Individual Details
Owain ap Gruffyd Glyndŵr
(1354 - 1416)
[[Category:Wales]] [[Category:Nominated Profiles]] [[Category: Cymru 742-1535]] [[Category:Shakespeare characters]] ----Below you will find a timeline of [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] with links to other wikitree profiles and links to outside websites that give a better understanding of Glyndŵr Rising and the role of the contemporaries of Glyndŵr. Citation that is not listed under "Sources" can be found by clicking the under-lined links.
Enjoy,
[[Alvis-9|Katherine]], [[Parker-10195 | Darrell]], [[Chapman-4516|Mark]], & [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]] ----=== excerpt from ''[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr]''===
-- MERGED NOTE ------------
[[Category:Wales]]
[[Category:Nominated Profiles]]
[[Category: Kings of the Britons]]
[[Category: Cymru 742-1535]]
[[Category:Shakespeare characters]]
}
----Below you will find a timeline of [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] with links to other wikitree profiles and links to outside websites that give a better understanding of Glyndŵr Rising and the role of the contemporaries of Glyndŵr. Citation that is not listed under "Sources" can be found by clicking the under-lined links.
Enjoy,
[[Alvis-9|Katherine]], [[Parker-10195 | Darrell]], [[Chapman-4516|Mark]], & [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
----=== excerpt from ''[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr]''===
It was not Bartrum's sources which erred, but his linking of two different citations: One group of citations[7] Pen. 128, 178a; Pen. 129, 88; Pen. 127, 114 & 212 - [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] yield ''Owain Glyndŵr ap Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd'', while another group[8] Pen. 127, 29; Pen. 129, 59 & 68 - [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] mention a ''Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl'''''*''' (born 1350).
But these two groups of citations actually refer to two different men named Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd; one is the father of Owain Glyndwr and the other is a 2nd cousin of Owain:
: 1st. [[Maelor-2|Gruffudd Maelor II]] (1195)
: :: 2nd. [[Gruffudd_Maelor-1|Gruffudd Fychan ap Maelor]](Fychan or Farwn Gwyn) (1225)
:
::: 3rd. [[Gruffudd_Farwn_Gwyn-1|Madog Crupl]] (1260)
:
:
:::: 4th. [[Madoc_Crupl-1|Madog Fychan]] (1290)
:
::::: 5th. [[Madoc_Fychan-1|Gruffudd]] (1320)
:
:::::: 6th. [[Fychan-11|Gruffudd Fychan I]] (1350) ::::::: ''Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl'''''*'''
:::: 4th. [[Unknown-13536|Gruffudd ap Madog]] Crupl (1295)
::::: 5th. [[Gruffydd_IV-1|Gruffudd Fychan]] II (1325)
:::::: ''Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffud ap Madog Crupl'':::::: 6th. [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] (1359)[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] Ancient Wales Studies, by Darrell Wolcott. entered 2013-12-08 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
===Early Life===
Owain Glyndŵr (anglicized as Owen Glendower) was born of aristocratic stock around 1354, the son of [[Gruffydd_IV-1|Gruffydd Fychan II]], Hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy and [[Thomas-10981|Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth]] and could claim descent from all three of the major royal houses that had dominated Wales before the English conquest of 1282.
On the death of his father, when Owain was around sixteen years old he went to live with [[Hanmer-30|David Hanmer]], a lawyer, who sent the young Owain to London to study law at the [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/288741/Inns-of-Court Inns of Court].
Gwynedd-19
=== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Wales_family_trees Heir of Cadwaladr] ===
Glyndwr was a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Powys dynasty of northern Powys] and, on his mother's side, descended from that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Dinefwr Deheubarth] (Dinefwr) in the south. The family had fought for [[Gwynedd-19|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llywelyn_the_Last Ein Llyw Olaf], in the last war and regained their lands in north-east Wales only through a calculated association with the powerful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcher_Lord Marcher lords] of Chirk, Bromfield and Yale and the lesser family of Lestrange. They thus rooted themselves in the Welsh official class in the March and figured among its lesser nobility.
