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Einion ap Seisyll, arglwydd of Meirionydd

Male Abt 1170 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Einion ap Seisyll   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Suffix arglwydd of Meirionydd 
    Born Abt 1170  of, Mathafarn, Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened {Tribe: Seisyll of Meirionydd} Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I100003907  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 28 May 2008 

    Father Seisyll, arglwydd of Meirionydd,   b. Abt 1130, of, Meirionydd cantref, Merionethshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Isabel ferch Bradwen,   b. Abt 1130, of, , Merionethshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F100003232  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Nest ferch Madog,   b. Abt 1200, of, Nannau, Llanfachreth, Merionethshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. Margred ferch Einion,   b. Abt 1200, of, Mathafarn, Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Gronwy ab Einion, arglwydd of Mathafarn,   b. Abt 1200, of, Mathafarn, Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2007 
    Family ID F100003231  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • (Research):KINSHIP: Investigate> Dwnn's 'Heraldic Visitations of Wales' volume 2 page 101 states he had three sons and 2 daughters.
    • RESIDENCE: Mathafarn. (Shropshire Genealogies-JM)
      PROPERTY: Lord of Meirionydd. (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 6 p. 36)
      PROPERTY: By an inquisition held at Bala before Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Justice of North Wales, the next Monday after the festival of St. Michael, 6 Henry VI, it was found that Einion in the time of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, had all the lands between the Dovi and th Dewlas, and held the Lordship of Meirionydd in capite, from the sons of Cynan ab Owain "Gwynedd". (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 6 p. 36)

      REMARKS: In Wales till the middle of the 12th century individuals were styled 'Arglwydd' meaning lord or master.
      REMARKS: "For a legend concerning Einion ap Seisyll see MC1.255-6 and a comment in HW 749 n. 174." (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies - Additions and Corrections 300-1400, 7th List, p. 9 Seisyll 1 fn. 3)
      REMARKS: A elegy to him written by the bard Iorwerth "Cyriog" can be found, written in Welsh, on pages 349-350 of 'Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog' volume 1.

  • Sources 
    1. [S100000328] WG 300-1400 - 7th List, Bartrum, Peter C., (Aberystwyth. Lyfrgell Genedlaethold Cymru / The National Library of Wales. 2002.), FHL 942.9 D2bp supp. 7., p. 9.

    2. [S100000673] #1079 A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time (1904-1993), Bradney, Sir Joseph Alfred, (Publications of the South Wales Record Society, number 8. Five volumes in 13. London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1904-1993), FHL book 942.43 H2b., vol. 2 p. 209*.

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    4. [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. 1 p. 349; vol. 4 p. 267; vol. 6 p. 36*, 224, 267.

    5. [S100002411] #11915 British Genealogy (filmed 1950), Evans, Alcwyn Caryni, (Books A to H. National Library of Wales MSS 12359-12360D. Manuscript filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950), FHL microfilms 104,355 and 104,390 item 2., book 1 p. 77; book 7 p. G23.

    6. [S100002416] #12627 Genealogy of Shropshire [by Joseph Morris] (filmed 1966), Morris, Joseph, (10 volumes. Manuscript filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966), vol. 1-2 FHL microfilm 504,551; vol.3-4 FHL microf., vol. 2 p. 816; vol. 4 p. 1957; vol. 6 p. 3135; vol. 7 p. 3425.

    7. [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. 1 p. 39, 291, 295*, 299*, 306*; vol. 2 p. 69, 101, 241.

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