• General Notes

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  TITL University of Hull Royal Database (England)       AUTH Brian Tompsett, Dept of Compute r Science
  PUBL copyright 1994, 1995, 1996
  usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc
  WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX  bct@@tardis.ed.ac.uk          MEDI Electronic
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  TITL Falls the Shadow      AUTH Sharon Kay Penman       PUBL Ballantine Books, New York, 1988
  Library of J.H. Garner     MEDI Book
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  TITL Descent of Hughes      AUTH Graham Milne
  WWW http://www.cogent-comms.co.uk/tree.htm           MEDI Electronic
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  _FA1 PLAC Krigeth in Efinoydd, Chief Counsellor, Chief Justice, General.
  _FA2  DATE 1215-1246    PLAC Seneschal for Llywelyn Fawr & for his son Dafydd ap Llywelyn.
             SOUR Sharon Kay Penman "There be Dragons"
  _FA3  PLAC One of the few Welshmen to undergoe a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, ret. 1235.
             SOUR Sharon Kay Penman "Falls the Shadow"
  _MDCL Unusually tall, suffered with arthritis. Ednyfed Fychan was a member of the royal house hold of King Llywellyn ap Gruffydd of Gwynedd.  From this king (presumably) he received exten sive grants of land, which when added to that of his clan (the descendants of the 9th centur y Marchudd) served as the basis for establishing some of the most prominant lineages of post- conquest Wales.   While the Tudors, descendants of his son Gorownry and later kings of Englan d are the most prominant descendants, their lineage was overshadowed during the 13th and 14t h centuries by the descendants of another son, Gruffydd (from whome derives the Griffiths o f Burton Agnes, who started this thread), and after a brief period of notice, went into eclip se with the fall of Glyn Dwr to the benefit of a third line, the descendants of another broth er, Tudur (this line giving rise to Griffith of Penrhyn).  It was only with the secret marria ge of Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudur (Owen Tudor) that the line of Gorownry shot back to prominanc e.  For more information on these families, see Dictionary of Welsh Biography under Ednyfed F ychan, Rhys ap Griffith (Sir), Gruffydd Llwyd, and Griffith of Penrhyn, and also the 1915 Eng lish Historical Review, and Aspects of Welsh History: Selected papers of the late Glyn Robert s (from which the following is derived), and Bartrum.

Details of Ednyfed Fychan ap's family with Tangwystl Goch verch Llywarch