The above-named Roger Mortimer got possession of the Lordship of Chirk by grant from Edward I, dated 7th October 1282 (see p. 178); and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in the year 1333, where he died in 1336.

Iorwerth Foel married Gwladys, daughter and coheiress of Iorwerth ab Gruffudd ab Heilin of Y Fron Goch, now called Celynog in Mochnant, ab Meurig ab Ieuan ab Adda Goch of Mochnant, ab Cynwrig ab Pasgen ab Gwyn ab Gruffudd, Lord of Cegidfa and Deuddwr. Iorwerth ab Gruffudd of Fron Goch bore, 1, sable, three horse's heads erased argent; and 2, argent, a chev. inter three Cornish choughs, with ermine in their beaks sable. The mother of Gwladys was Alice, daughter of Hwfa ab Iorwerth ab Gruffudd of Bersham, ab Ieuaf ab Nyniaf ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn,' gules, two lions passant, argent, for Iorwerth ab Gruffudd of Bersham.

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Gwladys, the wife of Iorwerth Foel, was buried in Hanmer Church, where her tomb yet remains with this inscription :-" HIC IACET WLADYS VXOR IERWERTH VOYL. ORATE. P. EA.”, round the coffin lid. Within the inscription on the area of the stone lid is a very fine floriated cross, almost identical with that described by Camden, i, 12, as being at St. Buriens, in Cornwall.2

By this lady, Iorwerth Foel had issue five sons:

I. MADOG LLOYD, of Bryn Cunallt, Lord of Chirk. He bore the coat of Tudor Trevor in a border gules, and was ancestor of John Wynn Jones of Bryn Cunallt, (who sold that estate to Sir Edward Trevor), and several other families, of whom an account has been given in the Archæologia Cambrensis, January 1877, p. 22.

II. GRUFFUDD, of Maelor Saesneg, who married Gwerfyl, daughter and coheiress of Madog ab Maredudd ab Llywelyn Fychan, of Abertanad and Blodwel in Mechain, ab Llywelyn ab Owain Fychan ab Owain, Lord of Mechain Isgoed, argent, a lion rampant sable, in a border indented gules, second son of Madog ab Maredudd, Prince of Powys Fadog, by whom he had issue seven

1 Add. MS. 9864.

2 Rev. M. H. Lee, Vicar of Hanmer.

sons: 1, Madog Lloyd, of Isgoed in Maelor Saesneg, ancestor of the Lloyds of Tal y Wern; 2, Llywelyn Ddû of Abertanad and Blodwel; 3, David, grandfather of Edward ab Madog ab David of Bodylltyn in Rhiwabon; 4, Madog Ddû; 5, Iorwerth Foel; 6, Morgan Goch of Willington, whose line is now represented through heirs female by the Dimokes of Penley Hall and Willington; and, 7, Goronwy Ddû of Abertanad.

III. MORGAN AB IORWERTH FOEL of Maelor Saesneg, ancestor of the Yonges of Bryn Iorcyn and Croxton in the parish of Hanmer.

IV. EDNYFED GAM of Llys Pengwern in Nantheudwy, who married Gwladys, daughter and coheiress of Llewelyn ab Madog ab Einion of Iâl, ab Rhirid ab Madog ab Marcdudd ab Uchdryd, Lord of Cyfeiliawg, ab Edwyn ab Goronwy, Prince of Tegeingl, by whom he had issue six sons: 1, Llywelyn ab Ednyfed of Halchdyn in Maelor Saesneg, ancestor of the Lloyds of Halchdyn; 2, Iorwerth Ddû of Llys Pengwern in Nantheudwy, ancestor of the families of Mostyn, Lord Mostyn of Mostyn, Sir Pyers Mostyn of Talacre, Bart.; Mostyn, Lord Vaux of Harrowden; Mostyn, now Mostyn Owen of Woodhouse, and Mostyn of Segrwyd; the Edwardses of Plas Newydd and Cefn y Wern in the Swydd y Waun (Lordship of Chirk), the Lloyds of Plâs Is y Clawdd in the same lordship; and the Hughes of Pennant y Belan in Rhiwabon; 3, David, ancestor of the Trevors of Plâs Têg yn Yr Hôb, of Bryn Cunallt, of Pentref Cynwrig and Bodynfol, of Trefalun and Croes Oswallt, or Oswestry; 4, Ieaun ab Ednyfed, ancestor of the Joneses of Westyn Rhyn, and Edward ab Iohn ab Edward of Ty 'ny Celyn in the parish of St. Martin; 5, Maredudd, fourth in descent from whom was William ab Reignallt ab David ab Gruffudd of Careg Hwfa, whose daughter and heiress, Margaret, married Robert Lloyd of Bryn Gwyn, Esq.; and 6, Gruffudd, ancestor of the Pughs of Ty Cerrig in Llan y Myneich.

v. IEUAN AB IORWERTH FOEL, of Llanvechain.

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ARMS OF THE ROYAL AND NOBLE TRIBES OF POWYS.

