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Personal data Ifor ap (Ifor "Hael" ap) "Hael" Llywelyn 

• Alternative name: Ifor ap Llewelyn
• Nickname is Hael.
• He was born about 1316 in Bassaleg, Newport, Wales.Source 3

  Montgomeryshire

• (Alt. Birth) about 1332.Source 7
• He died in the year 1361.Source 3
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Ifor ap (Ifor "Hael" ap) "Hael" Llywelyn

He is married to Nest ferch Rhun.

They got married

Notes about Ifor ap (Ifor "Hael" ap) "Hael" Llywelyn

[Jane Williams Flank.ged]

Ifor Hael (Ifor the Generous) - this is the name given by Dafydd ap Gwilym to his chief pator, Ifor ap Llywelyn, Bassaleg, Mon.  Although we are accustomed to calling it in Welsh 'Maesaleg' there are definite proofs that the name was 'Bassalec' or Basselec' in the 12th cent. (see the 'Book of Llandaff') and earlier in the lineage of Ifor is given in Pen. MS 133 (R., i, 833) (180), 'tredegyr ymassalec' (Tredegar in Bassaleg), (181) 'Gwern y klepa ymassalec' (Gwern y klepa in Bassaleg) and the ancestry of Philip who was there in 1550 is traced back to 'Tomas ap Ivor hael ap Llywelyn ap Ivor.'  The three brothers, Morgan, Philip, and Ifor Hael are named in Pen. MS 176, 206, (R., i, 977); see also Mostyn MS 114 (39-40) and Pen. MS 140 (74-6). For the complete pedigree see Dwnn, i, 218.  Their mother was Angharad, daughter of Morgan ap Meredudd, lord of Tredegar (the Tredegar mentioned above).  Her second husband was Dafydd ap Llywelyn, of Rhydondyn; see Pen. MS 176 (399) where Morgan ap Dafydd is described as 'vnvam ac ifor hael' (uterine brother of Ifor Hael).

Angharad's father d c 1331 (J H Davies, in Trans. Cymm., 1907, 68); in an official inquistion held on that occasion, sworn testimony was given to the effect that Angharad his heiress was 32 years of age; in 1333 it was testified that she was forty!  She must therefore have been  b either in 1293 or 1299, and the birth of Ifor may be assigned to c. 1313 or 1319 at the earliest.  He would, therefore, have fl 1340-1360.  It is known that his eldest brother, Morgan, d before 1384 (Clark, Limbus Patrum, 310), but there is no certainty as to when Ifor or his wife Nest, d; the year 1380 is a suggestion only.  In Puthe's edition (1789) of the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym there were printed four cywyddau to Ifor Hael and three awdlau, one of the awdlau being an elegy upon his death and that of Nest.  The authorship of this particular awdl is, however, not beyond doubt; Lewis Glyn Cothi in the 15th cent. believed that Dafydd ap Gwilym had predeceased his patron - 'Aeth Dafydd gwawdydd drwy gor/I Nefoedd o flaen Ifor.' ; For a further consideration of the matter consult Williams and Roberts, Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwillym, 1914, xvii-ss, and for Bassaleg see B B C S, vii, 277.
[Dictionary of Welsh Biography pg 414]

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