Gruffudd Ap LLEWELYN, Prince Of Gwynedd

Abt 1206 - 1244  (~ 38 years)

• Name	Gruffudd Ap LLEWELYN  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	Prince Of Gwynedd
  Birth	Abt 1206	Gwynedd, Caernarvonshire, Wales   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  _FSFTID	LD9W-M2B
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LD9W-M2B
  _UID	6892E51064D34CEF9025C74B31A37CCF479C
  Death	1 Mar 1243-1244	Fall From Tower Of London, Middlesex, England   [1, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I11829	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Llewelyn Ap IORWERTH, Prince Of Wales,   b. 1173, Aberffraw Castle, Aberffraw, Anglesy, Wales d. 11 Apr 1240, Conwy, Caernarfonshire, Wales (Age 67 years)
  Mother	"Joan" Tangwystl Verch LLYWARCH,   b. Abt 1178, Rhos, Denbighshire, Wales d. Abt 1206 (Age ~ 28 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1205	Cheshire, England   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F5550	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, Prince of Gwynedd. [Burke's Peerage] --------------------------- The following post to SGM, 17 Feb 2003, by Becky Thill is mostly about Gruffudd's brother Dafydd, who was a disastrous Prince of Cymru for 6 years, but it had the following excerpt on Gruffudd: But Davydd was not the only son of Llywelyn. There had been another, Gruffydd, a handsome giant of a prince, born of a Cymric Mother. Llywelyn had weighed his two sons in his mind as to which would be the better ruler for the land. Davydd's mother was sister of the King of England - surely the King of England would be less the enemy of his nephew than of Gruffydd. So thought Llywelyn, and accordingly he made Davydd his heir; the one tragic mistake which undid all that he had accomplished in his own strenuous life. Gruffydd, with his turbulent valour, could not have brought his country lower than his brother's smoothness brought it. He might have saved it. Davydd had handed over his brother Gruffydd to the King of England as a prisoner. The king sent him to the Tower of London. One night Gruffydd made a rope of his clothes and began to let himself down out of his window to escape. The rope broke, and Gruffydd was killed, his neck being broken by the fall. But he left four sons, Owen, Llywelyn, Davydd and Rhodri. Owen and Llywelyn seized the crown of Gwynedd between them when their uncle Davydd died. Now King Henry claimed all the land as his own, for, amongst the rest of Davydd's doings, he had agreed that, if he died childless, Henry should be his heir and take the country. It would be hard to find words severe enough to describe such a transaction as that. [Flame-Bearers of Welsh History, "The Sons of Cunedda" by Owen Rhoscomyl, School Edition, 1905 The Welsh Ed. Pub. Co. Merthry Rydfil, part one, p. 177 XLIX, THE RISE OF LLYWELYN III]

  
  

• Sources

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