MATHAFERN FAMILY
CHART VI
1020 Eunydd of Meirionydd[1]
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1050 Ednowain
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1080 Seisyllt
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1110 Einion[2]
1115 Sian[3]
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1140 Gronwy
Einion ap Rhys Goch 1105
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CHART I
1175 Tudor
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1210 Gronwy
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1240 Tudor[4]
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1270 Llewelyn
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1305 Ieuan Lloyd
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1340 Gruffudd===Arddun ferch Ieuan 1350
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III
1370 Dafydd Lloyd
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1400 Llewelyn
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1435 Dafydd Lloyd, bard
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1465 Marged====Roger Walcot, son of 1455
[5] John
Walcot, son of
Sir Philip Walcot
CHART I
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NOTES:
[1] This family is a junior cadet of the ruling family of Meirionydd and
descended from Meirion, the youngest son of Cunedda
[2] Einion ap Seisyllt of Meirionydd fell into disfavor with Cynan ap Owain
Gwynedd after the latter's death in 1170. He sought the protection of Owain Cyfeiliog king of Powys and married his
son to that king's daughter. Thereafter his lands, which bordered Cyfeiliog (and were only a small part of the cantref
of Meirionydd), were detached from the kingdom of Gwynedd and became a part of Powys
[3] The medieval pedigrees make Sian a daughter of Einion ap Seisyllt, but that
chronology fails by a full generation. She may have been his sister.
[4] Most pedigrees seem to date Einion 60 years later by omitting one pair
of the repeating names "Tudor ap Gronwy"
[5] Marged is cited as a daughter of Dafydd Lloyd, the bard of Mathafern,
who is incorrectly cited as "ap Llewelyn ap Gruffudd". That construction incorrectly omits an earlier Dafydd Lloyd who
was the grandfather of the bard. The latter was alive in 1485, but too old to join the battle of Bosworth, when he predicted
the victory of Henry Tudor over Richard III. Mathafarn was a town in Cynllaith named after an earlier manor of that
name erected by an ancestor of Dafydd Lloyd who acquired the land via marriage. Lloyd was NOT a surname; direct descendents
of the bard adopted the surname PUGH after Dafydd's grandson Huw. The name is an elided "ap Huw". Lloyd was simply
a nickname meaning "gray"
SOURCES:
[1] Dwnn ii, 23 & Dwnn i, 295 for ancestry of Einion ap Seisyllt
[2] Dwnn i, 295 for marriage of Gruffudd ap Ieuan Lloyd
[3] Dwnn i, 111; Visitation of Shropshire of 1623, pp 477 for marriage of Marged
ferch Dafydd Lloyd
