MATHAFARN 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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1145 Gronwy
Einion ap Rhys Goch 1105
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CHART I
1175 Tudor
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1210 Llewelyn
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1240 Ieuan Llwyd
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1275 Gruffudd
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1305 Llewelyn
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1335 Dafydd Llwyd
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1370 Ieuan
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1400 Huw
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1430 Dafydd Lloyd, bard
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1455
1465 Marged====Roger Walcot, son of
[4] John
Walcot, son of
Sir Philip Walcot
CHART I
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NOTES:
[1] This family was 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] Marged is cited as a daughter of Dafydd Lloyd, the bard of Mathafarn,
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 manor near Machynlleth named after an earlier
manor of that name erected by an ancestor of Dafydd Lloyd. Lloyd was NOT a surname; direct descendents of the bard adopted
the surname PUGH after Dafydd's descendant, Huw ap Ieuan. 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
