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Arwystli became a portion of the territories of Gruffudd ab Cynan. Subsequently it appears to have belonged to Owain Cyfeiliog, from whom it was taken in 1167 by the Lord Rhys ab Gruffydd, to whom it was confirmed by Henry II, in 1171, and it was afterwards reconquered by Gwenwynwyn, the son of Owain Cyfeiliog, in 1197. It was at this time that Gwenwynwyn gave his faithful and brave soldier, Madog Danwr Trevor, the son of Ieuan ab Maredudd ab Madog ab Gruffydd ab David ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn, the whole parish of Llangurig, the manors of Aber Havesp and Dolfachwen, and large estates in Llanidloes and other places. In Llangurig Church there are memorial windows to King Trahaiarn Gwenwynwyn, and Madog Danwr.

THE LORDS OF ARWYSTLI.

Ceidio ab Corf ab Gaenog Gawr ab Iorwerth Hirflawdd.

Bledrws ab Ceidio

Bleddyn ab Bledrws, Lord of Arwystli. Sable, three fleurs-de-lys, argent. Ednowain ab Bleddyn, Lord of Arwystli.

Collwyn ab Ednowain, Lord of Arwystli.=

Gwyn ab Collwyn, Lord of Arwystli.

Caradawg ab Gwyn ab Collwyn, Lord of Arwystli.

Trahairn ab Caradawg, Lord of Arwystli, and King of Gwynedd and Powys. Argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or He was slain in the bloody battle of Mynydd y Garn by Gruffydd ab Cynan, King of Gwynedd, in the year 1080.

Gruffydd ab Cynan, Lord of Arwystli, ob. 1136, gules, three lions passant, in pale argent. Howel ab leuaf, Lord of Arwystli, ob. 1185, gules, a lion rampant argent, crowned or. Owain of Brithdir, son of Howel ab Ieuaf, Lord of Arwystli, ob. 1197. Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys Wenwynwyn, or, a lion's gamb, dexterways, erased gules, armed azure, conquered Arwystli in 1197. He died in 1218. An account of his descendants has

been given in the Montgomeryshire Collections, published by the Powysland Club.

The Cantref of Arwystli contained the three Comots of Gwarthrynion, Arwystli Uwch Goed, and Arwystli Isgoed.

In 1171, Henry II granted the province of Arwystli to Rhys ab Gruffudd ab Rhys, Prince of South Wales. Prince Rhys died in 1197, and Arwystli was conquered by Gwenwynwyn, after whose deposition, Arwystli became part of the territories of Llywelyn ab Gruffudd, the last Prince of Wales, who was slain in 1282, and Arwystli was granted by the English king to Owain ab Gruffudd ab Gwenwynwyn, who bore, as his father Gruffudd ab Gwenwynwyn did, or, a lion rampant gules, and died in 1293. He was succeeded by his son Gruffudd ab Owain, who died in 1309, and Arwystli passed, with the Barony of Powys, to his sister Haweis, who married Sir John de Cherleton, who in her right became Baron of Powys. He died seized of the lordship of Arwystli in 1353. His son John, second Baron, died seized of it in 1360, and his son John de Cherleton, third Baron, died seized of Arwystli in 1374. John de Cherleton, fourth Baron and Lord of Arwystli, died without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Edward, fifth Baron of Powys, who died seized of Arwystli in 1421.

This Edward, Lord Powys, had two daughters, coheiresses, upon the second of whom, Joyce, he settled the lordship of Arwystli, which passed by her marriage to her husband, Sir John Tiptoft, whose son and successor John was created Earl of Worcester in 1449, and for his firm adherence to the cause of Edward IV, was beheaded in 1470. Subsequently the lordship of Arwystli fell to the Crown, and was sold by George III to the late Sir W. W. Wynn of Wynnstay, Bart., in whose family it still remains.

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Argent, a lion salient sable, crowned or, armed and langued gules.

THE LORDS OF CYDEWEN.

This province formed part of the possessions of Elystan Glodrudd, Prince of Fferlis, and passed by marriage into the family of Trahaiarn ab Caradawg, King of Gwynedd and Powys and Lord of Arwystli. As previously stated, Trahaiarn, at his death in 1080, left several sons, the eldest of whom was:

LLYWARCH AB TRAHAIARN, who did not succeed his father in his dominions. In 1096, Gruffudd ab Cynan, King of Gwynedd, and Cadwgan ab Bleddyn, Prince of Powys (who seems to have ruled Powys after the death of Trahaiarn ab Caradog, and thus to have taken possession of Cyfeiliog, Merionydd, and Penllyn), were obliged to leave their country and fly for refuge to Ireland; but in 1098 they returned to Wales, and Gruffudd, with an army of Scots from Ireland, regained Môn, and Cadwgan regained Ceredigion, together with the country of Arwystli and Meirionydd.

