Angharad ferch Llywelyn
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Angharad ferch Llywelyn was a daughter of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...

. The identity of her mother is uncertain; but several later genealogical sources give Llywelyn's consort Joan, Lady of Wales
Joan, Lady of Wales
Joan, Princess of Wales and Lady of Snowdon was the wife of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Wales and Gwynedd and effective ruler of most of Wales.-Early life:...

 as her mother. She is almost absent from contemporary records, however she is mentioned in a document dated 1260. It has been postulated that she may have been illegitimate. She married Maelgwn Fychan of Deheubarth, a descendant of the Lord Rhys; their descendants included Elen ferch Thomas of Isceod, mother of Owain Glyndwr
Owain Glyndwr
Owain Glyndŵr , or Owain Glyn Dŵr, anglicised by William Shakespeare as Owen Glendower , was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales...

, the last native prince of Wales. Ellen's sister, Margaret ferch Thomas of Iscoed, was, by her marriage to Tudor Fychan, an ancestor of the Royal House of Tudor.

Reference

  • Huw Pryce (ed.), Acts of Welsh Rulers 1120-1283 (Cardiff, 2005), p. 202.
  • Visitation of Shropshire 1623 by R Tresswell Somerset Herald with other sources of years 1569 & 1584
  • Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700 (2008).
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