Glyndwr was comfortably placed. He held the lordships of Glyn Dyfrdwy and Cynllaith Owain near the Dee directly of the king by Welsh Barony. He had an income of some L200 a year and a fine moated mansion at Sycharth with tiles and chimneyed roofs, a deerpark, henory, fishpond and mill. He was a complete Marcher gentleman and had put in his term at the Inns of Court. He must have been knowledgeable in law; he married the daughter of Sir David Hanmer, a distinguished lawyer who had served under [[Plantagenet-70|Edward III]] and [[Plantagenet-864|Richard II]]. He had served in the wars and retinues of Henry of Lancaster and the earl of Arundel, and served with distinction in the Scottish campaign of 1385.
But he was more than a Marcher. He was one of the living representatives of the old royal houses of Wales, an heir to [[Ap_Cadwallon-4|Cadwaladr]], in a Wales strewn with the rubble of such dynasties. Wales in the late 14th century was a turbulent place. The brutal savaging of [[Gwynedd-19|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Last]] and [[Plantagenet-2|Edward I]]'s stringent policies of subordinating Wales had left a discontented, cowed nation where any signs of rebellion were sure to attract support. In 1399-1400 Glyn Dwr ran up against his powerful neighbor, [[Grey-790|Reginald de Grey, Lord of Ruthin]], an intimate of the new king, Henry IV. The quarrel was over common land which Grey had stolen. Glyndwr could get no justice from the king or parliament. This proud man, over forty and grey-haired, was visited with insult and malice. There are indications that Glyndwr made an effort to contact other disaffected Welshmen, and when he raised his standard outside Ruthin on 16 September 1400, his followers from the very beginning proclaimed him ''Prince of Wales''.[http://www.castlewales.com/glyndwr.html Owain Glyndwr] Castles of Wales; Gwyn A. Williams 1985; Wales: The Rough Guide, 1994. entered 2013-12-10 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
=== Glyndŵr Rising===
'''1 - Siblings from ''[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr]'''''
Although the medieval pedigrees repeat all the nicknames for both lines of the family, we suggest only one of the men called Iorwerth was known as "Hen" and only one of the men named Ednyfed was known as "Gam". It is also possible a single Iorwerth was actually called "Ddu" and only one of them was actually called "Foel". Like Bartrum, most of the 16th century genealogists did not examine the family timeline and thought the two family cadets were a single branch and thus added the nicknames to both groups of same-named men.
When we correctly assign Lleuci ferch Gruffudd Fychan and Isabel ferch Gruffudd Fychan to the man born c. 1350, not to the father of [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] born c. 1325, we find only 2 sisters and two brothers for Owain:
: a. [[Gruffydd-97|Lowri]], born c. 1360, who married [[Puleston-16|Robert Puleston]], son of Richard. [30]
: b. Morfydd, born c. 1355, who married Dafydd ap Ednyfed Gam ap Iorwerth Foel (the Ednyfed born c. 1305), that Dafydd born c. 1340 [31]
: c. [[Tudor-25|Tudor]], born c. 1365, who was slain in 1405 at the Battle of Pwll Melyn during the [[Glyndŵr-1|Glyndŵr]] revolt.
: d. Madog, born c. 1355, the man mentioned earlier herein who is cited as Madog Fychan. Since he is nowhere found during the Glyndŵr revolt, he may have died prior to 1399 leaving a young son named Gruffudd.
Those modern sources which claim Owain Glyndŵr had a brother named Gruffudd find no confirmation in the early pedigree manuscripts.[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] by Darrell Wolcott. entered 2013 Dec 03 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
'''2 - Siblings'''
The names and number of Owain Glyndŵr's siblings cannot be certainly known. The following are given by the Chevalier J Y W Lloyd:
: i. Brother [[Tudor-25|Tudur, Lord of Gwyddelwern]], born about 1362, died 11 March 1405 at a battle in Brecknockshire in the wars of his brother.
: ii. Brother Gruffudd who had a daughter and heiress, Eva.:iii. Sister [[Gruffydd-97|Lowri]], also spelled Lowry, married [[Puleston-16|Robert Puleston]] of Emral.
:iv. Sister Isabel married Adda ap Iorwerth Ddu of Llys Pengwern:v. Sister Morfudd married Sir Richard Croft of Croft Castle, in Herefordshire and, secondly, David ab Ednyfed Gam of Llys Pengwern.
:vi. Sister Gwenllian.
[[Tudor-25|Tudur]], Isabel and Lowri are given as his siblings by the more cautious Prof. R. R. Davies. That Owain Glyndŵr had another brother Gruffudd is likely; that he possibly had a third, Maredudd, is suggested by one referenceEntered by Michelle Brooks.
===Links===
* [[Wikipedia: Owain Glyndŵr]]
* [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] Ancient Wales Studies, by Darrell Wolcott
* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/374/ Castles and Town Walls] in Gwynedd
* [http://www.castlewales.com/home.html the Castles of Wales]
* [http://www.owain-glyndwr-soc.org.uk/index.html Cymdeithas Owain Glyndwr] (The Owain Glyndwr Society)
* [http://www.harlechknights.com/resources.php?resID=16 Harlech Medieval Society].
* [http://history.powys.org.uk/history/intro/entry.html History of Powys]; Powys Digital History Project; Powys County Archives
* [http://www.canolfanglyndwr.org/wales-main.php Owain Glyndŵr's Wales] ©Canolfan Owain Glyndŵr Cyf, 2010
* [http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/owain_glyndwr.html Owain Glyndŵr - Early Life] ~ The Native Princes of Wales.© 2004 - 2005 www.englishmonarchs.co.uk®
=== Sources ===
* J.E.Lloyd, ''The Battle of Pwll Melyn'', in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 88 (1933), p.347-8.
* ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jslIL0Q-OUAC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=percy+%26+glendower&source=bl&ots=LTKuqhD9xb&sig=9W0LA96XawJKK1TcTs_JepOt2wY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a4lOU5H3DtOzsQT764FQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBTge#v=onepage&q=percy%20%26%20glendower&f=false Memoirs of Owen Glendower], ([[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndwr]]): With a Sketch of the History of the Ancient Britons, from the Conquest of Wales by Edward the First, to the Present Time'' (Google eBook), Thomas Thomas. Joseph Potter, 1822 - Wales - 240 pages. accessed 16 April 2014 [[Bairfield-1|amb]]
Enjoy,
[[Alvis-9|Katherine]], [[Parker-10195 | Darrell]], [[Chapman-4516|Mark]], & [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]] ----=== excerpt from ''[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr]''===
[[image:Glynd_373_r-1-5.jpg|450px|Ancestry of Owain Glendower]]
It was not Bartrum's sources which erred, but his linking of two different citations: One group of citations[7] Pen. 128, 178a; Pen. 129, 88; Pen. 127, 114 & 212 - [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] yield ''Owain Glyndŵr ap Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd'', while another group[8] Pen. 127, 29; Pen. 129, 59 & 68 - [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] mention a ''Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl'''''*''' (born 1350). But these two groups of citations actually refer to two different men named Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd; one is the father of Owain Glyndwr and the other is a 2nd cousin of Owain: : 1st. [[Maelor-2|Gruffudd Maelor II]] (1195) : :: 2nd. [[Gruffudd_Maelor-1|Gruffudd Fychan ap Maelor]](Fychan or Farwn Gwyn) (1225) : ::: 3rd. [[Gruffudd_Farwn_Gwyn-1|Madog Crupl]] (1260) : : :::: 4th. [[Madoc_Crupl-1|Madog Fychan]] (1290) : ::::: 5th. [[Madoc_Fychan-1|Gruffudd]] (1320) : :::::: 6th. [[Fychan-11|Gruffudd Fychan I]] (1350) ::::::: ''Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl'''''*''' :::: 4th. [[Unknown-13536|Gruffudd ap Madog]] Crupl (1295) ::::: 5th. [[Gruffydd_IV-1|Gruffudd Fychan]] II (1325) :::::: ''Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffud ap Madog Crupl'':::::: 6th. [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] (1359)[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] Ancient Wales Studies, by Darrell Wolcott. entered 2013-12-08 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]] ===Early Life=== Owain Glyndŵr (anglicized as Owen Glendower) was born of aristocratic stock around 1354, the son of [[Gruffydd_IV-1|Gruffydd Fychan II]], Hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy and [[Thomas-10981|Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth]] and could claim descent from all three of the major royal houses that had dominated Wales before the English conquest of 1282. On the death of his father, when Owain was around sixteen years old he went to live with [[Hanmer-30|David Hanmer]], a lawyer, who sent the young Owain to London to study law at the [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/288741/Inns-of-Court Inns of Court]. Gwynedd-19 === [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Wales_family_trees Heir of Cadwaladr] === Glyndwr was a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Powys dynasty of northern Powys] and, on his mother's side, descended from