Gruffydd Fychan

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Gruffydd Fychan (Gruffydd the Younger; actually Gruffydd ap Gruffydd Maelor) († 1289 ) was a Welsh lord from the Powys kingdom . He was the youngest of the four sons of Gruffydd Maelor ap Madog . After the death of his father in 1269, he made an agreement with his older brothers Madog , Llywelyn and Owain at Dinas Bran Castle in 1270 , in which they divided the kingdom among themselves. His part was Iâl and Edeirnion . In early 1277 he quickly submitted to the English king during King Edward I's first campaign against Wales and was allowed to keep Iâl under English rule, while he remained a vassal of the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd for Edeirnion .

Gruffydd, along with his brother Llywelyn, belonged to the Welsh contingent that captured and sacked the English town of Oswestry in Shropshire on Palm Sunday 1282 . Despite this breach of loyalty to the English king, he was not expropriated like most other Welsh lords after the conquest of Wales in 1283 , but was allowed to take over Gruffydd's possessions in Iâl on the intercession of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey , who was the new lord of Yale had kept his property in Glyndyfrdwy as a vassal in the now English Merionethshire . His heir and successor was his son Madog. He inherited the Cynllaith rule from the descendants of Owain Fychan around 1300 , he was the great-grandfather of Owain Glyndŵr .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony David Carr: An aristocracy in decline. The native Welsh Lords after the Edwardian conquest . In: Welsh History Review 5 (1970/71), p. 108
  2. ^ John E. Lloyd: Owain Glyn Dwr: His Family and early history . In: Transactions of the honorable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1918/19, p. 131
personal data
SURNAME Gruffydd Fychan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruffydd ap Gruffydd Maelor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Powys (Wales)
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1289