#12 - BRAINT HIR
Bartrum present the following
suggested pedigree:
"Braint hir ap Nevydd ap Geraint
ap Garanawc (ap) Glewddigar ap Kynwas ap Rychwin varfoc ap Helic ap Glanawc"
His note to the pedigree
reads:
"This is an extension of HL
11. The extension is achieved by misidentifying Rhychwyn Farfog of Bod Rhywchwyn in Rhos Is Dulas with Rychwyn, the
saint of Llanrhchwyn in Nant Conwy, who is made a son of Helig ap Glannog in some versions of Bonedd y Saint #42."
While Bartrum's suggestion correctly
detaches the "ap Heilig ap Glannog" from the pedigree, he offers no alternate ancestry for Braint Hir. The Nant Conwy
Rychwyn WAS a son of Heilig ap Glannog, was born c. 985 and was the ancestor of Nefydd Hardd of c. 1105. But the Rychwyn
in the pedigree of Braint Hir occurs much earlier and was probably a younger son of one of the men in the pedigree found in
Harleian Ms 3859, 3. That was the ruling Rhos family descended from Cynglas ap Owain Ddantgwyn; its senior branch did
include Heilig ap Glannog but not Braint Hir.
We examined the ancestry of
Braint Hir at length in our paper "The Medieval Redating of Braint Hir" and suggest the family chart looks like this:
385 Cunedda
l
415 Einion Yrth
l
447 Owain Ddantgwyn
l
480 Cynglas
l
515 Meig
l
545 Cyngen
l
575 Cadwallon Crisban
l
610 Idgwyn
l
640 Einion
l
675 Rhufon
_______________l______________
l
l
705 Meirion 715
Rychwyn Farfog
l
l
740 Caradog, obit 798
750 Cynwas
l
l
780 Hywel, obit 825
785 Caranog Glewddigar
l
l
815 Caradog Freich Fras[1]
815 Geraint
l
l
850 Gwgan Gleddyfrudd
850 Nefydd
l
l
885 Gwaithfoed
880 Braint Hir[2]
l
915 Glannog
l
950 Heilig