that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Dinefwr Deheubarth] (Dinefwr) in the south. The family had fought for [[Gwynedd-19|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llywelyn_the_Last Ein Llyw Olaf], in the last war and regained their lands in north-east Wales only through a calculated association with the powerful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcher_Lord Marcher lords] of Chirk, Bromfield and Yale and the lesser family of Lestrange. They thus rooted themselves in the Welsh official class in the March and figured among its lesser nobility. Glyndwr was comfortably placed. He held the lordships of Glyn Dyfrdwy and Cynllaith Owain near the Dee directly of the king by Welsh Barony. He had an income of some L200 a year and a fine moated mansion at Sycharth with tiles and chimneyed roofs, a deerpark, henory, fishpond and mill. He was a complete Marcher gentleman and had put in his term at the Inns of Court. He must have been knowledgeable in law; he married the daughter of Sir David Hanmer, a distinguished lawyer who had served under [[Plantagenet-70|Edward III]] and [[Plantagenet-864|Richard II]]. He had served in the wars and retinues of Henry of Lancaster and the earl of Arundel, and served with distinction in the Scottish campaign of 1385. But he was more than a Marcher. He was one of the living representatives of the old royal houses of Wales, an heir to [[Ap_Cadwallon-4|Cadwaladr]], in a Wales strewn with the rubble of such dynasties. Wales in the late 14th century was a turbulent place. The brutal savaging of [[Gwynedd-19|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Last]] and [[Plantagenet-2|Edward I]]'s stringent policies of subordinating Wales had left a discontented, cowed nation where any signs of rebellion were sure to attract support. In 1399-1400 Glyn Dwr ran up against his powerful neighbor, [[Grey-790|Reginald de Grey, Lord of Ruthin]], an intimate of the new king, Henry IV. The quarrel was over common land which Grey had stolen. Glyndwr could get no justice from the king or parliament. This proud man, over forty and grey-haired, was visited with insult and malice. There are indications that Glyndwr made an effort to contact other disaffected Welshmen, and when he raised his standard outside Ruthin on 16 September 1400, his followers from the very beginning proclaimed him ''Prince of Wales''.[http://www.castlewales.com/glyndwr.html Owain Glyndwr] Castles of Wales; Gwyn A. Williams 1985; Wales: The Rough Guide, 1994. entered 2013-12-10 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]] === Glyndŵr Rising=== '''1 - Siblings from ''[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr]''''' Although the medieval pedigrees repeat all the nicknames for both lines of the family, we suggest only one of the men called Iorwerth was known as "Hen" and only one of the men named Ednyfed was known as "Gam". It is also possible a single Iorwerth was actually called "Ddu" and only one of them was actually called "Foel". Like Bartrum, most of the 16th century genealogists did not examine the family timeline and thought the two family cadets were a single branch and thus added the nicknames to both groups of same-named men. When we correctly assign Lleuci ferch Gruffudd Fychan and Isabel ferch Gruffudd Fychan to the man born c. 1350, not to the father of [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] born c. 1325, we find only 2 sisters and two brothers for Owain: : a. [[Gruffydd-97|Lowri]], born c. 1360, who married [[Puleston-16|Robert Puleston]], son of Richard. [30] : b. Morfydd, born c. 1355, who married Dafydd ap Ednyfed Gam ap Iorwerth Foel (the Ednyfed born c. 1305), that Dafydd born c. 1340 [31] : c. [[Tudor-25|Tudor]], born c. 1365, who was slain in 1405 at the Battle of Pwll Melyn during the [[Glyndŵr-1|Glyndŵr]] revolt. : d. Madog, born c. 1355, the man mentioned earlier herein who is cited as Madog Fychan. Since he is nowhere found during the Glyndŵr revolt, he may have died prior to 1399 leaving a young son named Gruffudd. Those modern sources which claim Owain Glyndŵr had a brother named Gruffudd find no confirmation in the early pedigree manuscripts.