Llywelyn ap Seisyll facts for kids

Llywelyn ap Seisyll (died 1023) was an 11th-century King of Gwynedd, Powys and Deheubarth.

Llywelyn was the son of Seisyll, a man of whom little is known. Llewelyn first appears on record in 1018, the year he defeated and killed Aeddan ap Blegywryd, along with four of his sons and obtained Gwynedd and Powys.

In 1022, a man named Rhain the Irishman was made king of Deheubarth; he claimed to be a son of Maredudd ab Owain, whose daughter Angharad had married Llywelyn. Llywelyn made war against Rhain, they fought a battle at Abergwili in 1022, and, after a “slaughter on both sides”, Rhain was killed, allowing Llywelyn to take control of Deheubarth.

Llywelyn, after his success against Rhain, died in 1023. The Brut y Tywysogion portrays Llywelyn's reign as one of prosperity saying “complete in abundance of wealth and inhabitants; so that it was supposed there was neither poor nor destitute in all his territories, nor an empty hamlet, nor any deficiency.” Llywelyn was called "King of the Britons" by the Annals of Ulster.

Llywelyn's son, Gruffydd;, did not succeed his father, possibly because he was too young to do so. Gruffydd went on to become the first and only true King of Wales (the only one to rule over all the territory), however, he was killed by his own men in 1063. Gruffydd's own sons Maredudd and Idwal died in 1069, fighting at the Battle of Mechain.

As Llewelyn's grandfather is not known some scholars have said it was a man named Ednowain or Owain, others Rhodri. although a Seisyll son of Llywelyn of Buellt is mentioned in a tract of the Jesus College Ms.20 as a son of Ellelw daughter of a man named Elidir ap Llywarch of which Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and Llywelyn ap Seisyll are named in the latter part possibly implying Seisyll's father was a man named Llywelyn from Buellt and due to the connection of the family of Tegonwy ap Teon to said area e.g. the Iorwerthion it is plausible this Llywelyn is Llywelyn O'r Trallwng.

Leofric de Blackwell and Aelfgar son of Leofric.

Ælfgar married Ælfgifu,2 5 daughter of Æthelred II, King of England and Ælfgifu, of York,. Ælfgifu was born about 997 in Wessex, England. Another name for Ælfgifu, Princess of England. Edith daughter of Aelfgar became queen consort of Gwynedd.

married Into the Kingdom of Gwynedd Edith had two daughters Nest and Guenta.Then when the family had to flee in 1066 After the Battle of Hastings, Morcar and his brother arrived at London, sent their sister Ealdgyth-Edith, king Harold's widow, to Chester, and urged the citizens to raise one or the other of them to the throne. Her daughters Nest and Guenta lived. Chester was one of the last cities in England to fall to the Normans and William of Normandy and was the capital of the former kingdom Gwynedd,Chester is thought to once have been in North-east Wales early 10th century and 11th Century become part of Gwynedd.

one of her daughter's Guenta who married Fleance son of Banquo. A few words concerning the origin of the House of Stuart might be apropos: Fleance, son of Banquo mentioned in "Macbeth," fled to England after the murder of his father, and there married Guenta, a daughter of Griffith, Prince of Wales, whose wife was Eadgyth aka Edith (afterwards the wife of Harold II., King of England, "The last of the Saxons"), a daughter of Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia and son of Leofric de Blackwell and the celebrated Lady Godiva. Alan, son of Fleance (or Flaald, as he was also called), was the father of Walter Fitz-Alan, who became Lord High Steward of Scotland, from which dignity he took his family name of Steward (or Stewart). His descendant, Alexander Stewart, married the Princess Marjory Bruce, daughter of Robert I., King of Scotland, and their son succeeded his maternal grandfather as Robert II., of Scotland. From him came all the succeeding Kings of Scotland and of England.The FitzAlan family shared a common patrilineal ancestry with the House of Stuart an indirect line of the House of Aberffraw) Edith married Gruffydd ap Llywelyn who was a member of the (House of Rhuddlan dynasty-a cadet Branch of the House of Dinefwer) Edith and Gruffydd had two daughters Nest and Gunnta.In genealogy and wills, a person's issue is all their lineal descendants. Edith's son Maredudd ap Gruffydd,Idwal ap Gruffydd,Nest ,Harold,Gunnta and Ithel ap Gruffudd who died between 1069 and 1070 at the age of 28 ,son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, and Edith of Mercia

It was presumably in the year of her father's appointment (c. 1057) that Ealdgyth married his political ally, King Gruffudd ap Llywelyn. William of Jumièges describes her as a woman of considerable beauty.Walter Map also wrote of a beautiful lady much beloved by the king and so he may have had Ealdgyth in mind. On Edith's marriage, she was given a modest amount of land in England, though the only estate which can be identified as having belonged to her is one at Binley, Warwickshire. The chronicles also record two of Gruffudd's sons, Maredudd and Ithel ap Gruffudd died in 1070 age 28 He Died at the hands of Rhiwallon and Bleddyn ap Cynfyn,Idwal.