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  TITL Ahnentafel for Margery Arundell    AUTH Marlyn Lewis     PUBL 08 Oct 1997     MEDI Manus cript
  TEXT Griffith ap Gwenwynwyn de la Pole Prince of Upper Powys, no parents
  TITL The Reckoning    AUTH Sharon Kay Penman
  PUBL Ballantine Books, New York, 1991       MEDI Book          PAGE p 101
  TEXT Jan 1274 given to be 58 yrs old
  TITL Garner, Lorraine Ann "Lori"             PUBL P.O. Box 577, Bayview, ID  83803
  Her sources included, but may not be limited to: Burke's Landed Gentry, Burke's Dormant & Ext inct Peerage, Burke's Peerage of American Presidents, Debrett's Peerage, Oxford histories & " numerous other reference works"
  very good to excellent, although she has a tendency to follow Burke's  Hardcopy notes of Lor i Garner Elmore.
  MEDI Letter
  _FA1  PLAC Regained his father's lost legacy of Powys upon Llywelyn Fawr's death in 1240.
  _FA2 DATE Apr 1258      PLAC Llywelyn ap Gruffydd drives him from Powys back to England.
  _FA3  PLAC Becomes Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's vassal; forced to ackowledge him Prince of Wales.
  _FA4  DATE Jan 1273/74     PLAC Conspired w/ Dafydd ap Gruffydd to murder Llywelyn ap Gruffyd d.
  _FA5 DATE 17 Apr 1274    PLAC Admits conspiracy before Llywelyn & yields two cantrefs.
  _FA6 DATE Apr 1276    PLAC Restored to power in Powys via Roger de Mortimer's capture of Dunf orwyn.
  _FA7 PLAC Fled Wales for England when Llywelyn fought King Edward I.
  _FA8  DATE Nov 1277   PLAC Restored to power when Llywelyn surrendered.
  _FA9  DATE 10 Sep 1281   PLAC Llywelyn made a treaty with Roger de Mortimer against Gruffydd.
  TITL The Reckoning    AUTH Sharon Kay Penman     PUBL Ballantine Books, New York, 1991     ME DI Book
  PAGE p 412REF: Sharon Kay Penman "The Reckoning": Conspired (Jan 1274) with his son Owain d e la Pole & Dafydd ap Gruffydd Lord Denbigh to murder Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, Dafydd's own brot her.  He & his son were brought to trial before Llywelyn & admitted conspiracy w/out implicat ing Dafydd, but in October 1274 Dafydd's involvement was sufficiently rumored to bring him to o before the judgement seat of his brother.  Llywelyn gave him until Martinmas to produce wit nesses to "prove" he was not in Powys conspiring with the Lord of Powys & his son on the date s in question.  But on 31 Oct 1274, Owain de la Pole, who was a hostage in Llywelyn's hands f or his father's good faith, confessed all to Llywelyn's Seneschal.  Llywelyn issued a writ fo r Dafydd's arrest. Dafydd fled to England with Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn where Edward, despite b eing allied with Llywelyn, provided for them generously at Shrewsbury & they began to forge r aiding parties into Wales, despite the fact that Llywelyn had conquered all of Powys & had bu rned Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn's seat to the ground. In April 1277, Roger de Mortimer took Llywe lyn's castle at Donforwyn & restored Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn to power in Powys.

Details of Gruffydd ap's family with Hawise le Strange