Morgan Fychan
Morgan Fychan († 1288 ) was a lord of the Welsh rule Afan .
Morgan Fychan was a younger son of Morgan Gam , the lord of Afan, a small lordship in the Glamorgan highlands . The Welsh epithet Fychan means the younger . After Morgan Gam's death in 1241, Morgan Fychan's older brother Lleision inherited the rule. He died before 1262, after which Morgan Fychan became Lord of Afan. After Gilbert de Clare , the Lord of Glamorgan, occupied the neighboring Welsh rule Senghenydd in 1267 and drove the Welsh lord there, Afan also came under greater pressure from Clare, who was the supreme lieutenant of Afan. Morgan Fychan supported, in contrast to his brother, the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd , who claimed supremacy for the Welsh rule in Glamorgan. It is possible that Morgan Fychan was temporarily expelled from his rule because in 1282 he is only referred to as lord of a small area in Baglan .
Morgan had married a daughter of the Anglo-Norman nobleman Walter de Sully in 1276 . He left several sons, including:
- Lleision († 1328)
- Rhys
After his death, his son Lleision took over the rule of Afan, which developed into a feudal rule under English rule during his rule. He anglicized his name in de Avene . Morgan's younger son Rhys inherited the Baglan estate. He is considered the progenitor of the Mackworth and William families in Aberpergwm.
Web links
- Thomas Jones Pierce: MORGAN FYCHAN (d. 1288) (Dictionary of Welsh Biography, The National Library of Wales)
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 134
- ^ David Walker: Medieval Wales . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990. ISBN 0-521-31153-5 , p. 32
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| SURNAME | Morgan Fychan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lord of Afan (South Wales) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1288 |