Tegwared y Bais Wen ap Llywelyn (English: Tegwared with the White Mantle/Escutcheon, son of Llewelyn), Lord of Trefdraeth was a

natural son Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally marriage, married to each other, and of a child Fertilisation, conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce. Conversely, ''illegitim ...

Llywelyn the Great Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (, – 11 April 1240), also known as Llywelyn the Great (, ; ), was a medieval Welsh ruler. He succeeded his uncle, Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, as King of Gwynedd in 1195. By a combination of war and diplomacy, he dominate ...

, Prince of Aberffraw, by a woman named in some sources as Crysten. He was born circa 1210, although if he was a battle chief in Llywelyn Fawr’s golden era, this would place his birth perhaps a decade or more earlier. 'The white mantle' refers to his

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(as shown to the right). Tegwared served as a general in his father's army and held the

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of Trefdraeth, Anglesey, where his posterity lived for the next 600 years. It is recorded that he was raised by Ednyfed Vychan, his father's

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. This system of kin group raising of children (known as ''maeth'') was common practice amongst the Welsh ''uchelwyr'' (high born) of the Middle Ages. It is recorded amongst farm families until the 1700s in parts of

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. Tegwared later married his daughter, Gwenlian ferch Ednyfed Vychan. They had the following children: * Howel ap Tegwared * Angharad ap Tegwared * Arddun ap Tegwared * Tegwared Vychan ap Tegwared (born circa 1250)

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