Maredudd ab Ieuan ab Robert (born around 1465, died 1525), also spelt Maredudd ap Ieuan and Maredudd ab Ifan, was a Welsh
landed gentleman
The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical Irish and British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate. It is th ...
and succeeded his father Ieuan ap Robert ap Maredudd (1437–1468). He had two full brothers, Robert and John, and three half-siblings born of his father Ieuan ap Robert's second marriage to Gwenhwyfar ferch Madog Vaughan of Llwyn Dyrus, they being Gruffudd Vaughan, Ieuan and an unnamed sister. He purchased and rebuilt
Gwydyr Castle after it was destroyed in the 1460s and made it the family home. He was an ancestor of Sir
John Wynn, 1st Baronet.
To avoid implication in the feuds of his kinsmen in
Eifionydd
Eifionydd () is an area in north-west Wales covering the south-eastern part of the Llŷn Peninsula from Porthmadog to just east of Pwllheli. The Afon Erch forms its western border. It now lies in Gwynedd.
The commote of Eifionydd formed the no ...
, Maredudd purchased the lease of
Dolwyddelan Castle
Dolwyddelan Castle ( ; ; ) is a thirteenth-century castle located west of Dolwyddelan in Conwy County Borough, Wales. Tomen Castell, a late twelfth-century tower, is located south-east of the castle.
Dolwyddelan Castle was probably begun by L ...
about 1489. He later built Penamnen. He finally purchased
Gwydyr from Dafydd ap Hywel Coetmor about 1500.
[Glyn Roberts]
WYNN family, of Gwydir, Caerns
''Dictionary of Welsh Biography'', National Library of Wales/University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
He married three times and had multiple natural children by various mistresses. He married firstly Alice, the natural daughter of Gwilym ap Gruffudd ap Robin of
Cochwillan, with whom he had four sons –
John Wyn ap Maredudd, who succeeded him, Rhys Wyn, William Wyn and Rhydderch – and six daughters.
He married secondly Gwenhwyfar, daughter of Gruffudd ap Hywel ''y Farf'', by whom he had a daughter, Elsbeth. He married thirdly Margaret, daughter of Morus ap John, by whom he had two sons – Humphry Wyn and Cadwaladr – and seven daughters.
In total he is said to have had 26 children.
References
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15th-century births
1525 deaths
Welsh royalty
House of Cunedda
People from Dolwyddelan