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Gruffudd ab Iorwerth

Male Abt 1230 - Aft 1288  (59 years)


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  • Name Gruffudd ab Iorwerth   [1, 2, 3, 4
    Born Abt 1230  of, Cymer, Llangar, Merionethshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened {Tribe: Bleddyn ap Cynfyn} Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 1288 
    Person ID I100003656  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Oct 2004 

    Father Iorwerth ab Owain "Brogyntyn", arglwydd of Cymer and Llangar,   b. Abt 1170, of, Cymer, Llangar, Merionethshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Efa ferch Madog,   b. Abt 1200, of, Mawddwy commote, Montgomeryshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F100002846  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Gwenllian ferch Dafydd "Gôch",   b. Abt 1300, of, , Caernarvonshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Last Modified 27 Aug 2002 
    Family ID F100003022  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • DISTINCTION: Esquire. (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations of Wales, vol. 2 p. 125)

      LIVING: 1200. (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations of Wales, vol. 2 p. 125)
      LIVING: 1258. (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 300-1400, vol. 2 p. 52)
      LIVING: He was compelled with others to submit to Edward I and received in 1284 from that Monarch a pardon and grant of confirmation to hold his lands "per Baroniam". (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations of Wales, vol. 2 p. 250b fn. 1)
      PROPERTY: He succeeded his father as second Baron of Cymmer. (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 6 p. 43)

      REMARKS: Baron has the same signification a landed proprietor, and equivalent to 'Lord' in Welsh pedigrees. (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations of Wales, vol. 2 p. 340)

  • Sources 
    1. [S100000712] #1039 Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families: with Their Collateral Branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire (1914), Griffith, John Edwards, (Horncastle, England: W.K. Morton, 1914), FHL book Folio 942.9 D2gr; FHL microfilm 468,334., p. 220.

    2. [S100001800] #771 The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fodog and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd (1881-1887), Lloyd, Jacob Youde William, (6 volumes. London: T. Richards, 1881-1887), FHL book 942.9 D2L; FHL microfilms 990,213-990,214., vol. 6 p. 43*, 103.

    3. [S100002434] #2105 Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches Between the Years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn (1846), Dwnn, Lewys; transcribed and edited with notes by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, (2 volumes. Llandovery: William Rees, 1846), FHL book 942.9 D23d; FHL microfilm 176,668., vol. 2 p. 109*, 111*, 124, 125*, 250*.

    4. [S100002437] #4568 Welsh Genealogies, AD 300-1400 (1980), Bartrum, Peter C. (Peter Clement), (25 volumes, with supplements containing additions and corrections. [Wales]: University of Wales Press, 1980), FHL book 942.9 D2bp; FHL microfiche 6025561., vol. 2 p. 51, 52*; vol. 7 p. 447.