Caradog ap Iestyn 
Caradog ap Iestyn was born about 1062 in Afan,Glamorganshire,Wales.1 Caradog ap Iestyn's father was last Prince of Glamorgan, King of Morgannwg Iestyn ap Gwrgant and his mother is Constance Wen verch Cadwgan. His paternal grandparents are Prince of Powys Gwrgant ap Ithel and Gwladus verch Ednowen Bendew *; his maternal grandfather was Lord of Melienydd Cadwgan ap Elystan and his maternal grandmother is Efa verch Gwrgant. He has three brothers and a sister, named Rhys ap Iestyn, Morgan ap Iestyn, Madog ap Iestyn and Nesta verch Iestyn. He is the oldest of the five children. He has eleven half-brothers and three half-sisters, named Rhodri ap Iestyn, Gruffydd ap Iestyn, Morgan Hir ap Iestyn, Hywel ap Iestyn, Mareddud ap Iestyn, Cynfrig ap Iestyn, Cadogan ap Iestyn, Rhywallon ap Iestyn, Rhudlan ap Iestyn, Yoreth ap Iestyn, Meurig ap Iestyn, Sybil verch Iestyn, Gwenllian verch Iestyn and Ellen verch Iestyn.General Notes
Source: Williams/Rose Legacies
Title: Lord of Afan
Birth: ABT 1080 in Avan Wallia, Glamorganshire, Wales
Note: Caradog ap Iestyn (fl 1130), founder of the family of 'Avene' in Glamorgan, was a son of Iestyn ap Gwrgant. Iestyn if known to history from two entires in Liber Landavensis; in the first he appears low down in the list of lay witnesses to a grant in Edlygion made to bishop Herwald by Caradog ap Gruffydd; in the second he is himself a ruler, with a warband for whose misdeeds he makes amends to the same bishop by the gift of a manor in the Ely valley. It would, therefore, seem that Iestyn, on the death of Caradog, rose out of an obscure station to be the lord of Glamorgan and was the prince whom the Normans ejected when they attacked the region about 1090. The detailed account of the conquest given in Powel's Historie, 1584, confirmed as it is by no other source, must, however, be set aside as untrustworthy. Of Caradog, there is only one contemporary mention; with his brothers, Gruffydd and Goronwy, he was concerned in 1127 in a deed of violence, the bearing of which is uncertain. But it is clear that, on the collapse of Iestyn's rule, he received from Robert Fitz Hamon the land between Nedd and Afan (and perhaps more) as a subordinate holding, to be retained by his descendants for many generations. By his wife, Gwladus, daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys, he had four sons, Morgan, Maredudd, Owain, and Cadwallon; the first of these succeeded him in the lordship of Afan. [Dictionary of Welsh Biography p66]
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Title: History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, John Burke {1834-1838}
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Media: Book
Page: IV:653
Title: Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler; Josephine C Frost {1939}
Note: Cites as references for Welsh lineages: Royal Families of England, Scotland, Wales: Volume I & 2; Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World; Maunder's Biographical Treasures; Universial Biography; etc.
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Media: Book
Page: 438, 459
Title: Welsh Genealogies, AD 300-1400; Peter C Bartrum
Page: table Iestyn ap Gwrgan 2
Title: Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales; Dr Thomas Nicholas {1875}
Page: II:621
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1010 in Morgannwg
- b.~ 1045 in Morgannwg,Wales d.1093 in Monestery,Llangenyw,Denbighshire,Wales
- b.~ 1020 in Powys,Wales
- b.~ 1062 in Afan,Glamorganshire,Wales
- b.0903 in Powys,Wales
- b.0933 in Hereford Castle,Herfordshire d. in Cefndigoll,Wales
- b.~ 0975 in Wales d.1035
- b.0887 in Dynavor Castle,Llandilo,Carmarthenshire,Wales d.~ 0950
- b.~ 0927 in Dynavor Castle,Llandilo,Carmarthenshire,Wales
- b.~ 0893 in Dyfed,Wales d.~ 0943
- b.~ 0951 in Wales
- b.~ 1040 in Radnonshire,Wales
- b.~ 0930
- b.~ 0953
- b.~ 0979 in Glamorgan,Wales
- b.~ 0935
- b.~ 0957
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They had three sons and a daughter, named Rhys ap Caradog, Morgan ap Caradog, Mareddud ap Caradog and Margaret verch Caradog.
Family Notes
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Children
Lord of Avan Wallia Morgan ap Caradog *
Morgan ap Caradog was born in 1125 in Avan Wallia,Glamorganshire,Wales.3 He died at the age of 50 in 1175.4
Lord of Miskin Mareddud ap Caradog *
Mareddud ap Caradog was born about 1127 in Avan Wallia,Glamorganshire,Wales.3 He died in Miskin,Glamorganshire,Wales.5
1 GEDCOM: Hohelohe, Bethune Research
2 {Millenium File}
3 GEDCOM: Williams/Rose Legacies
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3 GEDCOM: Williams/Rose Legacies
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