Gruffudd Dwnn

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Gruffudd Dwnn (also Griffith Dwnn) (* around 1385, † around 1448) was a Welsh nobleman and soldier.

origin

Dwnn came from the old Welsh Dwnn family who were among the leading families in Kidwelly . His father Maredudd Dwnn probably died around 1401.

Life

Dwnn supported his grandfather Henry Dwnn in the unsuccessful siege of Kidwelly Castle during the Owain Glyndŵr Rebellion in 1403 . After the failure of the rebellion, he was pardoned like his grandfather in 1413, but still had to pay off the heavy fine that had been imposed on his grandfather. During the Hundred Years' War in 1415 he took part in the campaign of King Henry V in France and in the Battle of Agincourt . 1421 he received from Parliament as Welsh in England and in English the privilege boroughs to acquire in Wales property. During the war with France he was Lieutenant of Cherbourg in 1424 , Captain of Charentonne in 1437 and of Tancarville in 1438 . In Wales he was sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1426 and from 1432 to 1435 . In 1430 he became constable of Kidwelly Castle and deputy of his father-in-law Sir John Scudamore as constable of Carmarthen Castle . As steward, he was to investigate mismanagement in Talley Abbey and later in Carmarthen Priory . During the further fighting in France he led a Welsh force during the siege of Harfleur in 1440 , which defeated a French relief army and took its leader Raoul de Gaucourt prisoner, which led to the fall of the city. From 1441 to 1442 he was in Lisieux and in 1443 in Neufchâtel . In 1445 he was taken prisoner himself at Dieppe and released by Sir Walter Devereux for 400 golden saluts d'or .

Despite his long military service, he was still supposed to pay his grandfather's sentence in 1439; the sentence was not released until 1445. Richard of York transferred to him in 1437 possessions at Alençon and later the rule of Arqueville and the fiefs of Ortier and Fervaques in Normandy . In Wales he acquired the Traean lordship with parts of the town of St Clears . In 1445 he served Richard of York as Usk's steward . At times he worked as a trader who imported red wine from Gascony to Carmarthen with his own ship, Le George . After 1446 he is no longer mentioned, the exact year of his death is unknown, but he was buried in Kidwelly Church.

Family and offspring

He married Joan (Janet) Scudamore, a daughter of John Scudamore . He had several children, including four sons:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Holmes: Donne, Sir John (d.1503). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004, accessed February 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ John Kenyon: Kidwelly Castle . Cadw, Cardiff 2007. ISBN 978-1-85760-256-2 . P. 19
  3. ^ RR Davies: The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19-820508-2 , p. 313
  4. ^ Ralph A. Griffiths: The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages: The Structure and Personnel of Government. I. South Wales, 1277-1536 . University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1972. p. 201
personal data
SURNAME Dwnn, Gruffudd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Don, Griffith; Dunn, Gruffudd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh nobleman, military and rebel
DATE OF BIRTH around 1385
DATE OF DEATH around 1448