Nest verch Deheubarth Rhys Heiress of Carew, Tywysoges Deheubarth 
Nest was born in 1073 in Dynevor, Wales.1 Nest's father was King Rhys ap Tewdwr and her mother was Gladys verch Rhywallon. Her paternal grandparents were Prince of Wales Tewdwr (Mawr, The Great) ap Cadell and Gwenllian ferch Gwyn; her maternal grandparents were Prince of Powys Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn and <Unknown>. She had four brothers and five sisters, named Tewdwr, Hywel, Gruffydd, Llywelyn, Gwenllian, Margred, Gwladus, Efa and Arden. She had six half-brothers and three half-sisters, named Geraldus, William, Walter, Robert, Maurice, Reinal, Margred, Hawise and Delicia. She died at the age of 90 in 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]
---------------------
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
-
*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0913 in Dynevor, Llandyfeisant, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.0988
- b.0933 in Deheubarth, Wales d.0984 in Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.0918 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.0963 in Dynevor Castle, Llandyfeisant, Caernarvonshire, Wales
- b.0934 in Devon
<Unknown>
- b.0997 in Dynevor Castle, Llandyfeisant, Caernarvonshire, Wales
- b.0933 in Powys, Wales
- b.0954 in Powys, Wales d.1005
- b.0930 in Gwent, Wales
- b.0978 in Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales
- b.0928 in Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales
- b.0954 in Powys, Cymru
<Unknown>
- b.1035 in Deheubarth, Wales d.1093 in Wales
- b.0900 in Dyfed, Wales
- b.0930 in Dyfed, Wales
<Unknown>
- b.0969 in Dyvet, Caernarvonshire, Wales
<Unknown>
- b.1000 in Dyvet, Caernarvonshire, Wales
<Unknown>
- b.1073 in Dynevor, Wales d.1163
- b.0933 in Powys, Wales
- b.0954 in Powys, Wales d.1005
- b.0930 in Gwent, Wales
- b.0978 in Powys, Cymru d.1075 in Castell Powys, Powys, Cymru
- b.0928 in Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales
- b.0954 in Powys, Cymru
<Unknown>
- b.1000 in Powys, Wales d.1070 in Mechain, Montgomeryshire, Wales
- b.0913 in Dynevor, Llandyfeisant, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.0988
- b.0938 in Dynevor Castle, Carmenthenshire, Wales d.0999
- b.0918 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.0982 in Rhuddlan, Wales
<Unknown>
- b.1051 in Powys, Wales
<Unknown>
-
Details of Nest's family with Constable of Pembroke Geraldus Fitzwalter de Wyndsore
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
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I85298&style=TABLE
Page last modified