Gwrgan ap Bleddyn: Roy Family Genealogy

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Generation: 1

Gwrgan ap Bleddyn (son of Bleddyn ap Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock and Elen).

Other Events and Attributes:

History: birth - death, Wales

Notes:

History:
He tried to recover the losses suffered by his father but was also defeated by the Normans.

Family/Spouse: Gwenllian Gwys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Cadifor ap Gwrgan

Generation: 2

Bleddyn ap Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock (son of Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock and Elen); died in 1091 in Y Gaer, Breconshire, Wales.

Notes:

Died:
He was slain by the sword in a battle waged near the villiage of Brecon. The site is beleived to have been a Roman legionary fortress dating from 100 AD. Both Bleddyn and his brother-in-law, Rhys ap Tewdwr were slain by the Normans under Bernard de Newmarch.

Bleddyn married Elen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

3.
Elen (daughter of Tewdwr ap Einion).
Children:

1. Gwrgan ap Bleddyn

daughter

Generation: 3

Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock (son of Dryffin).

Notes:

Seaver (1931) leaves out a section of the line to Beli Mawr between Cariadoc Vrech, the Earl of Hereford and Meanarch, the Lord of Brecknock.

Name:
In Wales in that time Lord was the same as King. Maenarch was the ruler of the kingdom of Brycheiniog of which Tolgwith was the capital.

Maenarch married Elen about 1050 in Wales. Elen (daughter of Einion ap Selyf) died in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

5.
Elen (daughter of Einion ap Selyf); died in Wales.
Children:

2. Bleddyn ap Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock died in 1091 in Y Gaer, Breconshire, Wales.
6.
Tewdwr ap Einion (son of Einion ap Owain and Nest); died in 0993 in Battle of Llangwm, Llangwm, Denbighshire, Wales.
Children:

3. Elen

Generation: 4

8.
Dryffin was born about 944 in Wales (son of Kydd, Prince of West Wales).
Children:

4. Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock
10.
Einion ap Selyf
Children:

5. Elen died in Wales.

12.

Einion ap Owain was born about 933 in Dinefwr Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales (son of Owain ap Hywel, Prince of South Wales and Angharad verch Llewelyn); died in 983 in Gwent, Wales.

Other Events and Attributes:

History: 967; In 967, he put the land of Gower to tribute. Einion defeated the Danes at Caer Faes in Cardigan, Wales in 981. He drove back invading Saxons in a hard-fought battle in 982.

Einion married Nest. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

13.
Nest
Children:

Gronwy ap Einion

Gwenllian verch Einion

6. Tewdwr ap Einion died in 0993 in Battle of Llangwm, Llangwm, Denbighshire, Wales.

Cadell ap Einion