Gruffydd Vychan ap Iowerth

Gruffydd Vychan ap Iowerth
Born circa.1150
Died 1221

Gruffydd Vychan ap Iowerth Goch (1150 - 1221) was a medieval British knight and Marcher lord.

He was known by the epithet "Y Marchog Gwyllt o Cae Hywel" (the Wild Knight of Cae Howel),[1] Cae Howel being a Manor near Kinnerley, Shropshire [2][3][4]

He held the titles Knight of Rhodes and Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.[5]

He succeeded to his father's estates in Kinnerley.[6]

Family

Gruffydd was the eldest son of Iowerth Goch and Maud de Manly.

He married first, Matilda verch Ieuan, with whom he had the son Gruffydd Vychan ap Gruffydd (1190) of Cae Howel. This son was the first to hold the surname "Kynaston"

He married second, Matilda le Strange (1170), daughter of Guy le Strange, with whom he had the children Hywel ap Gruffydd and Sir Madog ap Gruffydd of Sutton Maddock, Shropshire.[7]

References

  1. (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 6 p. 362)
  2. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-256549-cae-howell-kinnerley-
  3. (Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, p. 122)
  4. (J-Morris, Shropshire Genealogies, vol. 2 p. 911)
  5. (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations of Wales, vol. 1 p. 326 fn. 6)
  6. (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 6 p. 362)
  7. http://www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org/shifnal/beckbury/sutton.htm
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