They were married outside of the Church, which actively disapproved of their union.

Family/Spouse: Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd. Owain (son of Gruffydd ap Cynan ab Iago, King of Gwynedd and Angharad ferch Owain) died in 1169; was buried in Bangor Cathedral, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]