In 1105, the Princes Meurig and Gruffudd, the sons of Trahaiarn ab Caradog, were slain by Sir Owain ab Cadwgan ab Bleddyn, and about the same time, Prince Maredudd ab Bleddyn escaped from prison, and recovered his territory without opposition.

In 1109, Llywarch ab Trahaiarn, together with Madog ab Rhirid ab Bleddyn, at Cynfyn, killed Iorwerth Goch

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but he out of prison, and was caught, and his eyes pulled out by the sons of Meurig ab Gruffudd, and he was placed on the top of a desert mountain, where he perished from hunger and cold.

In 1127, 29 Henry I, Iorwerth ab Llywarch was slain by Llewelyn ab Sir Owain ab Cadwgan ab Bleddyn.

Llywarch ab Trahaiarn married Dyddgu, daughter of Idnerth ab Cadwgan ab Elystan Glodrudd, Prince of Fferlis, by whom he had issue, three sons and two daughters --1, Robert, or Rotpert ab Llywarch, of whom presently; 2, Maredudd ab Llywarch, and 3, Iorwerth; the two daughters were, 1, Gwladys, who was the first wife of Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, by whom she had issue, two sons, Iorwerth Drwyn Dwn and Maelgwyn, and one daughter, who married Owain Cyfeiliog, Prince of Powys Uchaf; and 2, Mabli, who married Ieuaf ab Niniaf, the eldest son of Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn, Lord of Maelor Gymraeg and Yr Hôb.

ROTPERT, or ROBERT AB LLYWARCH, married first, Janet, daughter of Samwel, Lord of Cydywen, and Eigr, his wife, daughter and heiress of Madog, third son of Cadwallawn ab Madog ab Idnerth, Lord of Maelienydd and Ceri, of the royal house of Fferlis. (See History of the Parish of Llangurig, p. 343.) Samwel, Lord of Cydewen, was the son of Cadafael Yr Ynad, Judge of the Court of Powys, then held at Castell Dinas Bran in 1 Lewys Dunn, vol. i, p. 136.

Nanheudwy, in the time of Gruffydd Maelor, Prince of Powys Fadog. Cadafael bore, sable, three ragged staves or, fired ppr. This coat was granted to him to commemorate the service he rendered his country, by his custom of going with firebrands from mountain to mountain to ignite the fire-beacons on their summits, to warn the inhabitants of the approach of an enemy. Cadafael was also Lord of Cydewen, by right of his wife Arianwen,' daughter and heiress of Iorwerth ab Trahaiarn ab Iorwerth, Lord of Cydewen, the second son of Cadwgan ab Elystan Glodrudd, Prince of Fferlis. (See History of the Parish of Llangurig, p. 337.) The mother of Arianwen, Lady of Cydewen, was Jane, daughter of Mare-· dydd ab Bleddyn, Prince of Powys.

Rotpert ab Llywarch, had issue by his wife Janet, besides a daughter Nest, wife of Gruffudd Foel ab Ivor ab Cadivor, Lord of Ceredigion, two sons-1, Maredudd of whom presently, and 2, Trahaiarn ab Robert, who married and had issue five sons-Cadwgan, Maredudd, Hywel, Owain, ancestor of the Penrhyns of Penrhyn in Aber Rhiw in Cydywen,' and Ieuan the father of David the father of David Fychan of Penrhyn in Aber Rhiw in Cydywen, Lord of Pentref, whose only daughter and heiress Meddevis, married Ieuan ab Einion ab Eilas ab Owain ab Trahaiarn ab Rotpert ab Llywarch.

MAREDUDD AB ROTPERT, Lord of Cydewen, which Lordship he bought, according to Lewys Dwn," from his maternal uncle Madog ab Samwel, Lord of Cydewen, in 1210 (11 John). In 1211 he sided with Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth against King John, and when the Castle of Kinnerley, in the Lordship of Oswestry, was taken and demolished by the forces of Llywelyn in 1223, and the Prince bound himself to give satisfaction for the

1 Lenys Dunn, vol. i, p. 136.

2 John Penrhyn of Penrhyn, ab David ab John ab Gruffydd ab Owain ab Gruffudd Goch ab Maredudd ab David ab David Lloyd ab David ab Ieuan ab Einion ab Eilas ab Owain ab Trahaiarn ab Rotpert ab Llywarch. Lewys Dun, vol. i, p. 274.

3 Lewys Dun, vol. i, p. 136.

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