Gwladus Ddu, Princess of North Wales

1206 - 1251  (45 years)

• Name	Gwladus Ddu
  Suffix	Princess of North Wales
  Birth	1206	Caernarvonshire, Wales   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	London, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Death	~1251	Windsor, Berkshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I46813	The Hennessee Family
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Llywelyn The Great,   b. 1173, Aberffraw Castle, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Wales d. 11 Apr 1240, Aberconwy Abbey, Conwy, Conwy County, North Wales (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Joan Plantagenet, Lady of Wales,   b. ~ 1191, (France) d. 2 Feb 1237 (Age ~ 46 years)
  Marriage	23 Mar 1204  [1, 2, 5]
  Residence (Family)	Gwynedd, Wales   [3]
  Family ID	F17163	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sir Reginald de Braose, Knight,   b. 1162, (Bramber, West Sussex, England) d. BY 1228 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1215
  Family ID	F17188	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Sir Ralph de Mortimer, Knight,   b. Bef 1198, Wigmore Castle, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d. Bef 6 Aug 1246 (Age ~ 48 years)
  Marriage	1228  [1]
  Children	1. Sir Roger Mortimer, Knight, 1st Baron Mortimer,   b. 1231, Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales d. 30 Oct 1282, Kingsland, Herefordshire, England (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F17164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1206 - Caernarvonshire, Wales Residence - - London, Middlesex, England Death - ~1251 - Windsor, Berkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Gwladus Ddu, ("Gwladus the Dark"), full name Gwladus ferch Llywelyn (died 1251) was a Welsh noblewoman who was a daughter of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd and married two Marcher lords. Sources differ as to whether Gwladus was Llywelyn's legitimate daughter by his wife Joan or an illegitimate daughter by Tangwystl Goch. Some sources[who?] say that Joan gave her lands to Gwladus, which suggests, but does not prove, the former. Gwladus is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion as having died at Windsor in 1251. Marriage She married firstly, Reginald de Braose, Lord of Brecon and Abergavenny in about 1215, but they are not known to have had a daughter Matilda de Braose. After Reginald's death in 1228 she was probably the sister recorded as accompanying Dafydd ap Llywelyn to London in 1229. She married secondly, Ralph de Mortimer of Wigmore about 1230. Ralph died in 1246, and their son, Roger de Mortimer, inherited the lordship. Issue Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer, in 1247, married Maud de Braose, by whom he had seven children. Hugh de Mortimer John de Mortimer Peter de Mortimer References 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.) [3]

  
  

• Sources

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