Rhys ap Tudur Fychan

Correct d.o.b. is c. 1330. This was NOT the Rhys ap Tudor involved in the Owain Glendwr rebellion. That Rhys ap Tudor was born c. 1365 (Rhys ap Tudor):

Please see Darrell Wolcott: The Welsh Ancestry of the Tudor Dynasty; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id217.html. (Steven Ferry, April 8, 2020.)

Please see Darrell Wolcott: Pedigree of Madog ap Idnerth; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id267.html; [#87]. (Steven Ferry, June 18, 2021.)

Biography

A Welsh nobleman and a key figure in the revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr (Glyndŵr/Glendower). A descendant of Ednyfed Fychan, he was escheator and sheriff of Anglesey before the revolt, and served as esquire of Richard II in the 1390s. He held the offices of sheriff and escheator of Anglesey as well as the Forester of Snowdon. On the outbreak of the revolt, Rhys and his brother Gwilym joined Glyndŵr, but were excluded from a general pardon issued after the initial rebel attacks of autumn 1400. Perhaps in response to this omission, on Good Friday 1401 (April) they captured Conwy Castle in a surprise attack and held it for almost three months.[1] Rhys was eventually captured, executed at Chester in 1412, and most of the lands of the Penmynydd family were forfeited.[2] His other lands were passed on to Gwilym ap Gruffudd.[1]

 England under Henry IV 1399-1413 

Meanwhile a peasants revolt in Wales led Owain Glyndwr (Owen Glendower) to proclaim himself Prince of Wales on September 16, 1400, and he promised to liberate the Welsh from English oppression. Most of the sheriffs in Anglesey, Caernarfon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Flint went over to Glyndwr. He and his men burned Ruthin two days later, and they plundered English settlements at Denbigh, Rhuddlan, Flint, Hawarden, and Holt; but on the 24th the English led by Hugh Burnell defeated them near Welshpool. Henry IV led his army into Wales in October, and many of the Welsh but none of the rebels made peace. His son Henry established his headquarters as prince of Wales in Chester.

In March 1401 Henry IV pardoned the rebels except for Glyndwr’s relatives. On Good Friday Rhys the Black of Erddreiniog and Gwilym ap Tudur ap Goronwy attacked Conway castle. In June Glyndwr won a victory over the English at Hyddgen, and he was welcomed in the Tywi valley that summer. In October the King led another punitive expedition in north Wales, and many of the Welsh submitted in the south. Glyndwr pillaged Ruthin, and he captured Reginald de Grey in April 1402 and Edmund Mortimer on June 22. He ransomed Grey for 10,000 marks in November, but the English would not ransom Mortimer. Glyndwr was welcomed in southeast Wales in August. Edmund Mortimer became Glyndwr’s ally and married his daughter Catrin in November. Henry IV raised money from loans and accepted petitions to sanction Wales so that no Welshman could buy land in England. In October the Parliament passed Penal Laws for Wales to strengthen English control, but the trade ban was disobeyed by those smuggling goods. The Welsh and Englishmen who married Welsh women were not allowed to carry arms or live in fortified towns.[2]

 excerpt from the National Library of Wales 

In the next generation the brothers TUDUR and HYWEL ap, both of whom d. c. 1367, are found in possession of Trecastell, Erddreiniog, and half of Penmynydd in Anglesey and ‘Gavell Gron. ap Eden.’ (which included the nucleus of the later Penrhyn estate — see below), and half of ‘Gavell Kennyn’ in Crewyrion in Caerns., as well as the Cardiganshire possessions mentioned above. Their possessions in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire passed to Tudur's sons — GORONWY OF PENMYNYDD (d. 1382), EDNYFED OF TRECASTELL (d. c. 1382), RHYS OF ERDDREINIOG, GWILYM OF CLORACH, and MAREDUDD, whose precise share of the family inheritance is not known. Goronwy, Rhys, and Gwilym were in the personal following of Richard II. Maredudd, father of Owain Tudur and great-grandfather of Henry VII (see the article Tudors of Penmynydd), is a more shadowy figure; he was escheator of Anglesey before 1392 and is described in 1404 as an esquire to the bishop of Bangor. The three surviving brothers and their near kinsmen were prominent supporters of Owain Glyn Dŵr (q.v.). Rhys was executed at Chester in 1412. The greater part of their lands were forfeited to the Crown and came into the possession of the Griffiths of Penrhyn (q.v.), also descended from Ednyfed Fychan through Tudur ab Ednyfed. A remnant of the Tudor lands at Penmynydd remained in the possession of the descendants of Goronwy ap Tudur (d. 1382) through his daughter Morfydd and her husband, Gwilym ap Gruffydd of Penrhyn.[3]

 Sources 

EDNYFED ap CYNWRIG The National Library of Wales.

Rhys ap Tudur

England of Henry IV, V, and VI 1399-1461; by Sanderson Beck; Copyright © 2010 by Sanderson Beck

The Ancestors of Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London (d. 1607); A continuation of the ancestry of Henry Stratton and a plausible continuation of the ancestry of William Addams Reitwiesner

 Footnotes  1.↑ wikipedia article. Entered by Michelle Brooks. 2.↑ England of Henry IV 3.↑ EDNYFED ap CYNWRIG The National Library of Wales. entered 2013-12-09 by Michelle

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