Aldud ab Owain of Tegaingl

• Preferred Name: Aldud ab Owain of Tegaingl
  
• Alternate Name: Aldud ap Owain ap Edwi
  
• Alternate Name: Aldud de Deuheubarth
  
• Gender: M
  
• Tribe Name: with note: Description: Edwin
  
• Birth: 1075 in Tegaingl, Flintshire, Wales at LATI: N3.2362 LONG: E3.1291 with note: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ab_Owain-12
  
• FSID: L6KR-R96
  
• Death: 1132
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Exactly who was this man called Aldud of Tegeingl?
  Wholly absent from the Welsh chronicles and early histories, the only story told of Aldud is found in Peniarth Ms 131 written by Ieuan Brechfa about the year 1500. There, we are told that Aldud "held all of Tegeingl by spear and sword for three years over a grievance with its Lord, for which act he then received a pardon from the king". While not named, we might assume this "Lord" was Gruffudd ap Cynan and the king who pardoned him may have been Henry I. The event, if historical, should have occurred c. 1125, the year when Cadwallon ap Gruffudd ap Cynan killed 3 sons of Owain ap Edwin.
  
  Thomas Glenn was perhaps the first to suggest that Aldud was not a birth name at all, but a corrupt spelling of "alltud". In Welsh law, an alltud was an alien who came to live in Wales. While accepted by the noble class and permitted to inter-marry with them, an alltud had a lesser monetary value in the schedule of fines levied for offences against a man. His family would not be viewed equal in value to Welshmen until the 9th generation. We tend to agree with Glenn; no other man (or woman) bears the name Aldud in the entire body of both ancient and medieval pedigree manuscripts. (But refer to the final paragraph of this paper for a discussion of a man called Aldrud.)
  
  We suspect that Aldud was a non-Welsh child adopted and raised as a son by Owain ap Edwin. It is likely the first mention in a pedigree called him "y alltud" which later copyists rendered as Aldud. (In many Welsh words and names, "d" and "t" are interchangable, both pronounced as "t".)
  
  Cautioning that what follows is mere speculation, we shall attempt to construct a reasonable scenerio which might explain our "adopted son" theory. We shall set the stage with the 1098 flight of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn and Gruffudd ap Cynan from Anglesey to Ireland. When a deal was made with the Normans to allow their return to Wales, Earl Hugh of Chester required they give hostages to ensure their "good behavior" and fidelity to him as overlord. One such hostage may have been a 14 year old kinsman of Gruffudd. Earl Hugh may have then turned the youngster over to his man in Tegeingl, Owain ap Edwin, since he was about the age when young men begin their training for manhood. Earl Hugh died three years later in 1102 and Owain may have adopted the young man both because he had grown fond of the lad and because they were distantly related...Owain's mother, Iwerydd ferch Cynfyn, was perhaps a cousin of the boy's grandfather in Ireland. Whatever was the birthname of the boy, we know him only as Aldud.
  
  We suggest Owain's natural sons accepted Aldud as a brother, and after Owain died in 1105, they made sure he received a full share of his lands. He apparently took a wife when he completed his mandatory training at age 28 and they had a daughter Gwladys followed by sons Owain, Iorwerth and Llewelyn. In 1125, we are told that Cadwallon ap Gruffudd ap Cynan killed Gronwy, Rhiryd and Meilyr...natural sons of Owain ap Edwin. We think Gruffudd, then about 55 years old, sent his warband against the Tegeingl family when they refused to accept his taking of all Gwynedd as his rightful lordship. Having faithfully served King Henry I for 25 years, we believe the king finally rewarded Gruffudd ap Cynan by granting him rule of all Gwynedd; he had long insisted it was his birthright but had never rebelled when he had been limited to rule only in Anglesey.
  
  Although the Tegeingl family was well aware that the English king had sanctioned the expansion of Gruffudd's rule to include their lands, they rebelled. They had prospered for years as "holders-in-chief" from the English king and may have feared that serving under Gruffudd would subject them to all the petty wars between the various Welsh princedoms. So perhaps it fell to Aldud to "defend" Tegeingl against the sons of Gruffudd ap Cynan, denying them any control there by "spear and sword" for three years. King Henry was preoccupied with events in Normandy and attempting to arrange for his eventual successor (he had no sons), and may have simply left the Tegeingl problem to Gruffudd for the time being. Eventually Aldud relented, probably when Henry I finally summoned both men and imposed a settlement which included a full pardon to Aldud for having forcefully prevented Henry's man Gruffudd from collecting the rents and other renders the Tegeingl family owed its "lord".
  
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  === Something Cool ===
  REMARKS: "the man who held all Tegeingl by his spear and sword in spite of the Judge and the Lord", meaning that holding by Norman tenure and as a vassal of the Earl of Chester he had taken an active part in 1157 in Owain "Gwynedd"s quarrel with the king. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 40)
  ◦(Research):IDENTITY: Conflict/Error> Bartrum's 'Welsh Genealogies 300-1400' volume 5 page 272 footnote 1 states: "Many texts make Alduda daughter of Owain and wife of Ystifyn [Earl of Derby]. See Index. E289 says: 'Alud, y gwr a gynnhaliodd kwbl o Degaingl wrth y waew di gledd o anvodd gwlad ac arglwydd dr brenin, a'r drydedd vlwyddyn y dilifrodd ef y kyfoeth yr dlyeddogion trwy arch y brenin, ac yntau a gafas i bardwnn gann y brenin ogwbl oll'."
  IDENTITY: Conflict/Error> Vaughan's 'Llyfr Achau Robert Vaughan, Peniarth 287' page 199 makes him a female and states "Aldud Gwraig Stephan vab iarll Derby". The female version of Aldud is included in this family, but the descendant indicated in this source are the children of Edwin "Aldud" ab Owain.
  KINSHIP: Investigate> Glenn's 'Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh' page 41 gives him additional sons name Maredudd "Fawr" and Uchtryd which were listed in a land exchange with the Abbot of Basingwerk. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 41)
  KINSHIP: Conflict/Error> Dwnn's 'Heraldic Visitations of Wales' volume 2 pages 299, 300 and 322 omits this generation from the name string.
  KINSHIP: Conflict/Error> J-Morris' 'Shropshire Genealogies' volume 3 page 1231 omits this generation from the name string.
  KINSHIP: Conflict/Error> J-Morris' 'Shropshire Genealogies' volume 2 page 816 omits this generation from the name string.
  KINSHIP: Conflict/Error> Griffith's 'Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families' page 203 omits this generation from the name string.
  KINSHIP: Conflict/Error> Lloyd's 'History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog' volume 4 pages 98 and 185 footnote 2 omit this generation from the name string.
  
  === !From records in LDS Library in Salt Lak ===
  !From records in LDS Library in Salt Lake City, UT.
  
  === !#4568-v5-p272*,273; v12-p907; !Arch Rec ===
  !#4568-v5-p272*,273; v12-p907; !Arch Rec: Eminent Welshmen; Plantagenent Ancestry; Royal Tribes of Wales; Archaelogia Cambrensis; (birth 1071 of Tegeingl); !ORD: TIB: SLAKE: Bap> 5544, End>; !CONFLICT: #4568-v14 shows him listed both as male and female. Many texts make Aldud a daughter of Owain and wife of Ystifyn, Earl of Derby.

1. Llewelyn ab Aldud, b. ABT 1130 in Treffynnon, Flintshire, Wales