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Lord of Penllyn  Arms of Rririd Flaidd BIRTH: Abt 1150 in Mochnant, Swydd y Waun, Powys, Wales DEATH: possibly in Rhiwaedog, Merionethshire, Wales FATHER: *Gwrgeneu ap COLLWYN - BIRTH: Abt 1130 in Mochnant, Swydd y Waun, Powys, Wales MOTHER: *Generys verch CYNFYN HIRDREF - BIRTH: Abt 1133 in Nefyn, Caernarvonshire, Wales MARRIAGE: Abt 1175 - *Gwenllian verch EDNYFED - BIRTH: 1155 in Is Dulus, Denbighshire, Wales CHILDREN: 1. Gwenllian verch RHIRID-FLAIDD - Birth: Abt 1185 in Rhiwaedog, Merionethshire, Wales 2. Einion ap RHIRID-FLAIDD - Birth: Abt 1188 in Rhiwaedog, Merionethshire, Wales 3. *Madog ap RHIRID-FLAIDD - Birth: Abt 1190 in Rhiwaedog, Merionethshire, Wales 4. Rhys ap RHIRID-FLAIDD - Birth: Abt 1192 in Rhiwaedog, Merionethshire, Wales 5. Meredydd ap RHIRID-FLAIDD - Birth: Abt 1194 in Rhiwaedog, Merionethshire, Wales 6. Rhirid Vychan ap RHIRID-FLAIDD - Birth: Abt 1198 in Rhiwaedog, Merionethshire, Wales  "RHIRID FLAIDD (or Rhirid the wolf), son of Gwrgenen, was, like his father, Lord of Penllyn, and lived during the reigns of Henry II and Richard I, Kings of England." "Although believed to have been of Norman blood, on his mother's side, yet the evidence collected thus far upon this point, is so slight that it was deemed inadvisable to introduce it here without further investigation. He was a distinguished warrior and chieftain and was designated by the Bards as a "wolf of the field of battle." He resided in his principal castle called "Neuaddau Gleision" in the township of Rhiwaedog, was a friend of the Norman English, when it suited his purposes, and was entrusted by them with several high offices within the bounds of his own domains. He married Gwenllian, daughter of the Lord of Broughton, and had three children. " (The Ancestry Of Edward Foulke, Of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. By Charles M. Ffoulke) "Rhirid Flaidd was an unchelwr and chief proprietor of Pennant Melangell, Montgomeryshire, and is styled arglwydd [lord] of Penllyn, but his interests in that cymwd were probably merely governmental, for although his great grandson had a grant of land there from Edward I., Rhirid's possessions were principally, if not altogether, elsewhere." (Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania, Thomas Allen Glenn, Gen. Pub. Co. 2 vols in 1, 1970, Text: pg. 3) The Welsh chronicles indicate that Rhririd Flaidd, "who dwelt at Rhiwaedog", living in the later half of the twelfth century. Details found in the "Annals of Antiquities fo the Counties and County Families of Wales" (in the chapter devorted to Merionethshire), concerning him and others of North Wales trace their descent from him. Page 678 says: "This distinguished man, Lord of Penllyn (a cnatref containing five parishes north of the Bala Lake), Eifonydd, Pennant, Melangell, and Glyn, in Powis, and, as some say, of eleven towns or trefs in the hundred of Oswestry, has been occasionally described, but erroneously, as founder of one of the fifteen noble tribes of North Wales. At the same time his territories were larger and his influence much more extensive than those of several of the founders of noble tribes. He flourished at the time of Henry II, and his son Richard I. Paternally his descent was from Cynedda Wledig, but maternally it is alleged that his lineage was Norman, his mother being a descendant of Richard, Earl of Avranches, by his son William, whose brother was Hugh Lupus Earl of Chester. Whether Rhirid was called Flaidd (the wolf), from a cognomen of his maternal ancestors, or from the possession of a hungry and savage nature, it is not easy to say. His eldest son Madoc had a son, Rhirid Fychan (the younger, or the little), who married into the family of Fychan (Vaughan), of Nannau, and from him were descended the subsequents Vaughans of Nannau and Rhug. From his son David Pothon, who married Cicely, daughter of Sir Alexander Myddleton, Lord of Myddelton, in Shropshire, the Myddletons of Chirk Castle were descended, retaining the maternal name." |
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A POEM WRITTEN FOR RHIRID FLAIDD Cynddelw thanks Rhirid Flaidd for the Gift of a Sword I have a wolf who loves me from having me by him as a check on presumption, not the forest wolf that has lost its holding but the wolf of battle, courteous and generous I wear a fame scattering sword on my thigh between my body and my shield, a sword with fine bosses the sword of the intrepid Rhirid Flaidd. Proprietor of Pennant, chief nobleman, leader of noblemen, I sing not to the wolf of prey but to the wolf who is the leader of the bravest. Author: Cynddelw Brynn Mawr (c1135-1200 - Bard)
Sources: 1. The Flude Genealogy Website 2. Ancestors of a 21st century British family by Richard Hodgson 3. Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd Howard M. Jenkins, Second Edition, 1897 4."Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families": by John Edwards Griffith, 1914 ed. Text: p. 269 MEYLLTEYRN, Lleyn. Rhirid Flaidd; p. 280 Rhirid Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn: Gwenllian, d. of Ednyfed ap Cynwrig ap Rhiwallen, of Maelor Gymraeg. p. 394 Rhirid Flaidd p. 280 = Gwenllian, d. of Ednyfed ap Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon, Tribe of Rhirid Flaidd. 5. The Ancestry Of Edward Foulke, Of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. By Charles M. Ffoulke 6. The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 (Arms and Heraldry) Text: p. 388 Owen of Orwaldal and Shrewsbury. Harl. 1396, fo. 250, S., ff. 219b, 220a. Arms: Harl. 1396 - Quarterly of six: 1, Vert, a chevron between three wolves' heads erased argent [Ririd Vlaidd]; 2, Ermine, a lion passant - guardant gules [Ednyfed ap Cynrig ap Rhiwallon]; 3, Sable, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis argent [Meredd ap Colwyn]; 4, Argent, a cross engrailed fleury sable between four Cornish choughs proper [Edwyn of Tegaingle]; 5, Argent, a lion rampant sable [Madoc ap Urian]; 6, Gules, six fleurs-de-lis, three two and one, argent [Ireland] ; over all a label on a crescent for difference. Crest. - A wolf passant argent, a crescent for diffferenc. Reridd Vlaidd Do[minus] de Penllyn et Brynne ob. 1108 - Gwenllian filia Edneuette ap Kendrick ap Rywallan. [Arms; Ermine, a lion passant-guardant gules.]. 7. Historical Collections Relating To Gwynedd, 2nd ed. Howard M. Jenkins 1897 8. Arms according to Dwnn Text: Vert, a chevron between three wolves heads erased, arg. - the insignia of Rhirid Flaidd 9. Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania, Thomas Allen Glenn, Gen. Pub. Co. 2 vols in 1, 1970 Text: pg. 3 10. Becky Thill's Genealogy: HOME ALPHABETICAL INDEX
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