Angharad ferch Llywelyn facts for kids
Angharad ferch Llywelyn was a daughter of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, who was the Prince of Wales. She lived around the year 1260. We don't know for sure who her mother was. However, some old family records say her mother was Joan. Joan was the daughter of King John of England.
Angharad isn't mentioned much in the old writings from her time. But we do know she was married to a man named Maelgwn Fychan. She is also mentioned in a document from 1260, which was the year she passed away.
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Angharad's Family Life
Angharad married Maelgwn Fychan from a place called Deheubarth in Wales. Maelgwn was a descendant of a famous Welsh leader known as Lord Rhys. Angharad and Maelgwn had four children together.
Her Children
- Rhys (died around 1255)
- Gwenllian (died around 1254) – She married Maredudd ap Llywelyn.
- Marared (died in 1255) – She married Owain ap Maredudd.
- Eleanor of Ceredigion – She married Maredudd ap Owain.
Famous Descendants
Angharad's family line became very important in Welsh and English history.
Owain Glyndŵr's Connection
Marared's daughter, also named Angharad, married Eleanor's son, Owain. Their son, Llywelyn, is thought to have married Eleanor of Bar. Eleanor of Bar was possibly the daughter of Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar, who was King Edward I of England's daughter.
Llywelyn's son was named Thomas ap Llywelyn. Thomas had two daughters, Ellen and Margaret. Ellen was the mother of Owain Glyndŵr. Owain Glyndŵr was a very important Welsh leader. He led a big rebellion against English rule in the early 1400s.
The Tudor Family Link
Thomas ap Llywelyn's other daughter, Margaret, married Tudur ap Goronwy. The famous House of Tudor royal family came from Margaret and Tudur. This means Margaret was the great-great-grandmother of Henry VII of England. King Henry VII was the first Tudor king of England.
Sources
- Huw Pryce (ed.), Acts of Welsh Rulers 1120–1283 (Cardiff, 2005), p. 202.
- Visitation of Shropshire 1623 by R Tresswell Somerset Herald with other sources of years 1569 & 1584
- Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700 (2008).
