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Gwilym ap Griffith
Bornc. late 14th century
Died1431
OccupationLandowner
Spouse(s)Morfudd ferch Goronwy
Joan

Gwilym ap Griffith (died 1431), also known as Gwilym ap Gruffydd, was a Welsh landowner. He briefly lent his support to Owain Glyndŵr in the Glyndŵr Rising. When his loyalty returned to the Crown, he was granted the lands of number of Glyndŵr supporters and by the end of his life had ownership of the majority of the lands previously held by the Tudors of Penmynydd.

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Gwilym ap Griffith (died 1431), also known as Gwilym ap Gruffydd, was a Welsh landowner. He briefly lent his support to Owain Glyndŵr in the Glyndŵr Rising...

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another branch of Ednyfed Fychan's lineage, the Griffiths of Penrhyn, whose head, Gwilym ap Griffith, had married Goronwy's daughter, Morfydd. The family...

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Tudur ap Goronwy

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having six sons: Goronwy ap Tudur Rhys ap Tudur (by Mallt) Ednyfed ap Tudur Gwilym ap Tudur Rhys ap Tudur (by Marged) Maredudd ap Tudur All rose to positions...

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Maredudd ap Tudur

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Tudur ap Goronwy and Marged ferch Tomos (a descendant of Llywelyn Fawr); alongside Ednyfed ap Tudor, Rhys ap Tudur, Goronwy ap Tudor and Gwilym ap Tudur...

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Dafydd ap Gwilym

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Gwilym ap Tudur

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Gwilym ap Tudur (died 1413) was a Welsh nobleman and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. In 1401, he and his brother Rhys ap Tudur took Conwy Castle...

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House of Tudor

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Richmond. It was his father, Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Ednyfed Fychan), who abandoned the Welsh patronymic...

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Rhys ap Tudur

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five sons of Tudur ap Goronwy and Marged ferch Tomos; alongside Ednyfed ap Tudor, Maredudd ap Tudur, Goronwy ap Tudor and Gwilym ap Tudur. Tudur had served...

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Penrhyn Castle

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was founded by Ednyfed Fychan. In the 15th century his descendant Gwilym ap Griffith built a fortified manor house on the site. In the 18th century, the...

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Goronwy ap Tudur Hen

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Goronwy ap Tudur Hen (died 1331), also known as Goronwy ap Tudur or Goronwy Fychan, was a Welsh aristocrat and Lord of Penmynydd. He was a member of the...

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Goronwy ab Ednyfed

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was seneschal to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, king of Gwynedd. Goronwy was the founder of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. Goronwy ap Ednyfed was one of the sons...

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Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd

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Offeiriad, and memorialized in poems by his cousin Dafydd ap Gwilym, and by Iolo Goch. Griffiths Jones Pierce Tout, 89-90 Tout, 109 Green, 135 Morgan, 394...

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Dafydd ap Gwilym Society

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The Dafydd ap Gwilym Society is the Welsh society at the University of Oxford. It is a Welsh language society, as opposed to a society of Welsh people...

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Carreglwyd

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nearby Caernarfonshire, in North Wales. Gwilym ap Griffith (d. 1431) of Penrhyn married the daughter of Goronwy ap Tudur of the Tudors of Penmynydd family...

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Rhys Gruffydd

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of the Griffiths of Penrhyn, chamberlain of Wales, and his wife, Sian Stradling. He was paternal descendant of Welsh magnate Gwilym ap Griffith. Rhys was...

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Gwilym Tew

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another poet of the same family, Rhisiart ap Rhys, was his nephew. Williams, Griffith John (1959). "Gwilym Tew". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National...

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Slate industry in Wales

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neighbourhood of the later Penrhyn Quarry was in 1413, when a rent-roll of Gwilym ap Griffith records that several of his tenants were paid 10 pence each for working...

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Tudur Hen

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Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan

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lords of Caeo and Cilycwm. Llewelyn's (probable) grandson, Llewelyn ap Gwilym ap Llewelyn, was said by Edward Lhuyd to have lived at the mansion of Neuadd...

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Rhys ap Thomas

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the Cloth of Gold. Rhys was married twice: to Eva, daughter of Henri ap Gwilym of Cwrt Henri; and to Janet, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, who was...

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The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English

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Coslett Coslett Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr Dafydd ab Edmwnd Dafydd ab Gwilym Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd Dafydd Benfras Dafydd Nanmor Edward Davies Gareth...

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The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse

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Euros Bowen, Geraint Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr Dafydd ab Edmwnd Dafydd ap Gwilym Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd Dafydd Llwyd Dafydd Nanmor Davies, Eirian Davies...

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Ednyfed Fychan

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Fychan, married firstly Sir Aron ap Rhys, Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and married secondly Gwrwared ap Gwilym. Out of wedlock, he had by an...

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Iolo Morganwg

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notice in 1789 for Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, a collection of the poetry of the 14th-century Dafydd ap Gwilym. Included were a large number of hitherto...

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Tudur ap Gruffudd

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during the Glyndŵr rebellion, were Gwilym ap Tudur and Rhys ap Tudur, who famously seized Conwy Castle, and Maredudd ap Tudur, the father of Sir Owen Tudor...

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Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam

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some genealogists claim Dafydd's wife to have been Gwladys, daughter of Gwilym ap Hywel Crach. (1374–6). On 16 September 1400, Owain Glyndŵr instigated...

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