Ieuan ap Gruffudd

Name: Ieuan ap Gruffudd Sir Knight 1 Sex: M Christening: Bryngwyn, Monmouthshire, Wales 1 Ancestral File #: 9HJQ-01 Birth: ABT 1348 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales 2 Occupation: 9th Lord of Grosmont 3 Occupation: Sir Knight 1 2 Birth: ABT 1344 in Glamorganshire, Wales 1 Name: Ieuan ap Gruffudd "Gethyn" Sir 2 Name: Ivan ap Gruffyd Gethin 3 Name: Evan ap Gruffudd Note:

   [Jane Williams Flank]

Sir Knight Ieuan ap Griffith Gethyn
Sir Knight Ieuan took over his grandfathers Knights of St. John's known as Ieuan's Hospice. Was 9th Lord of Grosmont, M.A. Oriel College, Oxford. (The following marriage may or may not be correct). Married Cecilia, daughter and heir of Sir Robert de Clare, 2nd son of Richard, 4th Earl of Hereford, by his wife the Lady Amina, daughter and co-heir with her sister Isabel (1st wife of King John) to William, Earl of Gloucester. Other possible wives were Crisli verch Gawdyn; Cecil verch aydan and Cecil Llewely. NOTE:Mathew of Llandaff, Radir, C. This very ancient and long continuing family derived from Gwilyn, son of Gwaethfoed, Lord of Cardigan by Morfydd, dau. of Ynyr, King of Gwent, throught Gruffydd Gethin, ranked as tenth from Gwaethfoed, Ivan ap Gruffyd Gethin, who married Cecil, daug. and heiress of Watkin Llewelyn of Llandaff, of the lineage of Iestyn ap Gwrgant. He settled at Llandaff, his son, Mathew Ieuan Gruffydd, and his Grandson, David Mathew, introduced the surname which never ceased for twelve generations. They intermarried with the Flemings of Flemingston, Morgans of Tredegar, Gamages of Coity, Stradlings of St. Donats, and branched off at early periods into the vigorous families of Mathew of Castell Menych (Monk's Castle) and Mathew of Radir, Mathew of Aberaman and Mathew of Sweldom and Llancalach, all of whom are now extinct. The house of Llandaff supplied Sheriffs for Glamorgan in the years 1546, 1746 and member of Parliament in the person of Thomas Mathew, father and son in 1744, 1756. This same Thomas Mathew, Sen., of Llandaff, was Rear Admiral and Admiral of the White; and Thomas the son was a Major in the Army. In his election he polled 954 votes against 212 given for his opponent, Charles Van, Esq., By his wife, Anne, daughter of Robert Knight, Esq., of Sutturn, he had, besides several other children, a son, also named Thomas Mathew, Esq., of Llandaff. The Sheriff of 1769 who died 1771, s.p. the Mathews of Llandaff bore the arms of Gwaethfoed-or, a Lion rampany regardant sa. crowned GU).
From the Mathews Genealogical Research Foundation website.
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Father: Gruffudd "Gethin" ap Madog Sir of Coity b: ABT 1325 in Coity, Bridgend, Wales Mother: Joan verch Rhun b: ABT 1329 in Kibbor Hundred, Senghenydd, Glamorganshire, Wales

Marriage 1 Crisli verch Gawdyn b: ABT 1344 in Miskin, Penychen, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales

   Married: ABT 1365 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales 1

Children

   Has Children Elen verch Ieuan b: ABT 1366 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has No Children Madog ap Ieuan b: ABT 1370 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has Children Matthew ap Ieuan Sir Knight b: ABT 1378 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has Children Joan verch Ieuan b: ABT 1378 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has No Children Evan ap Evan b: ABT 1380 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has No Children Llewelyn ap Evan b: ABT 1381 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has No Children Owen ap Evan b: ABT 1383 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has No Children Rhys ap Evan b: ABT 1385 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

   Has No Children Maud verch Evan b: ABT 1387 in Castell Kibwr, Brynwith, Glamorganshire, Wales

Sources:

   Title: Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson

   Repository:

       Name: Kirk Larson Private Library

   Note:

   Personal Research Works including Bethune & Hohenlohe Descendants, 1981-2001

   Title: Jim Weber

   Repository:

       Name: RootsWeb's WorldConnect

   Text: Date of Import: Feb 17, 2009

   Title: Jane Williams Flank

   Repository:

       Name: RootsWeb's WorldConnect