Trahaearn ap Caradog

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173393022971 Trahaearn ap Caradog (November 3, 2023; Anne Brannen, curator)

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6516/TABLES%... (May 31, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6516/TABLES%... (May 27, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)

See Darrell Wolcott, "The Pedigree of Cynddelw Gam," http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id94.html for untangling and clarification of these lines. (January 17, 2016, Anne Brannen, curator)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Pedigree of Cynddelw Gam of Ystrad Alun; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id94.html; [#37] [#51] (Steven Ferry, November 17, 2017.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Bartrum's "Pedigrees of the Welsh Tribal Patriarchs" #19 Gruffudd Fraslwyd; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id189.html. (Steven Ferry, September 27, 2019.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Ancient Powys; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id79.html. (Steven Ferry, October 8, 2019.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Royal Family of Gwynedd - History of Gruffudd ap Cynan, a New Perspective; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id46.html. (Steven Ferry, December 1, 2019.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Royal Family of Gwynedd - The Unofficial "History" of Gruffudd, Nephew of Iago; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id74.html. (Steven Ferry, December 4, 2019.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Royal Family of Gwynedd - The Children of Gruffudd, Nephew of Iago; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id80.html. (Steven Ferry, December 13, 2019.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Llowarch ap Bran - Lord of Menai; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id32.html. (Steven Ferry, March 5, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Shropshire Walcot Family- Chart III: First Powys Dynasty; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id98.html. (Steven Ferry, May 17, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Shropshire Walcot Family - Chart IV: Arwystli Dynasty; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id95.html. (Steven Ferry, May 23, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Shropshire Walcot Family - Chart V: The Buellt/Fferlys Dynasty; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id96.html. (Steven Ferry, May 24, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Battle of Mynydd Carn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id35.html. (Steven Ferry, May 26, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Edwin of Tegeingl and His Family - Uchdryd ap Edwin - the Younger Son; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id86.html. (Steven Ferry, June 11, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Trahaearn ap Caradog of Arwystli; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id68.html. (Steven Ferry, July 7, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Cadafael Ynfyd of Cydewain; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id150.html. (Steven Ferry, July 10, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Maredudd ap Robert, Lord of Cedewain; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id67.html. (Steven Ferry, July 12, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Cadwgan of Nannau; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id66.html. (Steven Ferry, July 16, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Two Families Headed by a Rhydderch ap Iestyn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id212.html. (Steven Ferry, July 18, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Consorts and Children of Gruffudd ap Llewelyn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id210.html. (Steven Ferry, July 22, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Owain ap Cadwgan and Nest ferch Rhys-an Historic Fiction?; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id160.html. (Steven Ferry, August 14, 2020)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The "Sons" of Owain ap Cadwgan ap Bleddyn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id159.html. (Steven Ferry, August 15, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The "Betrayal" by Meirion Goch Revisited; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id90.html. (Steven Ferry, August 15, 2020.)

Please see Darrel Wolcott: The Family of Trahaearn ap Caradog; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id240.html. (Steven Ferry, August 29, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Pedigree of Madog ap Idnerth; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id267.html; [#1;20;93]. (Steven Ferry, June 17, 2021.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Lineage of Pebid Penllyn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id288.html. (Steven Ferry, January 7, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Men of Pennant Melangell in Mochnant; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id289.html. (Steven Ferry, February 8, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Clan of Tudor Trevor; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id55.html. (Steven Ferry, May 5, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id293.html (Steven Ferry, May 8, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Hywel ap Maredudd ap Bleddyn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id295.html. (Steven Ferry, August 18, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Iorwerth Drwyndwn; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id300.html (Steven Ferry, September 5, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Kingship of Gwynedd - 1170 to 1175: http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id301.html (Steven Ferry, September 8, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Childrn of Owain Gwynedd; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id302.html (Steven Ferry, September 11, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: King Llewelyn ap Iorwerth and Ednyfed Fychan; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id308.html (Steven Ferry, November 25, 2022.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Rhiryd ap Rhiwallon - Who Was He?; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id323.html (Steven Ferry, March 27, 2024.)

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King of Powys and Gwynedd 1075-1081.

