Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales

1173 - 1240  (67 years)

• Name	Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth
  Suffix	Prince of Wales
  Birth	1173	Dolyddelan, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Apr 1240	Caernarvonshire, Wales
  Person ID	I38962	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Iorwerth Drwyndwn ap Owain,   b. Abt 1130, Gwynned, Wales d. 1184 (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret verch Madog,   b. Abt 1129, Overton-Madog, Flintshire, Wales
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F14299	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Tangwystl verch Lywarch,   b. Abt 1164, Wales
  Children	1. Princess of Wales Gwladys "The Dark" verch Llewelyn,   b. 1205, Caerarvonshire, Wales d. 1251, Winsor, Berkshire, England (Age 46 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F14298	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Joan Plantagenet,   b. 1188, London, Middlesex, England d. 2 Feb 1237, Caernarvonshire, Wales (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1205	Chester, Cheshire, England
  Children	1. Margaret verch Llewelyn,   b. 1210, Caernarvonshire, Wales d. 1263, Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England (Age 53 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F29127	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 16 Apr 1205 - Chester, Cheshire, England Death - 11 Apr 1240 - Caernarvonshire, Wales  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Llewelyn I ap Iorwerth (d. 1240), prince of north Wales, was born after the expulsion of his father, Iorwerth, from the principality. In 1194, Llewelyn recovered the paternal inheritance and by 1201 was the greatest prince in Wales. At first he was a friend of King John, whose illegitimate daughter, Joanna, he married in 1201; but the alliance soon fell through, and in 1211 John reduced Llewelyn to submission. In the next year Llewelyn recovered all his losses in north Wales. In 1215 he took Shrewsbury. His rising had been encouraged by the pope, by France and by the English barons. His rights were secured by special clauses in the Magna Carta. But he never desisted from his wars with the Marchers of south Wales, and in the early years of Henry III he was several times attacked by English armies. In 1234, however, a truce was concluded at Middle. In 1239 Llewelyn retired into a Cistercian monastery. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 14, p. 252, LLEWELYN]