General Notes

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30. IEUAN (son of No. 29). In 1277, when he was about twenty-five, theWelsh were at war with the English and it was not until 1283 that Waleswas finally subdued. It is probable that Ieuan took an active part inthese wars. For thirty generations his ancestors had only a single Welshname. The Welsh people had no surnames until much later; and yet he namedhis son Humphrey Wever. There is no such word or name as Wever in theWelsh language, and in English it is used only as the family name of theWevers of Cheshire, many of whom settled in Shropshire where Ieuan lived.Humphrey's son Walter, and perhaps Humphrey himself, used thecoat-of-arms and also the motto of the Wevers of Cheshire, as stated inChapter Three. These considerations make it quite certain that Ieuanmarried a daughter of one of the Cheshire Wevers who lived in Shropshireand that their son was named for her family.