TRAHAEARN ap CARADOG (d. 1081 ), king of Gwynedd . He is said to have been the son of one Caradog ap Gwyn ap Collwyn and a cousin of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (q.v.) . By natural right ruler of Arwystli , his career between 1075 and 1081 is one of the foremost illustrations in Welsh history of how a bold and ambitious personality among the minor lords of Wales could usurp regal powers over an extensive area at moments when the fortunes of the major dynasties were at a low ebb. On Bleddyn 's death in 1075 , he seized authority in Gwynedd . Challenged by Gruffudd ap Cynan (q.v.) , the representative of the old Venedotian house, he was defeated at Dyffryn Glyngin in Meirionydd , but later in the year he retrieved himself at Bron yr Erw and drove Gruffudd into second exile in Ireland . In 1078 he invaded South Wales and killed its king ( Rhys ab Owain ) at Goodwick . The general threat to old established interests eventually brought Gruffudd and Rhys ap Tewdwr (q.v.) into alliance, and together they imposed a crushing defeat on their opponent at the well-known battle of Mynydd Carn , fought in 1081 , and in which Trahaearn met his end. He left four sons — Meurig , Griffri , Llywarch , and Owain . His descendants ruled in Arwystli until it was absorbed into Powys by Gwenwynwyn (q.v.) . A grand-daughter, Gwladus , m. Owain Gwynedd (q.v.) ; her son was Iorwerth Drwyndwn (q.v.) , father of Llywelyn the Great (q.v.) .

Trahaearn ap Caradog (d 1081), king of Gwynedd. He is said to have been the son of one Caradog ap Gwyn ap Collwyn and a cousin of Gleddyn ap Cynfyn. By natural right ruler of Arwystli, his career between 1075 and 1081 is one of the foremost illustration in Welsh history of how a bold and ambitious personality among the minor lords of Cymru could usurp regal powers over an extensive area at moments when the fortunes of the major dynasties were at a low ebb. On Bleddyn's death in 1075, he seized authority in Gwynedd. Challenged by Gruffudd ap Cynan, the representative of the old Venedotian house, he was defeated at Dyffryn Glyngin in Meirionydd, but later in the year he retrieved himself at Bron yr Erw and drove Gruffudd inot second exile in Ireland. In 1078 he invaded South Cymru and killed its king (Rhys ab Owain) at Goodwick. The general threat to old established interests eventually brought Gruffudd and Rhys ap Tewdwr into alliance, and together they imposed a crushing defeat on their opponent at the well-known battle of Mynydd Carn, fought in 1081, and in which Trahaearn met his end. He left four sons - Meurig, Griffri, Llywarch, and Owain, His descendants ruled in Arwystli until it was absorbed into Powys by Gwenwynwyn. A grand-daughter, Gwladus, m Owain Gwynedd; her son was Iorwerth Drwyndwn father of Llewelyn the Great. [Dictionary of Welsh Biography p976] ....................................

Trahaearn ap Caradog (d. 1081) Welsh prince, was according to the heralds (Lewis Dwnn, i. 266; "History of Powys Fadog", i. 72), the son of Caradog ap Gwyn ap Collwyn. Originally lord of Arwystli (the region around Llanidoles), he became in 1075, on the death of his cousin Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, ruler of the greater part of North Cymru. His claim was at once contested by Gruffydd ab Cynan, representing the old line of Gwynedd, who defeated Trahaearn at Gwaeterw in the region of Meirionydd, but was himself worsted at Bron yr Erw later in the year and forced to return to Ireland. In 1078 Trahaearn defeated at "Pwllgudic' Rhys ab Owain (d. 1078?) of south Cymru, who was soon afterwards slain. His power brough about a coalition between Gruffydd ap Cynan and Rhys ap Tewdwr, who in 1081 led a joint expedition against him from St David's, and defeated him and his allies at Mynydd Carn (South Cardiganshire), in which Trahaearn fell. The battle is commemorated in a poem by Meilyr Byrdydd (in 'Myvyrian Archaiology,' 2nd edit., p 142). Robert of Rhuddlan's epitaphe attributed to him a victory over 'Trehelium.' Trahaearn left four sons: Meurig and Griffri, both slain in 1106; Llywarch (d. 1128?), lord of Arwystli and Owain, grandfather of Hywel ab Ieuaf, who ruled the district in Henry II's reign. [Dictionary of National Biography; George Smith, Fd., Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, Ed., 1953; Vol XIX, p 1074, Trahaearn ap Caradog] ....................................

TRAHAEARN AP CARADOG (1.1081), King of Gwynedd, ap Gwyn ap Gollwyn. 1 Sable, three fleurs-de-lis Argent. (p: WC 1, 26r; WC 2, 317; Pen.l48B, 14v) 2 Argent, a lion rampant Gules, crowned Or. (d: WC 4, 159)

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Dictionary of Welsh Biography
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