Brochmael Ysgythrog, King of Powys; sable, three horse's heads erased argent.

Merfyn, King of Powys; or, a lion's gamb bend ways, erased gules, armed azure.

Trahaiarn ab Caradawg, King of Gwynedd and Powys; argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or, armed and langued gules.

Bleddyn ab Cynfyn, Prince of Powys; or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued gules.

Madawg ab Maredudd, Prince of Powys; argent, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules.

Gruffudd Maelawr; argent, four pales gules, a lion salient sable, armed and langued azure.

Gruffudd ab Maredudd, Prince of Upper Powys; or, a lion's gamb bendways erased gules, armed azure. Owain Cyfeiliawg; as above. Gwenwenwyn; as above.

Gruffudd ab Gwenwynwyn; or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure.

Cadwgan of Nannau; or, a lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules

Hywel ab leuaf, Lord of Arwystli; argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or, which arms, after his marriage with the Princess Merinedd, daughter of Gruffudd ab Cynan, King of Gwynedd, who bore gules, three lions passant in pale argent, were changed to gules, a lion rampant argent, crowned or, and langued azure, when he obtained the Lordship of Arwystli as a marriage portion with his wife.

Llywarch ab Trahairn; argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or, armed and langued azure.

Maredudd ab Rotpert, Lord of Cydewen; as above. Madog ab Trahaiarn; argent, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure.

Gwrystan ab Gwaethfoed; vert, a lion rampant argent, head, feet, and tail, imbrued

Maredudd ab Cynan, Lord of Meirionydd; quarterly, gules and argent, four lions passant gardant counterchanged.

Owain ab Malawg, Lord of Mechain is y Coed; argent, a lion rampant sable, in a border indented gules. Owain Brogyntyn; argent, a lion rampant sable, debruised by a baton sinister gules.

Einion Efell; party per fess sable and argent, a lion. rampant counterchanged, armed and langued gules.

Cynwrig Efell; gules, on a bend argent, a lion passant sable.

Cynfelyn ab Dolphwyn, Lord of Manafon, ab Rhiwallawn ab Madawg ab Cadwgan, Lord of Nannau ; azure, a lion passant argent.

Madawg Heddgam; azure, a bow and arrow distended partly downwards argent.

Brochmael ab Aeddan of Llanerch Brochmael, Lord of Cegidfa, Broniarth, and Deuddwr; party per pale, or and gules, two lions rampant addorsed counterchanged.

Tudor Trevor; party per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, over all a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules.

Lluddoccaf ab Hyfaidd ab Caradawg Ffreichfras, King of Gloucester and Hereford; azure, a lion rampant, party per fess or and argent, in a border of the third, eight annulets sable.

Elidur ab Rhys Sais; ermine, a lion rampant azure. Iddon ab Rhys Sais; argent, a chev. inter three boar's heads couped gules, tusked or, and langued azure.

Adda ab Awr, of Trefor; party per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or in a border gules. Adda Goch, of Trevor; the arms of Tudor Trevor, in a border gobonated argent and gules, pellaty counterchanged.

Madog Lloyd, of Bryn Cunallt; arms of Tudor Trevor, in a plain border gules.

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Dingad ab Tudor Trevor; ermine, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules.

Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn, as above.

Ednyfed ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn; ermine, a lion statant gardant gules, armed, etc., azure.

Hwfa ab Iorwerth, of Havod y Wern; sable, three lions passant in pale argent.

Iorwerth ab Gruffudd, of Bersham; gules, two lions passant in pale argent.

Madog Danwr, of Llangurig; ermine, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules, in a border gules, charged with eight mullets; or, according to others, eight lions passant or. (See page 78.)

Sanddef Hardd, Lord of Mortyn; vert, semé of broomslips, a lion rampant or.

Eunydd, Lord of Dyffryn Clwyd, Trefalun and Gresford. 1, azure, a lion salient or; 2, azure, a fess or, inter three horse's heads erased argent, for Rhys ab Marchan, Lord of Dyffryn Clwyd.

Ednowain ab Ithel, Lord of the Bryn, in Llanfihangl y Pennant; argent three wolves, courant in pale sable, armed and langued gules, collared of the field.

Idnerth Benfras, Lord of Maesbrwg; argent, a cross flory engrailed sable, inter four Cornish choughs ppr.; on a chief azure, a boar's head couped argent, tusked or, and langued gules.

Cadwgan y Saethydd, of Mochnant, Lord of Henfachau; argent, a chev. gules, inter three pheons pointed to the centre, sable.

Sir Roger de Powys, of Whittington, knight; vert, a boar or.

Llywelyn Foelgrwn of Main; argent, a lion passant sable, in a border indented gules.

Llywelyn Eurdorchog, Lord of Iâl and Ystrad Alun ; azure, a lion passant gardant, his tail between his legs, and reflected over his back or.

Ithel Felyn, Lord of Iâl and Ystrad Alun; sable, on a chev., inter three goat's heads erased or, three trefoils of the field.