Madog ap Gruffydd

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Madog ap Gruffydd († 1277 ) was a lord of the Welsh principality of Powys Fadog .

He was the eldest son of Gruffydd Maelor ap Madog . To strengthen his father's alliance with Llywelyn ap Gruffydd , he married Llywelyn's sister Margaret around 1257. After his father died in 1269 and his brothers Hywel and Madog shortly afterwards without male descendants, he concluded an agreement with his three brothers Llywelyn, Owain and Gruffydd Fychan at Dinas Bran Castle in 1270 , in which they divided Powys Fadog among themselves. Madog became Lord of Maelor, Gruffydd Lord of Iâl, Llywelyn received an area south of the Dee and Owain received Bangor Iscoed. By sharing the estate and the widow's seat Overtonhad their mother confirmed by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, it becomes clear that they were not independent princes, but vassals dependent on Gwynedd . The four brothers submitted during the Anglo-Welsh War of 1277 to the English King Edward I. Madog died shortly afterwards.

He left two young sons, Gruffydd and Llywelyn. His untimely death led to inheritance disputes between his three brothers over his land and over the widowhood of his mother and widow. According to tradition, his two underage sons were drowned at Holt im Dee during the Anglo-Welsh War of 1282 at the instigation of the English barons John de Warenne and Roger Mortimer of Chirk . Madog's reign, Maelor and Iâl, became the new English barony of Bromfield and Yale after the English conquest in 1283, which was awarded to John de Warenne.

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  1. ^ John Edward Lloyd: A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest . Vol. 2. Longmans, Green and Co., London 1912, pp. 747f
personal data
SURNAME Madog ap Gruffydd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor; Madog from Gruffydd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Powys (Wales)
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1277