Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach

• Preferred Name: Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach
  
• Alternate Name: Gruffudd ap Philip
  
• Alternate Name: Gruffudd ap Ifor
  
• Alternate Name: Gruffudd
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Prince of Senghennydd
  
• FSID: GQJ5-3M6
  
• Death: 1211 in Wales at LATI: N2.3302 LONG: E3.7664
  
• Birth: 1130 in Wales at LATI: N2.3302 LONG: E3.7664 with note: UK doesn't exist yet in 1130.
  
• Christening: in Enn ap Gllwn, Wales at LATI: N2.3302 LONG: E3.7664 with note: Standardized name
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157. ...
  Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
  i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
  ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
  iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
  iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).”
  
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  Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Vol. 3 pg 87
  ... of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys.
  
  At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey.
  
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  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  GRIFFITH ap IVOR Bach
  
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  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  
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  === !#4569-v1-p45; !ASSUMPTION: place of res ===
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  === !#4569-v3-p420; !ASSUMPTION: place of re ===
  !#4569-v3-p420; !ASSUMPTION: place of residence unknown, placed here for recording purposes;
  
  === !Medieval
  !Griffith ap Ivor of Castleddw ===
  !Medieval
  !Griffith ap Ivor of Castleddwm.
  
  === Royal Descents p 404 ===
  Royal Descents p 404
  
  === !Weis. 179-1. Griffith ap Ivor Bach he ===
  !Weis. 179-1. Griffith ap Ivor Bach held the lordship of Senghenydd of the honour of Glamorgan.

1. Howell Vychan Lewis, b. 1185 in Wales    
2. Nest verch Gruffudd , b. 1178 in Wales    
3. Rhys ap Gruffudd, b. 1170 in Ewias, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom     d. 1256 in Wales, United Kingdom
4. Lleucu verch Gruffudd, b. 1176 in Wales, United Kingdom    
5. verch Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach, b. ABT 1175 in Senghennydd Cantref, Glamorganshire, Wales    
6. Hywel Felyn ap Gruffudd, b. ABT 1170 in Senghennydd cantref, Glamorganshire, Wales     d. in Wales

1. Hywel Fychan ap Grufydd, b. 1210 in Senghenydd, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom    
2. Nest verch Gruffudd , b. 1178 in Wales    

1. Hywel "hir" ap Gruffudd, b. ABT 1185 in of Meisgyn,Penychen,Glamorganshire,Wales