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Paternal Family Tree: Aberffraw
Maternal Family Tree: Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd 1065-1162
In or before 1100 [her father] King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 44) and [her mother] Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 34) were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Cynan ab Iago King Gwynedd and [her grandmother] Ragnaillt Unknown Queen Consort Gwynedd. They were second cousin once removed.
Around 1100 Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth was born to King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 45) and Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 35).
Around 1113 Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 32) and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 13) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Deheubarth. She the daughter of King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 58) and Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 48). He the son of Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 53). They were half second cousin once removed.
Before 1130 [her brother] Owain "Great" King Gwynedd (age 29) and [her sister-in-law] Gwladus Unknown Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 14) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Gwynedd. He the son of [her father] King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 74) and [her mother] Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 64).
In 1130 Maredudd King Deheubarth was born to [her husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 49) and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 30).
In 1132 Rhys ap Gruffydd "The Lord Rhys" Dinefwr was born to [her husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 51) and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 32). He married 1155 his first cousin Gwenllian ferch Madog Mathrafal, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd Mathrafal Prince Powys and Susanna Aberffraw, and had issue.
In 1136 a battle, or skirmish, was fought at Maes Gwenllian [Map] between the Welsh forces of Gwenllian (age 36), wife of [her husband] Gruffydd (age 55), with her two sons, and the Norman force of Maurice de Londres. Gwenllian and her two sons were killed.
Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. 1137. [her former husband] Griffyth-ap-Rhys (age 56), king of Wales, perished through the artifices of his wife.1
Note 1. So far from this being the case, Gwenlian, the wife of Griffythap-Rhys, prince of South Wales, a woman of a gallant spirit, seconded her husband's efforts for independence, and, in his absence, took the field in person at the head of her forces. See Giraldus Cambreensis Itin. i., c. iv., and Dr. Powell's notes: see also Warrington's History of Wales, p. 293.
Nest Dinefwr was born to [her former husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth.
Elizabeth Dinefwr was born to [her former husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth.
Morgan Dinefwr was born to [her former husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth.
Maelgwn Dinefwr was born to [her former husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth.
Gwladus Dinefwr was born to [her former husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth.
Kings Gwynedd: Grand Daughter of Cynan ab Iago King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 5 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Cadell ap Brochfael King Powys
Great x 4 Grandfather: Idwal ap Anaward "Foel aka Bald" King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandfather: Meurig ap Idwal Aberffraw
Great x 2 Grandfather: Idwal ap Meurig Aberffraw
Great x 1 Grandfather: Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig Aberffraw Prince Gwynedd
GrandFather: Cynan ab Iago King Gwynedd
Father: King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd
Great x 2 Grandfather: Sitric Silkbeard King Dublin
Great x 1 Grandfather: Olaf mac Sitriuc
GrandMother: Ragnaillt Unknown Queen Consort Gwynedd
Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth
Great x 4 Grandfather: Owain King Deheubarth
Great x 3 Grandfather: Einion Dinefwr
Great x 2 Grandfather: Gronwy Ap Einion Dinefwr
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edwin of Tegeingl
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ælfgar Earl of Mercia and East Anglia
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edwin Earl of Mercia
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ethelfleda or Aldgyth of Mercia
GrandFather: Owain ab Edwin
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gwerystan ap Gwaithfoed Mathrafal
Great x 2 Grandfather: Cynfyn ap Gwersytan Mathrafal
Great x 3 Grandmother: Nest ferch Cadell ap Brochfael King Powys
Great x 1 Grandmother: Iwerydd Mathrafal
Great x 3 Grandfather: Sitric Silkbeard King Dublin
Great x 2 Grandmother: Unnamed d Sitric Silkbeard King Dublin
Mother: Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd