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Bleddyn ap Maenyrch King of Brecon
- Preferred Name: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch King of Brecon[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]
- Alternate Name: Bleddyn of Maenarch
- Alternate Name: Drymbenog Maenyrch
- Alternate Name: Blethyn or Bleddyn ap MAERYICH or MAENARCH
- Alternate Name: Madog Ap Maenyrch
- Alternate Name: Gwynfardd Dyfed
- Alternate Name: Bleddyn ap Maenarch Lord of Brecknockshire
- Alternate Name: Blegwrd ap Bleddyn
- Alternate Name: Blethyn de Brecknock [Lord]
- Alternate Name: Bleddyn Ap Maenarch
- Gender: M
- _FSFTID: with note: Description: LHT4-XSK
Most vital information and relationships match. Some details contain minor conflicts. ID numbers: GH8W-57N and MNW7-5D6.
- FSID: MNW7-5D6
- _STAT: with note: Description: MARRIED
Most vital information and relationships match. Some details contain minor conflicts. ID numbers: GH8W-57N and MNW7-5D6.
- AFN: with note: Description: PZ7X-VR
- Birth: 1044 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales at LATI: N1.95 LONG: E3.3833
- Death: 1093 in Wales at LATI: N2.3302 LONG: E3.7664
- Burial: 1093 in Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales at LATI: N2.2148 LONG: E3.9317
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Bleddyn-ap-Maenyrch-of-Brewn/6000000007646578415?through=6000000036433525777
- Christening: in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales at LATI: N1.95 LONG: E3.3833 with note: Most vital information and relationships match. Some details contain minor conflicts. ID numbers: GH8W-57N and MNW7-5D6.
- Notes:
Bleddyn ap Maenyrch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordship_of_Brecknock
=== G T Clark: The Genealogies of Glamorgan ===
G T Clark: The Genealogies of Glamorgan P. 193
=== Still Living. ===
Still Living.
=== 21 dead ===
21 dead
=== !#4568-v7-p496; "Pedigrees of the Welsh ===
!#4568-v7-p496; "Pedigrees of the Welsh Tribal Patriarchs", P.C. Bartrum, NLW v13 (PP62); living in 1038;
=== !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
!NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
=== !#4568-v7-p496; "Pedigrees of the Welsh ===
!#4568-v7-p496; "Pedigrees of the Welsh Tribal Patriarchs", P.C. Bartrum, NLW v13 (PP62); living in 1038;
1040
Ancestral File Number: PZ7X-VR
G T Clark: The Genealogies of Glamorgan P. 193
!#4568-v3-p85*,119; v9-p663; v11-p847; !#235-v1-p68; Lord of Brecon; death abt 1092; !#249-55-v5-p183; death 1103; !Arch Rec: Birth 1040; Lord of Brecon; Monm 1 v1-pt2-p338; v3-pt2-p338; !ORD: TIB: *Slake: End> 2090-3G-73; Sgeor: Bap> SG 91224 (1 Sep 1966), End> 59714-26 (10 Dec 1966); Manti: Bap> (22 May 1923), End> 14261-J2-517 (18 Jun 1930); SLAKE: Bap> (26 May 1934), End> 13910-5Q-607 (11 Jan 1935); FN #PZ7XVR;
21 dead
!NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH:"WELSH GENEALOGIES AD300-1400," by Peter Clement Bartrum, published by The National Library of Wales, 1980. BIRTH -MARRIAGE:"A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK", by Theophilus Jones, pub. in London, England, in 1805. LDS FHC microfilm #0990114, p. 249.
G T Clark: The Genealogies of Glamorgan P. 193, 194
=== G T Clark: The Genealogies of Glamorgan ===
G T Clark: The Genealogies of Glamorgan P. 193, 194
=== 1040 ===
1040
=== Ancestral File Number: PZ7X-VR ===
Ancestral File Number: PZ7X-VR
=== !#4568-v3-p85*,119; v9-p663; v11-p847; ! ===
!#4568-v3-p85*,119; v9-p663; v11-p847; !#235-v1-p68; Lord of Brecon; death abt 1092; !#249-55-v5-p183; death 1103; !Arch Rec: Birth 1040; Lord of Brecon; Monm 1 v1-pt2-p338; v3-pt2-p338; !ORD: TIB: *Slake: End> 2090-3G-73; Sgeor: Bap> SG 91224 (1 Sep 1966), End> 59714-26 (10 Dec 1966); Manti: Bap> (22 May 1923), End> 14261-J2-517 (18 Jun 1930); SLAKE: Bap> (26 May 1934), End> 13910-5Q-607 (11 Jan 1935); FN #PZ7XVR;
=== BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH:"WELSH GENEALOGIES ===
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH:"WELSH GENEALOGIES AD300-1400," by Peter Clement Bartrum, published by The National Library of Wales, 1980. BIRTH -MARRIAGE:"A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK", by Theophilus Jones, pub. in London, England, in 1805. LDS FHC microfilm #0990114, p. 249.
Preferred Parents:
Mother: Elen Verch Einion, b. 1025 in Breconshire, Wales d. in Y, Somme, Picardie, France
Family 1: Elen ferch Tewdwr Mawr, b. ABT 1045 in Carmarthenshire, Wales d. 1093 in Brecon, Brecon, Wales
- Gwgon ap Bleddyn, Arglwydd of Cas wis, b. 1095 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales d. ABT 1165 in Haverfordwest St Mary, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Family 2: Elen Verch Tudur Mawr, b. 1060 in Wales d. NN
Family 3: Elen Ferch Tewdwr Mawr, b. 1045 in Dynevor, Carmarthen, Wales d. in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- m. 1060 in Carmenthenshire, Wales
- Caradog ap Bleddyn, b. ABT 1091 in Aberhonddu, Breconshire, Wales
- Mael ap Bleddyn, b. 1067 in Merionethshire, Wales d. 1097 in Wales
- Cadwgon ap Bleddyn, b. ABT 1093 in Aberhonddu, Breconshire, Wales
- Cuhelyn Fardd ap Gwynfardd, b. ABT 1077 in Of Cemais, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Gwgon ap Bleddyn, Arglwydd of Cas wis, b. 1095 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales d. ABT 1165 in Haverfordwest St Mary, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Cafwgon Ap Bleddyn,
Sources:
- Title: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-K3MJ : 15 June 2022), Bleddyn ap Maenyrch, ; Burial, Tregaron, , Ceredigion, Wales, Hen Fynachlog, Abaty Ystrad Fflur; citing record ID 122589483, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-K3MJ;
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch - Published information: birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
Note: Published information: birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
Published information: birth: 1044; Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
Published information: death: 1093; Breconshire, Wales
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3245383765
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch -
Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222795
- Title: Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the Marches; between the years 1586 and 1613, under the authority of Clarencieux and Norroy, two kings at arms
Author: by Dwnn, Lewys, d. 1616?; Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir, 1783-1848, ed; Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, Abergavenny Published 1846 Topics Visitations, Heraldic, Heraldry, genealogy
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/heraldicvisitati_01dwnn#page/90/mode/2up;
Note: Page 91 and page 108 gives pedigree of the Wogan family, This shows father and Mother and marriage (spouses)
Page 90 on the scroll bar this shows that Adam Stanton had a daughter Margaret who married Gwalter
Page 106 on the scroll bar shows relationship to William and Katrin and her father David
Page: Shows Pedigree from Him down to a William Wogan
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch -
Author: Biographical Cyclopedia of American Women; Mable Ward Cameron {1924-25}, Page number: 367
Note: Cites "History of Breckhockshire", Sir Joseph Russell Baily [ {1909} Vol. ii, pp 173, 174, 183, 255.16]; Miscellanea Genaelogica et Heraldica [Vol. iv, 3rd Ser, p 17.17]
Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742954
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch -
Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2941801618
- Title: UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Author: Find a Grave, Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60526&h=1124469&tid=58301757&pid=81013213068&hid=84620533197&usePUB=true&_phsrc=vsp344&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true;
Note: Name: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch
Death Date: 1093
Cemetery: Hen Fynachlog, Abaty Ystrad Fflur
Burial or Cremation Place: Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales
Has Bio?: N
Page: Shows Death year and Burial Place
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch -
Author: The Slack Family; Rev William Samuel Slack {1930}, Page number: chart 16a, taken from Pedigree for Griffith Bowen from Vol 8 of Prothrroes Collections
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742956
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch - birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
Author: Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;, www.ancestry.com, null, Page number: Database online.
