110 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF MAREDUDD AB BLEDDYN, PRINCE OF POWYS. = Maredudd Hên. Angharad, d. of Gruffydd ab Llywelyn. Ieuan of Hywel ab Cynan ab Tud- T Blodwel. Jane, ux. Rhirid Foel, jure uxoris of Blodwel. Rhys ab Maredudd.— Maredudd ab Rhys. Abertanad. Maredydd Fychan, of Lleucu, d. of Hwfa ab Iorwerth, of Havod y Wern. Sable, three lions passant in pale argent. Rhys; his daughter and heiress Mali, d. of Goronwy Lleucu, ux. Madog Eva, ux. Madog ab wen. Catherine, ux. Ior- RHOS Y GARREG IN PENEGOES, IN CYFEILIOG. Ieuan ab Llwelyn ab Hywel ab Maredydd ab Llewelyn ab Hywel,= illegitimate son of Maredudd ab Bleddyn ab Cynvyn. Llywelyn.—Angharad, d. of Ieuan Blaeney ab Philip ab Ieuan Fychan ab Ieuan ab Rhys ab Llawdden, Lord of Uwch Aeron. Gules, a griffin segreant or. | a Hywel of Rhos y=Margaret, d. of Gruffydd ab Ieuan ab Garreg in Pene Hywel. goes in Cyfeiliog. of Rhos y Gorreg. = Maredudd ab Rhys ab Ieuan ab Rhys Wynn, Mabli, d. and heiress of Maredydd ab Gruffydd ab Maredudd ab Hywel ab Rhys ab Owen Fychan, of Cyfeiliog, ab Owain ab Gruffydd ab Gwen ab Goronwy ab Einion ab Seisyllt. Argent, a lion passant sable, inter three fleurs-de-lys gules. (See p. 99.) kyn Goch. Elyw, ux. Rhys Ieuan ab Rhys ab David ab Hywel Fychan, of Gilfach wen. MADOG AP MAREDUDD, 1129 TO 1159. The first thing mentioned with regard to Madog in the Bruts, is that, in 1138, he put Cynwrig, one of the illegitimate sons of Prince Owain Gwynedd, to death. In 1139, Madog ab Idnerth ab Cadwgan, Prince of Maelienydd died. In 1140, Hywel ab Maredudd ab Bleddyn was slain, some state by his own people, but others state that no one knew who killed him. In 1142, Hywel and Cadwgawn, the sons of Madog ab Idnerth ab Cadwgan ab Elystan Glodrudd, Prince of Fferlis, were slain. (See Hist. of the Parish Llangurig, p. 341, and also pp. 351 and 357, where the elegy on his death, by Llygad Gwr, and translated by Howel W. Lloyd, Esq., is given.) These two princes were slain by the contrivance of Elias de Saii, or Say,' son of Hugh de Say, who, with Roger Mortimer, was worsted by Rhys ab Gruffydd in an attempt to defend Radnor in 1144. In 1143, Randolph de Gernoniis, Earl of Chester, ravaged Maelienydd, and added it to his own dominions, and erected the castles of Elvael and Colynwy. In 1145, Meurig ab Madog ab Rhirid, and Maredudd ab Madog ab Idnerth ab Cadwgan were killed by Hugh Mortimer. In this same year, Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, took the Castle of Mont Alto or Mold, and slew immense hosts of the English and Normans, who attempted to, sunport and defend it, and razed it to the ground, which take. This castle Ralph Fitz Normed heiress nephew of the Copmfield, of b Madog. Chester in 1070. Gwion ab Hwfa ab wel ab Moreid, ab Sandef Hardhad been able to son and heir of Lleucu, ux. Made of Hugh Lupus, Goch ab leuaf, Earl Palatine of ked and slew Y of Iâl and Ystrad Lloran Uchaf. Alun, and took poG IN PENEGOES, Iordship of Ystrad Alun, and built this Maredydd ab Lwas a high and conspicuous tumulus calledd ab Bleddydd Grug, and from thence took his surname aen De Monte Alto". This Robert de Mont Alto had issue, Robert, his son and heir, who was the father of Roger, who was reputed one of the greatest barons of the realm, temp. Henry III, and 1 Helias de Say, Lord of Colynwy or Clun, bore gules, two bars vairée, argent and azure. His only daughter and heir, Isabel, Lady of Clun, married William FitzAlan, by whom she had a son and heir William FitzAlan, Baron of Clun, who died 19th Henry II, 1173, and was father of John FitzAlan, Baron of Clun, who married Isabel, sister and heir of Hugh de Albini, fifth Earl of Arundel, of that house, who died s. p. in 1243. Gules, a lion rampant or, armed and langued azure. attended Prince Edward to the Holy Land. He died 44 Henry III, 1260, leaving, by Cecilia his wife, second sister and coheir of Robert de Albini, Earl of Arundel (gules, a lion rampant or), two sons, John and Robert, and a daughter Leucha, wife of Philip de Oreby the younger. John, deceased s.p., leaving Robert his brother his heir, who had two sons, Roger and Robert, of whom Roger, summoned to Parliament, 23 Edward I, 1295, died s.p. 25 Edward I, 1297, leaving Robert his brother his heir, who had summons to Parliament from 28 Edward I to 3 Edward III, 1330, in which year he deceased s.p., having settled his lands, for want of male issue, on Isabel, Queen of England, mother of Edward III, for life, and afterwards to John of Eltham, brother of the king, and his heirs for ever. In 1148, Prince Owain Gwynedd built a castle in Iâl, and in the autumn, Madog ab Maredudd, Prince of Powys Fadog, built the Castle of Oswestry, and gave Cyfeiliog to his nephews, Owain, and Meurig ab Gruffydd ab Bleddyn. In 1150, Madog ab Meredudd joined his forces with those of Randolphus de Gernoniis, Earl of Chester (or, a lion rampant gules, his tail erect), and marched against Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, and was, with the earl, totally defeated, after a great slaughter at the battle of Consyllt in Tegeingl; and in 1152-3, Randolphus, Earl Palatine of Chester, the most powerful enemy of Owain Gwynedd, died. In 1155, Prince Madog ab Maredudd built the castle of Caer Einion in Powys, near Cymer, and took his nephew, Meurig ab Gruffydd, out of prison, and soon after this he consecrated Eglwys Fair in Meivod. He built also the castle of Overton, which he made his chief residence, from which circumstance the place received the name of Overton Madog. In 1156, Cadwaladr, son of Gruffudd, and Madawg ab Maredudd, incited King Henry to devastate Gwynedd; and when Prince Owain Gwynedd understood that, he assembled an army against him, and in the action of VOL. I. 8 |