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Biography of Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal Queen Consort Deheubarth 1060-1137

Paternal Family Tree: Mathrathal

Around 1060 Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal was born to [her father] Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn Mathrafal.

Battle of Mechain

In 1069 at the Battle of Mechain fought in Radnorshire, Powys the brothers Maredudd Cadelling and Idwal Cadelling attempted to regain control of Radnorshire, Powys from brothers [her uncle] Bleddyn ap Cynfyn King Gwynedd King Powys and [her father] Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn Mathrafal. Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn Mathrafal and Idwal Cadelling were killed. Maredudd Cadelling died of exposure following the battle.

Around 1081 [her son] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth was born to Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth (age 16) and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal (age 21) at Llandeilo. He married 1113 his half second cousin once removed Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth, daughter of King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd and Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd, and had issue.

Around 1085 [her daughter] Nest ferch Rhys Dinefwr was born to Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth (age 20) and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal (age 25). She married before 1135 Gerald of Windsor and had issue.

Around 1113 [her son] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 32) and [her daughter-in-law] 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 1135 [her son-in-law] Gerald of Windsor (age 59) and [her daughter] Nest ferch Rhys Dinefwr (age 49) were married. She the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 74).

Before 1136 [her daughter] Nest ferch Rhys Dinefwr (age 50) died.

Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. 1137. [her son] Griffyth-ap-Rhys (age 56), king of Wales, perished through the artifices of his [her former daughter-in-law] 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 Cambrensis Itin. i., c. iv., and Dr. Powell's notes: see also Warrington's History of Wales, p. 293.

In April 1137 Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal (age 77) died.

Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth succeeded King Deheubarth. Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal by marriage Queen Consort Deheubarth.

[her son] Cadwgan Dinefwr was born to Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal .

[her son] Goronwy Dinefwr was born to Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal .

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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[her son] Hywel ap Rhys Dinefwr was born to Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal .

Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal were married. They were third cousins.

Royal Ancestors of Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal

Kings Gwynedd: Great Grand Daughter of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 3 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great Grand Daughter of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd

Royal Descendants of Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal
Number after indicates the number of unique routes of descent. Descendants of Kings and Queens not included.

Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth [1]

King Henry V of England [1]

Philippa Lancaster Queen Consort Denmark [1]

King Edward IV of England [2]

King Richard III of England [2]

Anne Neville Queen Consort England [2]

Queen Anne Boleyn of England [4]

Queen Jane Seymour [5]

Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [2]

Queen Catherine Howard of England [3]

Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland [5]

George Wharton [33]

President George Washington [2]

Brigadier-General Charles Fitz-Clarence [121]

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [506]

Queen Consort Camilla Shand [170]

Diana Spencer Princess Wales [1492]

Catherine Middleton Princess of Wales [5]

Ancestors of Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gwerystan ap Gwaithfoed Mathrafal

GrandFather: Cynfyn ap Gwersytan Mathrafal

Great x 1 Grandmother: Nest ferch Cadell ap Brochfael King Powys

Father: Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn Mathrafal

Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal Queen Consort Deheubarth