Volume 2

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

  • Burke, John, 1787-1848.
Date:
1833-1838
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Credit: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prince between Wye and Severn, and had a son and successor, Gryffith ap Nicholas, of Newton, who had by his wife, the daughter of Meredith Donne,* of Iscoed, two sons, Thomas, father of the famed Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.B. lineal ancestor of the present Lord Dyne- vor, and Owen ap Gryffith (whom some state to have been the eldest son of Gryffith, Golden Grove MSS.) He in. Alice, daughter of Henry Malyphant, esq. of Upton, in Pem- brokeshire, and had, with other issue, a son and successor, Morris ap Owen, esq. of Llechdwnny, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lewis, esq. of St. Pierre, and had issue, John Bowen, of Bryn y Beirdd, in. Margaret, daughter of Howell David ap Einon ap David Vras. Thomas, from whom descended the Upton family. Rees, of whom presently. Jane, m. to Hugh Vaughan, esq. of Mdwelly, the father of John Vaug- han, esq. of Golden Grove, whose grandson, John Vaughan was created Earl of Carbery by James I. Elizabeth, m. to David ap Rliydderch Gwynne, esq. of Glanbran. The third son, Rees Bowen, of Llechdwnny, in Kid- welly Land, m. Jenet, daughter of Henry ap Owen ap Cadwgan of that place, and had (with two daughters, the elder, Jenet, m. to Rees ap Owen, and the younger to John Llwyd Aubrey), a son, Morris Bowen, esq. of Llechdwnny, who m. Catherine, daughter of Thomas ap Rhydderch Gwynne, esq. of Glanbran, and had issue, Rhys, his heir. Charles. * This Meredith Donne, or Dwn, was pater- nally descended from Meiric, king of Dy ved, who was one of the four kings that bore the sword be- fore King Arthur at his coronation at Caerlleon upon Usk. His descendant, Gryffith, from some jealousy, so frequent among the Welsh chieftains, and which facilitated the subjugation of the coun- try, took part with Morris de Londres, in his attack on Kidwelly, and was commander of the army in the battle fought near that town against Gwenllian, wife of Griffith ab Rhys, Prince of South Wales, wherein herself and two sons were slain. The place where the battle was fought is called Maes Gwenllian, or Gwenllian’s Plain, to this day. Philip, the grandson of Griffith, how- ever, seems to have taken a different course ; for he fought a battle against the Anglo-Normans at a place called Cragg-Cym, near Kidwelly, in which he defeated them, and burnt that town. From these Donnes was descended Donne of TyGwynne, whose daughter Robert, brother to Hector Rees, married. Lucy, in. to David Read, esq. Elizabeth, m. to Henry Morgan, esq. The elder son, Rhys Bowen, esq. of Llechdwnny, in. Catherine, daughter of John Morgan, of Kidwelly, and bad issue, Morris, of Llechdwnny, high sheriff of Carmarfhenshire in 1615. He in. Maud, daughter of Sir John Wogan, of Boulston, and bad several child- ren, one of whom, Mary, in. John Brigstock, esq. to whom Morris, her father, passed the estate for a sum of money. Attached to the ancient property is a chapel on the south side of Kidwelly church, forming a wing to it. On the opposite side is a simi- lar chapel, which belonged to the Mansels of Iscoed. John, of whom presently. Elizabeth, in. to David Lloyd, esq. of Llanstephan. Anne. Dorothy, m. to Thomas Philipps, esq. The younger son, John Bowen, esq. of Carmarthen, living in the early part of the 17th century, m. Eva, daughter of David Havard, of the same place, and was father of William Bowen, esq. whose son, Rhys William ap Owen, esq. of Kil- verry, was father of John Rees ap William, esq. who was s. by his son, Hector Rees, esq. b. in 1683, of Killv- maenllwyd, from whom the descent down to the present proprietor is correctly given at page 266. ant tig of Pntgfics, Now represented by that of Rees. Gwy'NFARDD Dyved, who lived about the year 1038, temp. Edward the Confessor, was direct ancestor of Daniel Hughes, but the intervening line is too extended to be inserted here. We must not, however, omit, that it is mentioned in the Golden Grove MSS. that one of Hughes’s ances- tors, “ Howell Gawr was so surnamed for his valour, having overthrown the French king’s champion (probably at Chalons, where Edward I. held the field at a tournament against all comers), and obtained for his arms gu. a lion rampt. or, in a true love knot arg. inter four delisses, their stalks bending towards the centre of the escoclieon of the second.” Daniel married, and had a son, Edward Hughes, esq. of Penymaes,* in Carmarthenshire, who in. Mary, daughter of * On the Demesne of Penymaes are the re- mains of a chapel, attached to the family house in Catholic times, and to which an avenue of stately fir trees led from the mansion.