Tudur Hen
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Tudur Hen or Tudur ap Goronwy (d. 1311) was a Welsh
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 aristocrat and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd
Tudors of Penmynydd
The Tudors of Penmynydd was a noble and aristocratic family, connected with the village of Penmynydd in Anglesey, North Wales who were very influential in Welsh politics....

, Anglesey
Anglesey
Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

, North Wales
North Wales
North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

. His father Goronwy ab Ednyfed
Goronwy ab Ednyfed
Goronwy ab Ednyfed was senechal to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Kingdom of Gwynedd between 1246 and 1256. and was the founder of the Tudor family of Penmynydd:...

 (d.1268) was seneschal to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
Llywelyn the Last
Llywelyn ap Gruffydd or Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf , sometimes rendered as Llywelyn II, was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by Edward I of England....

, Kingdom of Gwynedd
Kingdom of Gwynedd
Gwynedd was one petty kingdom of several Welsh successor states which emerged in 5th-century post-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages, and later evolved into a principality during the High Middle Ages. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the...

 between 1246 and 1256. In 1263 he led a military campaign in Gwent.

Tudur Hen (Tudur the Elder) took part in the Madog ap Llywelyn
Madog ap Llywelyn
Madog ap Llywelyn, or Prince Madoc, was from a junior branch of the House of Aberffraw and a distant relation of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last recognised native Prince of Wales.-Lineage:...

 uprising, and is named as Madog's steward in the so-called Penmachno Document
Penmachno Document
The Penmachno Document was drawn up at Penmachno in Gwynedd on 19 December 1294 by Madog ap Llywelyn at the height of his revolt against English rule in Wales...

. He married Angharad ferch Ithel Fychan, and was a very wealthy landowner.

He died in 1311 and was buried in the Dominican friary at Bangor.
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