[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] by Darrell Wolcott. entered 2013 Dec 03 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]] '''2 - Siblings''' The names and number of Owain Glyndŵr's siblings cannot be certainly known. The following are given by the Chevalier J Y W Lloyd: : i. Brother [[Tudor-25|Tudur, Lord of Gwyddelwern]], born about 1362, died 11 March 1405 at a battle in Brecknockshire in the wars of his brother. : ii. Brother Gruffudd who had a daughter and heiress, Eva.:iii. Sister [[Gruffydd-97|Lowri]], also spelled Lowry, married [[Puleston-16|Robert Puleston]] of Emral. :iv. Sister Isabel married Adda ap Iorwerth Ddu of Llys Pengwern:v. Sister Morfudd married Sir Richard Croft of Croft Castle, in Herefordshire and, secondly, David ab Ednyfed Gam of Llys Pengwern. :vi. Sister Gwenllian. [[Tudor-25|Tudur]], Isabel and Lowri are given as his siblings by the more cautious Prof. R. R. Davies. That Owain Glyndŵr had another brother Gruffudd is likely; that he possibly had a third, Maredudd, is suggested by one referenceEntered by Michelle Brooks. ===Links=== * [[Wikipedia: Owain Glyndŵr]] * [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] Ancient Wales Studies, by Darrell Wolcott * [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/374/ Castles and Town Walls] in Gwynedd * [http://www.castlewales.com/home.html the Castles of Wales] * [http://www.owain-glyndwr-soc.org.uk/index.html Cymdeithas Owain Glyndwr] (The Owain Glyndwr Society) * [http://www.harlechknights.com/resources.php?resID=16 Harlech Medieval Society]. * [http://history.powys.org.uk/history/intro/entry.html History of Powys]; Powys Digital History Project; Powys County Archives * [http://www.canolfanglyndwr.org/wales-main.php Owain Glyndŵr's Wales] ©Canolfan Owain Glyndŵr Cyf, 2010 * [http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/owain_glyndwr.html Owain Glyndŵr - Early Life] ~ The Native Princes of Wales.© 2004 - 2005 www.englishmonarchs.co.uk® === Sources === -- MERGED NOTE ------------
[[Category:Wales]]
[[Category:Nominated Profiles]]
[[Category: Kings of the Britons]]
[[Category: Cymru 742-1535]]
[[Category:Shakespeare characters]]
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----Below you will find a timeline of [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] with links to other wikitree profiles and links to outside websites that give a better understanding of Glyndŵr Rising and the role of the contemporaries of Glyndŵr. Citation that is not listed under "Sources" can be found by clicking the under-lined links.
Enjoy,
[[Alvis-9|Katherine]], [[Parker-10195 | Darrell]], [[Chapman-4516|Mark]], & [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
----=== excerpt from ''[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr]''===
[[image:Glynd_373_r-1-5.jpg|450px|Ancestry of Owain Glendower]]
It was not Bartrum's sources which erred, but his linking of two different citations: One group of citations[7] Pen. 128, 178a; Pen. 129, 88; Pen. 127, 114 & 212 - [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] yield ''Owain Glyndŵr ap Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd'', while another group[8] Pen. 127, 29; Pen. 129, 59 & 68 - [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] mention a ''Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl'''''*''' (born 1350).
But these two groups of citations actually refer to two different men named Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd; one is the father of Owain Glyndwr and the other is a 2nd cousin of Owain:
: 1st. [[Maelor-2|Gruffudd Maelor II]] (1195)
: :: 2nd. [[Gruffudd_Maelor-1|Gruffudd Fychan ap Maelor]](Fychan or Farwn Gwyn) (1225)
:
::: 3rd. [[Gruffudd_Farwn_Gwyn-1|Madog Crupl]] (1260)
:
:
:::: 4th. [[Madoc_Crupl-1|Madog Fychan]] (1290)
:
::::: 5th. [[Madoc_Fychan-1|Gruffudd]] (1320)
:
:::::: 6th. [[Fychan-11|Gruffudd Fychan I]] (1350) ::::::: ''Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl'''''*'''
:::: 4th. [[Unknown-13536|Gruffudd ap Madog]] Crupl (1295)
::::: 5th. [[Gruffydd_IV-1|Gruffudd Fychan]] II (1325)
:::::: ''Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffud ap Madog Crupl'':::::: 6th. [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] (1359)[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] Ancient Wales Studies, by Darrell Wolcott. entered 2013-12-08 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
===Early Life===
Owain Glyndŵr (anglicized as Owen Glendower) was born of aristocratic stock around 1354, the son of [[Gruffydd_IV-1|Gruffydd Fychan II]], Hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy and [[Thomas-10981|Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth]] and could claim descent from all three of the major royal houses that had dominated Wales before the English conquest of 1282.
