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Dinas Brân (top left), the capital of Powys Fadog viewed from the north west. Powys Fadog split in two in 1160 following the death of Prince Madog ap Maredudd. [1] [2] He was a member of the Royal House of Mathrafal, founded by grandfather, King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, who led a defence with the Anglo-Saxons against William the Conqueror.
Tradiotional arms of Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, later the Banner of the princely realm of Powys Fadog. Madog ap Gruffudd, or Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor, was a Prince of Powys Fadog [1] from 1191 to 1236 in north-east Wales, and Lord of Powys. [2] He was the founder of Valle Crucis Abbey in the Lordship of Yale.
Gruffydd Maelor II (died 1269) was a Prince of Powys Fadog. He reigned for thirty-three years and married into the House of Stanley . Following the Anglo-Welsh Treaty of Montgomery , he submitted to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , Prince of Wales.
Gruffydd Maelor (died 1191) was a Prince of Powys Fadog in Wales. He married a daughter of King Owain Gwynedd , first Prince of Wales , and was a brother of Prince Owain Brogyntyn , ancestor of the Barons of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion .
The lands of the Maelor were only reincorporated in Powys during the reign of Stephen of England (1135–54) by Madog ap Maredudd. He died in 1160 and the kingdom was subdivided amongst his heirs. By the early 13th century, when it was part of the lands of Madog ap Gruffydd, Prince of Powys Fadog, the Maelor was
Painting of Powys Castle by artist David Cox. Powys Wenwynwyn or Powys Cyfeiliog was a Welsh kingdom which existed during the high Middle Ages. The realm was the southern portion of the former princely state of Powys which split following the death of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys in 1160: the northern portion (Maelor) went to Gruffydd Maelor and eventually became known as Powys Fadog; while the ...
Madog II was a Prince of Powys Fadog from 1269 to 1277. He supported the Prince of Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , who had married the daughter of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester . Lineage and inheritance
Maelor and Iâl (Yale) were received by Gruffydd (subsequently Gruffydd Maelor), Prince of Powys Fadog, and ancestor of Owain Glyndwr, Prince of Wales, and the Vaughans of Corsygedeol and the Yale family. Swydd y Waun (the commotes of Nanheudwy, and Cynllaith) was received by Lord Owain Fychan.