Gwladus Ddu, ("Gwladus the Dark Eyes"), full name Gwladus ferch Llywelyn (died 1251) was a
Welsh
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noblewoman who was a daughter of
Llywelyn the Great of
Gwynedd and
Joan Plantagenet, a daughter of
John, King of England. She married two
Marcher lords.
Sources differ as to whether Gwladus was Llywelyn's legitimate daughter by his wife
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or an illegitimate daughter by
Tangwystl Goch, but she is widely regarded to be the daughter of Joan. Gwladus is recorded in
Brut y Tywysogion
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as having died at
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in 1251.
Marriage
* She married firstly,
Reginald de Braose
Reginald de Braose (19 September 1182 – June 1228) was one of the sons of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber and Matilda, also known as Maud de St. Valery and Lady de la Haie. Her other children included William and Giles.
The de Braoses ...
, Lord of
Brecon
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and
Abergavenny in about 1215. After Reginald's death in 1228 she was probably the sister recorded as accompanying
Dafydd ap Llywelyn
Dafydd ap Llywelyn (''c.'' March 1212 – 25 February 1246) was Prince of Gwynedd from 1240 to 1246. He was the first ruler in Wales to claim the title Prince of Wales.
Birth and descent
Though birth years of 1208, 1206, and 1215 have ...
to
London
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in 1229.
* She married secondly,
Ralph de Mortimer
Ranulph or Ralph de Mortimer (before 1198 to 6 August 1246) was the second son of Roger de Mortimer and Isabel de Ferrers of Wigmore Castle in Herefordshire. He succeeded his elder brother before 23 November 1227 and built Cefnllys and Knuc ...
of
Wigmore about 1230. Ralph died in 1246, and their son,
Roger de Mortimer, inherited the lordship.
Issue
*
Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer
Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore (1231 – 27 October 1282), of Wigmore Castle in Herefordshire, was a marcher lord who was a loyal ally of King Henry III of England and at times an enemy, at times an ally, of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, ...
, in 1247, married
Maud de Braose
Maud de Braose, Lady of Bramber (c. 1155 – 1210) was an English noble, the spouse of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, a powerful Marcher baron and court favourite of King John of England. She would later incur the wrath and enmity of t ...
, by whom he had seven children.
* Hugh de Mortimer (d. 1273), lord of Chelmarsh.
* Peter or John Mortimer, a Franciscan friar in Shrewsbury.
References
Notes
* ''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700'' by Frederick Lewis Weis; Lines 132-C-29, 176B-28
*
John Edward Lloyd (1911) '' A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest'' (Longmans, Green & Co.)
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1251 deaths
Welsh princesses
Year of birth unknown
13th-century Welsh nobility
13th-century Welsh women