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HOW
BARTRUM 'LOST' HYWEL ap GRUFFUDD ap IFOR BACH
By Darrell Wolcott
This paper outlines our investigation into how Peter Bartrum wholly ignored the existence of a family descended
from Ifor Bach of Senghenydd when preparing his chart "Cydrich 2". While there IS a well-known family headed by a Hywel
Felyn ap Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach, there is NO clear evidence that he had a son named Llewelyn. [1]
THE INDEX PROBLEM:
In his indexes, Bartrum lists a "Generation 7" (circa 1230) man called Llewelyn ap Hywel Felyn
ap Gruffudd. He lists as his sources Dwnn ii, 50 and Llyfr Baglan 122. He also lists LB 74 and 228, plus
Bodleian Add. A281, 237 but marked those 3 citations as "corrupt".
Dwnn ii, 50 tells us Rhys ap Einion married Gwladys ferch Llewelyn ap Hywel Felyn. It
does not continue with the father of this Hywel Felyn, and thus does not support his index assertion that his father was named
Gruffudd.
LB 122 tells us Rhys ap Einion Sais married Gwladys ap Llewelyn ap Hywel Felyn of Senghenydd.
It then adds Hywel Felyn was son to Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach. It is clear to us (since it did not continue
with "ap") that the author of Llyfr Baglan presented a pedigree found among his sources, then added his own comment to the
pedigree. His comment is correct, there WAS a Hywel Felyn, son of Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach. But it wasn't THIS Hywel
Felyn.
We have access to the text of 2 of the 3 citations which Bartrum marked as "corrupt", and believe the 3rd citation
contained the same data which caused him to reject the other two. Both LB 74 and 228 tell us Rhys ap Einion
Sais married Gwladys ferch Llewelyn ap Hywel Felyn ap Hywel ap Gruffudd.
Bartrum did acknowledge that Llewelyn, and his daughter Gwladys, were born in his "Generation 7" and "Generation
8" respectively, but charted Llewelyn as the son of Hywel Felyn of "Generation 5" (circa 1170). This implies either a missing
name connecting Llewelyn to Hywel Felyn or asserts that a 70 year old Hywel Felyn had a son.
We concur that Rhys ap Einion Sais was born c. 1255 and that an age-appropriate wife for him would be born between
1255 and 1270 (Bartrum's Generation 8). When we present the pedigree citations of Gwladys in chart form, we have:
1135 Trahaearn ap Gwgan
Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach 1135
l
________l__________
l
l
l
1165 Hywel
1165 Hywel Felyn 1170 Hywel
l
l
l
1195 Rhys
1235 Llewelyn 1200 Hywel Felyn
l
l
l
1225 Einion Sais
l
1235 Llewelyn
l
l
l
1255 Rhys============Gwladys
1265 Gwladys
After reviewing the relevant citations, which presentation of the ancestry of Gwladys should we accept as correct?
I can't guess why Bartrum was so convinced there could only be a single Hywel Felyn in the family, but by his rejection of
the existence of a Hywel ap Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach, he missed the entire extended family which descended from him.
OUR CONCLUSION:
The Bartrum index entry for Llewelyn ap Hywel Felyn should have continued "ap Hywel". Of the 5 citations
he gave to support the name, 3 support "ap Hywel", 1 sort-of supports "ap Gruffudd" and the 5th is wholly silent on the matter.
OTHER EVIDENCE FOR
A HYWEL ap GRUFFUDD ap IFOR BACH:
In
our paper on Ifor Bach [2], we discussed in some detail the same-named cousin branches who descended from two men named
Madog ap Hywel Felyn. There was, in addition, one other son of Hywel ap Gruffudd, Einion ap Hywel. Had Bartrum not erred
in his presentation of Gwladys, he might well have discovered that Einion.
To his credit, Bartrum did locate, and mostly chart correctly, a same-named cousin line in a Brycheiniog family.
The string Ieuan ap Einion ap Hywel ap Gruffudd occurs in two families descended from Gruffudd Gwyr ap Cadifor
ap Gwgan ap Gwgan Blaidd Gwyrdd ap Bleddyn. Bartrum separated the two lines on his chart "Bleddyn ap Maenyrch 31" and
added a note calling attention to the identical string of names. Since those men were born 2 generations apart, he was
also able to assign 6 of the 9 children cited for an "Ieuan ap Einion ap Hywel ap Gruffudd" to the correct family, mostly
by the estimated birthdates of those children: [3]
1175
Gruffudd Gwyr
____________l__________________
l
l
1210 Gruffudd Fychan
1210 Hywel
l
l
1245 Gruffudd Fab
1240 Einion
l
l
1280 Hywel
1275 Ieuan
l
l
1310 Einion
4 children born c. 1310
l
3 children born c. 1270*
1345 Ieuan
l
2 children born c. 1375
*Bartrum dated three daughters to c.
1300 and matched them each with a husband that he dated c. 1270
The 3 daughters of a "Ieuan ap Einion ap Hywel ap Gruffudd", which Bartrum added to the family on the right in the
above chart, were:
(1) Gwerfyl (1270) who married Llewelyn Fychan (1260) ap Llewelyn (1230) ap Madog (1195) ap Hywel
Felyn (1165) ap Gruffudd (1135) ap Ifor Bach (1105) of Senghenydd [4]
(2) Efa (1270) who married Lleision (1260) ap Rhys (1225) ap Morgan Fychan (1195) ap Morgan Gam
(1165) ap Morgan, Lord of Afan (1135) ap Caradog (1105) ap Iestyn (1075) ap Gwrgan (1042) ap Ithel Ddu (1012) [5]
(3) Gwenllian (1275) who married Hywel of Senghenydd (1265) ap Ifor Fychan (1230) ap Ifor (1195) ap Cadrod
(1165) ap Einion (1130) ap Cadrod Mawr (1095) ap Einion (1065) ap Cadifor Fawr (1030) [6]
If Bartrum had charted a Hywel ap Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach, he might have noticed that two of these ladies married men
of Senghenydd and discovered that their father, Ieuan ap Einion ap Hywel ap Gruffudd, fit chronologically with a Hywel
ap Gruffudd of Senghenydd:
1105 Ifor Bach
l
1135 Gruffudd
l
1170 Hywel
l
1205 Einion
l
1235 Ieuan
l
3
daughters 1270/75
Notes:
[1]
Bartrum also charted a Generation 7 daughter, Gwenllian, for the Generation 5 Hywel Felyn. Both children belong to a
Generation 6 Hywel Felyn
[2]
See this family in our Ifor Bach paper at the link below:
[3] Some
of these children were cited as having descended from Gruffudd Gwyr and others descended from Gruffudd Fab. It may have
been that difference which influenced Bartrum to make his parental assignments
[4]
Glam. 112 calls the lady Gwladys; Harl 3525, 29 and Harl 2300(2), 177 make her an unnamed daughter of Ieuan ap Einion
[5]
Dwnn i, 95; Pen 132, 129; and Harl 2414, 2 all cite this marriage
[6]
Glam. 48
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