Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameEdnyfed Fychan AP CYNWRIG Lord Of Brynffenigl, 22G Grandfather
MotherAngharad VCH HWFA
Spouses
1Tangwystyl* VCH LLYWARCH, 23G Grandmother
FatherLlywarch Goch AP IORWERTH Lord Of Rhos (~1139-)
MotherTangwistyl VCH LLYWARCH (~1143-)
ChildrenTudor* (~1195-1278)
2Gwenllian VCH RHYS, 22G Grandmother
FatherRhys AP GRUFFYDD Prince Of South Wales (~1132-1197)
MotherGwenllian VCH MADOG (~1131-)
Web Notes notes for Ednyfed Fychan AP CYNWRIG Lord Of Brynffenigl
From the book History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn by Mostyn and T.A. Glenn, London, 1925, page 14:
Iorwerth Hên ap Owain [another ancestor] was the contemporary of Ednyfed Fychan, the great seneschal of Prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth; and the conduct of affairs in Wales during Llywelyn's reign must have rested largely in the hands of these two able ministers.
Ednyfed Vychan, Chief Counsellor, Chief Justice, and General of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, King of North Wales, was one of the most prominent historical characters of the period. Commanding in the wars between Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, and John, King of England, he attacked the army of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and obtaining a signal victory, killed three chief captains and commanders of the enemy, whose heads he laid at the feet of his sovereign. For this exploit he had conferred on him new armorial ensigns emblematic of the achievement, which continue to be borne by the Lloyds of Plymog, and other families derived from him, viz., "Gu., between three Englishmen's heads, in profile, couped at the neck, ppr., bearded and crined, sa., a chevron, ermine." An elegy to this powerful noble, by Elidyr Sais, who lived 1160-1220, is published in the Mivyrian Archaeology (London, 8vo., 1801, vol. i. p. 346). 70
EDNYFED FYCHAN ( EDNYFED ap CYNWRIG ) and his descendants . Ednyfed ap Cynwrig (d. 1246 ), claiming descent from Marchudd , was a member of one of a group of kindreds long settled in Rhos and Rhufoniog . As seneschal (in Welsh, distain ) of Gwynedd c. 1215-1246 ( Hist. W. , ii, 684-5), his political and military services to Llywelyn the Great were rewarded, not only by the grant to Ednyfed himself of bond vills in Anglesey , Nantconwy , Arllechwedd Uchaf , and Creuddyn , but also by the concession, made to all the descendants of Ednyfed's grandfather ( Iorwerth ap Gwrgan ) that they should for the future hold their lands throughout Wales free from all dues and services other than military service in time of war. This special tenure, known as that of ‘Ŵyrion Eden,’ is prominent in the 14th cent. in the lordship of Denbigh amongst the collateral branches of the family ( Survey of Denbigh . lv, 297, 303; Ellis , Tribal Law and Custom , i, 113), Ednyfed 's own descendants in the same period are found in the townships of Trecastell, Penmynydd, Erddreiniog, Clorach , Gwredog , Trysglwyn , and Tregarnedd in Anglesey, and in Crewyrion, Creuddyn, Gloddaeth, Dinorwig, and Cwmllannerch in Caerns. ( Rec. Caern. , passim ). They are also found in Llansadwrn in Carms. and at Llechwedd-llwyfan , Cellan , and Rhyd-onnen in Cards. ( Cal. Pat. Rolls , 1225-32 , 271; Carm. Hist. , i, 178; Cal. Fine Rolls , 1327-37 , 304; Cal. Inquisitions , vii, no. 418; Bridgeman , Princes of South Wales , 264). Even before the conquest of 1282, therefore, Ednyfed's immediate descendants formed a ‘ministerial aristocracy’ of considerable wealth, and their widespread possessions, combined with the favourable terms on which they were held, made them the forerunners of that class of Welsh squires whose emergence is characteristic of the post-conquest period.
Iorwerth Hên ap Owain [another ancestor] was the contemporary of Ednyfed Fychan, the great seneschal of Prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth; and the conduct of affairs in Wales during Llywelyn's reign must have rested largely in the hands of these two able ministers.
Ednyfed Vychan, Chief Counsellor, Chief Justice, and General of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, King of North Wales, was one of the most prominent historical characters of the period. Commanding in the wars between Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, and John, King of England, he attacked the army of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and obtaining a signal victory, killed three chief captains and commanders of the enemy, whose heads he laid at the feet of his sovereign. For this exploit he had conferred on him new armorial ensigns emblematic of the achievement, which continue to be borne by the Lloyds of Plymog, and other families derived from him, viz., "Gu., between three Englishmen's heads, in profile, couped at the neck, ppr., bearded and crined, sa., a chevron, ermine." An elegy to this powerful noble, by Elidyr Sais, who lived 1160-1220, is published in the Mivyrian Archaeology (London, 8vo., 1801, vol. i. p. 346). 70
EDNYFED FYCHAN ( EDNYFED ap CYNWRIG ) and his descendants . Ednyfed ap Cynwrig (d. 1246 ), claiming descent from Marchudd , was a member of one of a group of kindreds long settled in Rhos and Rhufoniog . As seneschal (in Welsh, distain ) of Gwynedd c. 1215-1246 ( Hist. W. , ii, 684-5), his political and military services to Llywelyn the Great were rewarded, not only by the grant to Ednyfed himself of bond vills in Anglesey , Nantconwy , Arllechwedd Uchaf , and Creuddyn , but also by the concession, made to all the descendants of Ednyfed's grandfather ( Iorwerth ap Gwrgan ) that they should for the future hold their lands throughout Wales free from all dues and services other than military service in time of war. This special tenure, known as that of ‘Ŵyrion Eden,’ is prominent in the 14th cent. in the lordship of Denbigh amongst the collateral branches of the family ( Survey of Denbigh . lv, 297, 303; Ellis , Tribal Law and Custom , i, 113), Ednyfed 's own descendants in the same period are found in the townships of Trecastell, Penmynydd, Erddreiniog, Clorach , Gwredog , Trysglwyn , and Tregarnedd in Anglesey, and in Crewyrion, Creuddyn, Gloddaeth, Dinorwig, and Cwmllannerch in Caerns. ( Rec. Caern. , passim ). They are also found in Llansadwrn in Carms. and at Llechwedd-llwyfan , Cellan , and Rhyd-onnen in Cards. ( Cal. Pat. Rolls , 1225-32 , 271; Carm. Hist. , i, 178; Cal. Fine Rolls , 1327-37 , 304; Cal. Inquisitions , vii, no. 418; Bridgeman , Princes of South Wales , 264). Even before the conquest of 1282, therefore, Ednyfed's immediate descendants formed a ‘ministerial aristocracy’ of considerable wealth, and their widespread possessions, combined with the favourable terms on which they were held, made them the forerunners of that class of Welsh squires whose emergence is characteristic of the post-conquest period.