On the death of his father, when Owain was around sixteen years old he went to live with [[Hanmer-30|David Hanmer]], a lawyer, who sent the young Owain to London to study law at the [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/288741/Inns-of-Court Inns of Court].
Gwynedd-19
=== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Wales_family_trees Heir of Cadwaladr] ===
Glyndwr was a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Powys dynasty of northern Powys] and, on his mother's side, descended from that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Dinefwr Deheubarth] (Dinefwr) in the south. The family had fought for [[Gwynedd-19|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llywelyn_the_Last Ein Llyw Olaf], in the last war and regained their lands in north-east Wales only through a calculated association with the powerful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcher_Lord Marcher lords] of Chirk, Bromfield and Yale and the lesser family of Lestrange. They thus rooted themselves in the Welsh official class in the March and figured among its lesser nobility.
Glyndwr was comfortably placed. He held the lordships of Glyn Dyfrdwy and Cynllaith Owain near the Dee directly of the king by Welsh Barony. He had an income of some L200 a year and a fine moated mansion at Sycharth with tiles and chimneyed roofs, a deerpark, henory, fishpond and mill. He was a complete Marcher gentleman and had put in his term at the Inns of Court. He must have been knowledgeable in law; he married the daughter of Sir David Hanmer, a distinguished lawyer who had served under [[Plantagenet-70|Edward III]] and [[Plantagenet-864|Richard II]]. He had served in the wars and retinues of Henry of Lancaster and the earl of Arundel, and served with distinction in the Scottish campaign of 1385.
But he was more than a Marcher. He was one of the living representatives of the old royal houses of Wales, an heir to [[Ap_Cadwallon-4|Cadwaladr]], in a Wales strewn with the rubble of such dynasties. Wales in the late 14th century was a turbulent place. The brutal savaging of [[Gwynedd-19|Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Last]] and [[Plantagenet-2|Edward I]]'s stringent policies of subordinating Wales had left a discontented, cowed nation where any signs of rebellion were sure to attract support. In 1399-1400 Glyn Dwr ran up against his powerful neighbor, [[Grey-790|Reginald de Grey, Lord of Ruthin]], an intimate of the new king, Henry IV. The quarrel was over common land which Grey had stolen. Glyndwr could get no justice from the king or parliament. This proud man, over forty and grey-haired, was visited with insult and malice. There are indications that Glyndwr made an effort to contact other disaffected Welshmen, and when he raised his standard outside Ruthin on 16 September 1400, his followers from the very beginning proclaimed him ''Prince of Wales''.[http://www.castlewales.com/glyndwr.html Owain Glyndwr] Castles of Wales; Gwyn A. Williams 1985; Wales: The Rough Guide, 1994. entered 2013-12-10 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
=== Glyndŵr Rising===
'''1 - Siblings from ''[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr]'''''
Although the medieval pedigrees repeat all the nicknames for both lines of the family, we suggest only one of the men called Iorwerth was known as "Hen" and only one of the men named Ednyfed was known as "Gam". It is also possible a single Iorwerth was actually called "Ddu" and only one of them was actually called "Foel". Like Bartrum, most of the 16th century genealogists did not examine the family timeline and thought the two family cadets were a single branch and thus added the nicknames to both groups of same-named men.
When we correctly assign Lleuci ferch Gruffudd Fychan and Isabel ferch Gruffudd Fychan to the man born c. 1350, not to the father of [[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndŵr]] born c. 1325, we find only 2 sisters and two brothers for Owain:
: a. [[Gruffydd-97|Lowri]], born c. 1360, who married [[Puleston-16|Robert Puleston]], son of Richard. [30]
: b. Morfydd, born c. 1355, who married Dafydd ap Ednyfed Gam ap Iorwerth Foel (the Ednyfed born c. 1305), that Dafydd born c. 1340 [31]
: c. [[Tudor-25|Tudor]], born c. 1365, who was slain in 1405 at the Battle of Pwll Melyn during the [[Glyndŵr-1|Glyndŵr]] revolt.
: d. Madog, born c. 1355, the man mentioned earlier herein who is cited as Madog Fychan. Since he is nowhere found during the Glyndŵr revolt, he may have died prior to 1399 leaving a young son named Gruffudd.