Note: birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
aka-name: BLEDDYN APMAENYRCH
birth: 1044; Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
birth: 1044; Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
birth: 1044; Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
birth: 1044; Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
death: 1093; Brecon St John the Evangelist - Upper Division, Breconshire, Wales
death: 1093; Brecon St John the Evangelist - Upper Division, Breconshire, Wales
birth: 1165; Breconshire, Wales
birth: 1044; Breconshire, Wales
birth: 1044; Breconshire, Wales
death: 1093; Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales
death: 1093; Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales
death: 1093; Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales
death: 1093; Brecon St John the Evangelist - Upper Division, Breconshire, Wales
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247285388
- Title: A History of the County of Brecknock: In Two Volumes
Author: Google Books, By Theophilus Jones,Deputy Registrar of Breckon
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=QZDnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=HIstory+of+breckonshire&source=bl&ots=02J6OERjMC&sig=s_sxU9g6BewCcAtnUEeoRj1Bg7c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ-P_3n77MAhVRwmMKHS8fDhUQ6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=Wogan&f=false;
Note: Page341 shows pedigre of John Wogan and Anne Vaughan,
Page 412 shows Eldest son of Gwrgan is walter (Gwalter)
Page: Shows relationship to some of the Wogans in the tribe of Bleddyn
- Title: Y Cymmrodor byCymmrodorion Society, London; Cymmrodorion Society, London. Transactions, Old COunty Families of Dyfed Vol XV
Author: Google search for the book Old County Families of Dyfed in Y Cymmrodor Vol XV
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/ycymmrodor15cymmuoft/page/136;
Note: This book gives dates of birth and some lineage of the families in Wales especially Dyfed, page 123 shows relationship to spouse morris bowen
Page: page 101 shows relationship to son Gwgan and that he might have died 1090
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch -
Author: Jenkins Family Records; J Montgomery Seaver {1928}, Page number: 8
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742955
- Title: The History of the County of Brecknock
Author: Google search from Wikipedia sources
Publication: Name: https://www.library.wales/digital-exhibitions-space/digital-exhibitions/europeana-rise-of-literacy/history-books/a-history-of-the-county-of-brecknock#?c=&m=&s=&cv=214&xywh=617%2C549%2C2849%2C2426;
Note: Mentions marriage to William ap Thomas but does not mention children.
Page: Vol 2 page 204 on scroll bar page 164 in actual book shows a pedigree chart at the bottom shows that a Gwgan married a Gwenllian verch Gwys daughter of Philip Gwys and they had a son Sir Walter Wogan where the Wogans of wiston came from.
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch - aka-name: BLEDDYN APMAENYRCH
Author: Ancestry Family Trees, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;, Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, null, Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
Note: aka-name: BLEDDYN APMAENYRCH
This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree
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files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or
changed information since this source citation was created.
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247285382
- Title: Medieval Welsh ancestors of certain Americans :
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE523019;
Note: Rough Copy but it has on page 185 on the scroll bar and on page 168 of the actual book, Sir William Thomas and then down the paragraph has that his Daugther Margred married Henry Wogan Son of John Wogan.
Page: bottom of page 37 shows death year and relationship to spouse
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch - birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
Author: Millennium File, Heritage Consulting, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.Original data - Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA:;, Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, null
Note: birth-name: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=millind&h=10067878&ti=0&indiv=tr
y&gss=pt
birth: 1044; Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=millind&h=10067878&ti=0&indiv=tr
y&gss=pt
death: 1093; Brecon St John the Evangelist - Upper Division, Breconshire, Wales
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=millind&h=10067878&ti=0&indiv=tr
y&gss=pt
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247285403
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch -
Author: Welsh Genealogies, AD 300-1400; Peter C Bartrum, Page number: Tewdwr Mawr 1
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742563
- Title: A topographical dictionary of Wales, Volume 1
Author: Google Books
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=vQQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=Prince+of+Brycheiniog&source=bl&ots=eVfUqbtPs8&sig=6mfCCYDdHEoS8dOKhXViItkZeR8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwioyNbD277MAhVJ-2MKHa7CCvMQ6AEIMTAD#v=onepage&q=Bleddyn&f=false;
Note: Page 112 it states on right column that Bleddyn ap Maenarch grandson of Dryfin who married the sister of Rhys ap Tewdwr , the reigning sovereign of South Wales, was the last British Prince of Brycheiniog.
Page: Shows relationship to Grandfather and married in the Tewdwr family
- Title: p808 from The Beauties of England and Wales by Thomas Rees Vol 18 London 1815
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/ae998e9a-12e2-4f01-96ba-a19873c1f7bd/46611894/25564387574;
Note: Shows relationship to Father Bleddyn ab Maenarch Lord of Brecknock
Page: Shows that his son Gwgan married a daughter of Sir Phillips Gwys
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn Ap Maenyrch - birth: about 1044; Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Author: v11t4329.FTW, Not Given
Note: birth: about 1044; Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Source Media Type: Other
death: 1093; Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Source Media Type: Other
Source Media Type: Other
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222792
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bleddyn ap Maenyrch -
Author: Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members., Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
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