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Bleddyn ap Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock

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  • Name Bleddyn ap Maenarch  
    Relationshipwith Robert Alan Roy
    Death 1091  Y Gaer, Breconshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • 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. [1]
    Person ID I1203  | Roy Line
    Last Modified 9 Oct 2019 

    Father Maenarch, Lord of Brecknock 
    Mother Elen   d. Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1050  Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1090  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elen  [1, 3
    Children 
    +1. Gwrgan ap Bleddyn
     2. daughter
    Family ID F1056  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Oct 2019 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1091 - Y Gaer, Breconshire, Wales Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S279] Bowen, Georgene E. Bowen - The Ancestry of Griffith Bowen of "Burryhead" Llangenydd Parish, Glamorgan County, Wales and One Line of American Descendants Through the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut and the Bowens of Charlstown, New Hampshire, (manuscript, 1960).

    2. [S2000] ------------- Sources Below not Reviewed -------------.

    3. [S280] Seaver, Jesse Montgomery. The Bowen Genealogy, (Philadelphia: privately printed, 1931).