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Richard Williams was born about 1510 [2] in the parish of Llanishen, Glamorganshire. [3] [4] He was the eldest son of Morgan (ap William) Williams, an aspiring Welsh lawyer [5] [6] (and a paternal descendant of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, prince of Powys [7]), who was possibly the same Morgan Williams later recorded as a brewer at Putney, Greenwich and elsewhere. [1]
Morgan ap Hywel: 1200 1300 Crusader large estate owner: male: 184 Morgan ap Caradog ap Iestyn: 1200 1208 community leader: male: 185 Owain ap Gruffydd: 1200 1236 aristocrat: male: 186 Thomas Bek: 1201 1293 priest: male: 187 Y Prydydd Bychan: 1205 Wales: poet: male: 188 Dafydd ap Llywelyn: 1215 1208 1246 Wales: monarch aristocrat: male: 189 ...
His grandfather, Morgan ap William, was the son of a man named William, and also used the name Williams, but his father abandoned the Welsh patronymic system completely and adopted the name of Cromwell, in honour of an uncle Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex. The family then consistently used and wrote its name as "Williams, alias Cromwell ...
This is the family tree of the kings of the respective Welsh medieval kingdoms of Gwynedd, Deheubarth and Powys, and some of their more prominent relatives and heirs as the direct male line descendants of Cunedda Wledig of Gwynedd (401 – 1283), and Gwrtheyrn of Powys (c. 5th century – 1160), then also the separate Welsh kingdoms and petty kingdoms, and then eventually Powys Fadog until the ...
Iestyn's sons became Lords of Afan, while Owain ap Caradog ap Gruffudd contented himself with Gwynllwg and founded the line of the Lords of Caerleon. [4] The name Morgannwg is still used in Wales for the former Marcher Lordship and county of Glamorgan (itself a corruption of the term Gwlad Morgan) and its successor counties
Aberpergwm House before the 1876 remodelling. By 1850, the house was ‘playfully crenellated’ with a central pediment” [2] In 1876, the house was remodelled by Morgan Stuart Williams, [2] who later went on to restore St Donat's Castle [1] This ‘overwhelmed’ the work of 1850, and included the addition of a new front range dominated by a ‘remarkable top heavy Elizabethan gallery ...
Wendy Williams was deemed “permanently incapacitated ” due to frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia. Her legal guardian , Sabrina Morrissey , disclosed the 60-year-old’s ...
Monumental effigy of Sir William ap Thomas. Sir William ap Thomas (died 1445) was a Welsh nobleman, politician, knight, and courtier. He was a member of the Welsh gentry family that came to be known as the Herbert family through his son William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (8th creation) and is the agnatic ancestor, via an illegitimate descendant of the 1st Earl of the 8th creation, of the ...