Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameIorwerth Hên Of Pengwern AP OWAIN, 24G Grandfather
FatherOwain AP BLEDDYN (-~1200)
MotherEfa VCH MADOG
Web Notes notes for Iorwerth Hên Of Pengwern AP OWAIN
Iorwerth Hên (that is to say, Iorwerth the elder) of Pengwern, son of Owain, son of Bleddyn (1) son of Tudur, son of Rhys Sais, was born, in all probability, close to the year 1170, or perhaps a little later.
Nanheudwy, with the remainder of Northern Powys, passed into the hands of Prince Madog, the son of Maredydd, who died in 1159. Gruffydd Maelor, Madog's son, came into most of his father's territory, and dying in his castle of Dinas Bran, Llangollen, was buried at Meivod, in 1191. Gruffydd left two sons, Madog and Owain. The latter dying in 1197, the whole of Northern Powys became vested in Madog.
"Chief of Llywelyn's Northern vassals," says Professor Lloyd in his History of Wales, [pages 683-4] was Madog ap Gruffydd, whose lands stretched from the Tanat to the outskirts of Chester, the founder of Valle Crucis, the lord of Overton Castle, towering on its cliff above the beautiful, sinuous course of the Dee. From the Peace of Worcester until his death in 1236, when he was laid to rest in the abbey he had endowed, Madog was unswervingly faithful to his great chief and his fidelity, with the friendship of the Earls of Chester, put Llywelyn at his ease as to the security of his eastern border as far south as the rock of Carreghofa."
The seneschal and chief councillor of Prince Madog was the Lord Iorwerth of Pengwern, "the stag.”
(1) Mostyn MS. pedigree 1663; Dwnn, ii., p. 307; N.L.W. MS 1654 B., fo. 311; Harl. MS. 4181; Thos. Salusbury MS. (1631), xiv., fo. 57 dorso (N.L.W. MS. 1554 A). The latter MS. gives the pedigree thus: "Iorwerth foel ap Iorwerth fychan ap vychan Iorwerth ap Owain ap bleddyn ap tudor ap rees sais ap Ednyfed ap Llowarch gam ap lluddoka ap tuddor trefor," which agrees with all other MS. genealogies of this family.
Iorwerth, under the designation of Iorwerth senescallo D'ni Madoci, is witness to a charter by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd to Valle Crucus, dated 1234 (1); and as Gervasio (Iorwerth) senescallo meo, to a charter of Prince Madog's son, Gruffydd, dated 1236 (2). The office appears to have been hereditary, for his son, Iorwerth Fychan, and his grandson, Iorwerth Foel, at Dinas Bran, witnessed charters of Madog's son and grandsons. Iorwerth Hên was advanced in years when Prince Madog died, and was dead, no doubt, before 1254. The likelihood is that he was buried at Valle Crucis.
Iorwerth Hên married Angharad, one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Gruffydd ap Meilyr of Eyton, ap Elidyr ap Rhys Sais, descended from Tudur Trefor (and therefore his kinswoman), by whom he had issue (3): Iorwerth Fychan, Meilyr, Rhys, Gruffydd, Dafydd, Ynyr? (6), and Dyddgu, wife of Ieuan, son of Gruffydd of the line of the Lord Rhys, last Prince of South Wales.
(1) Cited in inspeximus charter, Arch. Camb., 1848, p. 415. Iorwerth has hitherto been wrongly identified.
(2) Cited in Hist. Powys Fadog, i., p. 168.
(3) Harl. MS. 4181, fol. 135D; Hist. Powys Fadog, i. p. 313; Dwnn, ii., p. 307. The latter authority, however, gives only Iorwerth Fychan, Meilyr, Rhys, Gruffydd, and Davydd.
(6) Among the witnesses to the charter of 1254 is a brother of the above Gruffydd whose name appears as [unreadable], which is certainly not intended for Henricus; but if correctly transcribed, may stand for Ener, for Ynyr.
Nanheudwy, with the remainder of Northern Powys, passed into the hands of Prince Madog, the son of Maredydd, who died in 1159. Gruffydd Maelor, Madog's son, came into most of his father's territory, and dying in his castle of Dinas Bran, Llangollen, was buried at Meivod, in 1191. Gruffydd left two sons, Madog and Owain. The latter dying in 1197, the whole of Northern Powys became vested in Madog.
"Chief of Llywelyn's Northern vassals," says Professor Lloyd in his History of Wales, [pages 683-4] was Madog ap Gruffydd, whose lands stretched from the Tanat to the outskirts of Chester, the founder of Valle Crucis, the lord of Overton Castle, towering on its cliff above the beautiful, sinuous course of the Dee. From the Peace of Worcester until his death in 1236, when he was laid to rest in the abbey he had endowed, Madog was unswervingly faithful to his great chief and his fidelity, with the friendship of the Earls of Chester, put Llywelyn at his ease as to the security of his eastern border as far south as the rock of Carreghofa."
The seneschal and chief councillor of Prince Madog was the Lord Iorwerth of Pengwern, "the stag.”
(1) Mostyn MS. pedigree 1663; Dwnn, ii., p. 307; N.L.W. MS 1654 B., fo. 311; Harl. MS. 4181; Thos. Salusbury MS. (1631), xiv., fo. 57 dorso (N.L.W. MS. 1554 A). The latter MS. gives the pedigree thus: "Iorwerth foel ap Iorwerth fychan ap vychan Iorwerth ap Owain ap bleddyn ap tudor ap rees sais ap Ednyfed ap Llowarch gam ap lluddoka ap tuddor trefor," which agrees with all other MS. genealogies of this family.
Iorwerth, under the designation of Iorwerth senescallo D'ni Madoci, is witness to a charter by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd to Valle Crucus, dated 1234 (1); and as Gervasio (Iorwerth) senescallo meo, to a charter of Prince Madog's son, Gruffydd, dated 1236 (2). The office appears to have been hereditary, for his son, Iorwerth Fychan, and his grandson, Iorwerth Foel, at Dinas Bran, witnessed charters of Madog's son and grandsons. Iorwerth Hên was advanced in years when Prince Madog died, and was dead, no doubt, before 1254. The likelihood is that he was buried at Valle Crucis.
Iorwerth Hên married Angharad, one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Gruffydd ap Meilyr of Eyton, ap Elidyr ap Rhys Sais, descended from Tudur Trefor (and therefore his kinswoman), by whom he had issue (3): Iorwerth Fychan, Meilyr, Rhys, Gruffydd, Dafydd, Ynyr? (6), and Dyddgu, wife of Ieuan, son of Gruffydd of the line of the Lord Rhys, last Prince of South Wales.
(1) Cited in inspeximus charter, Arch. Camb., 1848, p. 415. Iorwerth has hitherto been wrongly identified.
(2) Cited in Hist. Powys Fadog, i., p. 168.
(3) Harl. MS. 4181, fol. 135D; Hist. Powys Fadog, i. p. 313; Dwnn, ii., p. 307. The latter authority, however, gives only Iorwerth Fychan, Meilyr, Rhys, Gruffydd, and Davydd.
(6) Among the witnesses to the charter of 1254 is a brother of the above Gruffydd whose name appears as [unreadable], which is certainly not intended for Henricus; but if correctly transcribed, may stand for Ener, for Ynyr.