Those modern sources which claim Owain Glyndŵr had a brother named Gruffudd find no confirmation in the early pedigree manuscripts.[http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] by Darrell Wolcott. entered 2013 Dec 03 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]
'''2 - Siblings'''
The names and number of Owain Glyndŵr's siblings cannot be certainly known. The following are given by the Chevalier J Y W Lloyd:
: i. Brother [[Tudor-25|Tudur, Lord of Gwyddelwern]], born about 1362, died 11 March 1405 at a battle in Brecknockshire in the wars of his brother.
: ii. Brother Gruffudd who had a daughter and heiress, Eva.:iii. Sister [[Gruffydd-97|Lowri]], also spelled Lowry, married [[Puleston-16|Robert Puleston]] of Emral.
:iv. Sister Isabel married Adda ap Iorwerth Ddu of Llys Pengwern:v. Sister Morfudd married Sir Richard Croft of Croft Castle, in Herefordshire and, secondly, David ab Ednyfed Gam of Llys Pengwern.
:vi. Sister Gwenllian.
[[Tudor-25|Tudur]], Isabel and Lowri are given as his siblings by the more cautious Prof. R. R. Davies. That Owain Glyndŵr had another brother Gruffudd is likely; that he possibly had a third, Maredudd, is suggested by one referenceEntered by Michelle Brooks.
===Links===
* [[Wikipedia: Owain Glyndŵr]]
* [http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id200.html The Ancestry of Owain Glyndŵr] Ancient Wales Studies, by Darrell Wolcott
* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/374/ Castles and Town Walls] in Gwynedd
* [http://www.castlewales.com/home.html the Castles of Wales]
* [http://www.owain-glyndwr-soc.org.uk/index.html Cymdeithas Owain Glyndwr] (The Owain Glyndwr Society)
* [http://www.harlechknights.com/resources.php?resID=16 Harlech Medieval Society].
* [http://history.powys.org.uk/history/intro/entry.html History of Powys]; Powys Digital History Project; Powys County Archives
* [http://www.canolfanglyndwr.org/wales-main.php Owain Glyndŵr's Wales] ©Canolfan Owain Glyndŵr Cyf, 2010
* [http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/owain_glyndwr.html Owain Glyndŵr - Early Life] ~ The Native Princes of Wales.© 2004 - 2005 www.englishmonarchs.co.uk®
=== Sources ===
* J.E.Lloyd, ''The Battle of Pwll Melyn'', in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 88 (1933), p.347-8.
* ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jslIL0Q-OUAC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=percy+%26+glendower&source=bl&ots=LTKuqhD9xb&sig=9W0LA96XawJKK1TcTs_JepOt2wY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a4lOU5H3DtOzsQT764FQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBTge#v=onepage&q=percy%20%26%20glendower&f=false Memoirs of Owen Glendower], ([[Glyndŵr-1|Owain Glyndwr]]): With a Sketch of the History of the Ancient Britons, from the Conquest of Wales by Edward the First, to the Present Time'' (Google eBook), Thomas Thomas. Joseph Potter, 1822 - Wales - 240 pages. accessed 16 April 2014 [[Bairfield-1|amb]]
Events
| Birth | 1354 | Rhiwabon, Maelor Gymraeg,Denbighshire, Wales | |||
| Birth | 1354 | Rhiwabon, Maelor Gymraeg, Denbighshire, Wales | |||
| Marriage | 1383 | Marred Hanmer | |||
| Marriage | 1383 | Margaret Glyndŵr Hanmer | |||
| Death | 1416 | Monington, Herefordshire, , England | |||
| Alt name | Owain "Prince of Wales" Glyndŵr | ||||
| Reference No | 3768852 | ||||
| Reference No | 3834201 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret Glyndŵr Hanmer (1357 - 1385) |
| Child | Gruffydd Owain (1380 - 1475) |
| Child | Alice Glendower (1385 - 1416) |
| Spouse | Marred Hanmer (1357 - 1385) |
| Child | Alice Glendower (1385 - 1416) |
| Child | Gruffydd Owain (1380 - 1475) |
| Father | Gruffydd Vychan Gruffydd (1325 - 1405) |
| Mother | Elen verch Thomas (1334 - 1343) |