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Nest verch Deheubarth Rhys

Nest was born about 1073 in Dynevor, Wales.¹ Nest's father was King Rhys ap Tewdwr and her mother was Gladys verch Rhywallon. Her paternal grandparents were Tewdwr (Mawr, The Great) ap Cadell and <Unknown>. She had a half-brother named Geraldus. She died about 1163.²

General Notes
- # Note:
  
  Nest (who also [in addition to Gerald fitz Walter] had by Stephen, Constable of Cardigan, a son (Robert fitz Stephen) and by Henry I another son (Henry, killed 1158, father of Meiler fitz Henry), daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales. [Burke's Peerage, p. 1679]
  
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  He [Gerald de Windsor] married Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, PRINCE OF SOUTH WALES (e). The date of his death is not known, presumably before 1136. [Complete Peerage X:10-11, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  # Note:
  
  (e) In 1106, when Owen ap Cadugan carried her off, two of her sons and a daughter by Gerald de Windsor were taken with her, the sons being returned later to their father. By Stephen, constable of Cardigan (query after Gerald's death), Nest bore a son, Robert FitzStephen, and by Henry I a son Henry (killed 1158), father of Meiler FitzHenry, which Robert and Meiler were later brothers-in-arms of the Geraldines in Ireland.
  
  # Note:
  
  Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
  Page: 496, 1679
  
  Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
  Page: 33a-23
  
  Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
  Page: X:11

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Gwerystan ap Gwaithford ^*
  - b.0954 in Powys, Wales d.1005
  
  Cynfyn ap Gwerstan
  - b.0978 in Powysland, Wales
  
  Nest verch Cadell
  - b.~  0970 in Powys, Wales
  
  Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn
  - b.~  1000 in Powys, Wales d.1069
  
  Maredydd ap Owain ^*
  - b.~  0938 in Dynevor Castle, Carmenthenshire, Wales d.0999
  
  Angharad verch Maredudd
  - b.~  0982 in Rhuddlan, Wales
  
  Tewdwr (Mawr, The Great) ap Cadell
  - b. in Deheubarth, Wales
  
  King Rhys ap Tewdwr
  - b.~  1035 in Deheubarth, Wales d.1093 in Wales
  
  Nest verch Deheubarth Rhys
  - b.~  1073 in Dynevor, Wales d.~  1163
  
  Gladys verch Rhywallon
  - b.~  1051 in Powys, Wales
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

Personal Timeline

Click here for details of Nest's family with Geraldus Fitzwalter de Wyndsore

Click here for details of Nest's family with King Henry (Beauclerc) England I

¹ http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tamer&id=I4513&style=TABLE
² http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I85298&style=TABLE