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Persoonlijke gegevens Sir David 'Gam' ap Llewellyn Sais Knight 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1351 in Peutun Llan Ddew, Breconshire, Wales.Bronnen 9, 12, 13

  Breconshire
  Breconshire

• Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 21 mei 1966.
• Beroep: Sir Knight; knighted by Henry V at Agincourt.Bron 14
• (Alt. Birth) in het jaar 1351: Peutun, Llanddew, Powys, Wales.Bron 3
• Hij is overleden op 25 oktober 1415 in Battle of Azincourt, 62310, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, hij was toen 64 jaar oud.Bronnen 3, 5, 9, 12
• Een kind van Llewellyn ap Hwyel en Mawd verch Ieuan
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Sir David 'Gam' ap Llewellyn Sais Knight

Hij is getrouwd met Gwenllian verch Gwilym.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Gwladys verch Dafydd Sais  1378-1454 

Notities over Sir David 'Gam' ap Llewellyn Sais Knight

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From: "cg" ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX))
Subject: David Gam from Einion Sais
Date: 1998/09/20
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval

David Llewelyn, or Dafydd Ap Llewelyn, generally called David Gam or squinting David, was the fourth in descent from Einion Sais and inherited the estate and demesne of Castell Einion Sais.  His father Llewelyn had also purchased the mansions and lands of Peyton, (Wallace Peityn) now called Peityn gwin, Peityn du, and Peityn glas, in the parishes of Garthbrengy and Llanddew, from William Peyton, the last Brecknockshire resident of that Norman family, for three hundred marks.  In consequence  of an affray in the High Street of Brecknock, in which David unfortunately killed his kinsman Ritsiart fawr o'r Slwch, he was compelled to fly into  England, and to avoid a threatened prosecution for the murder, attached himself to the Lancastrian party, to whose interest he ever afterwards most faithfully adhered.

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Gam, David d. 1415, Welsh warrior, is more properly styled Davydd ab Llewelyn.  "Gam" is a nickname meaning "squinting", which, like other Welsh nicknames, became equivalent to a surname.  David's father was Llewelyn, the son of Hywel, the son of Eineon Sais.  Llewelyn possessed fair estates in the parishes of Garthbrengy and Llanddew, which lay within the honour or lordship of Brecon, a dependency of the earldom of Hereford, and after 1399 lapsed to the crown by the accession of Henry IV, who had long enjoyed that earldom.  Peytyn was the name of Llewelyn's chief residence.  David is described in a verse attributed to Owain Glyndwr as a short red-haired man with a squint. He was faithful to his lord, Henry IV, even during the revolt of Owain [see Glendower, Owen].  He was rewarded for his services by a large share in the South Welsh lands confiscated from rebels in 1401 (Wylie, Hist. of Henry IV, p. 245).  There is a story that David plotted against the life of Owain when attending the Welsh parliament at Machynlleth.  But it rests on no early authority, misdates the year of the Machynlleth parliament, and wrongly makes David a brother-in-law of Owain.  There seems nothing to show that David ever wavered in his allegiance.

David was taken prisoner by Owain, probably at a time when Owain's successes were very few.  On 14 June 1412 David's father, Llewelyn ab Hywel, and the seneschal and receiver of Brecon were empowered to treat with Owain, and by ransom or by capturing rebel prisoners to extricate David from his rigorous imprisonment (Federa, viii. 753).

It is said that David soon after got into trouble by killing a kinsman in an affray in Brecon town.  In 1415 David, accompanied by three foot archers only, followed Henry V on his invasion of France (Nicolas, Battle of Agincourt, p. 379).  It is reported that when, on the eve of the battle of Agincourt, he was questioned by the king as to the number of the enemy, he replied that "there were enough to be slain, enough to be taken prisoners, and enough to run away".  The story, however, first appears in Sir Walter Raleigh's "History of the World" (p. 451).  David was slain at the battle of Agincourt, which was fought on 25 Oct. 1415.  The contemporary chroniclers who notice his death simply describe him as an esquire (Walsingham, ii. 313; cf. "Chronicles of London," quoted in Nicolas, pp. 279-80).  There is a tradition that he was knighted for his valour when dying on the field of battle, and the fact that one chronicler says that two recently dubbed knights were slain (Gesta Henrici Quinti, p. 58, Engl. Hist. Soc.) is thought to bear out the story.  But one writer at least mentions both the two knights and David Gam (Nicolas, p. 280).  Lewis Glyn Cothi, a Welsh poet of the next generation, who celebrated the praises of David's children and grandchildren, regularly speaks of him, however, as "Syr Davydd Gam" (Gwaith, pp. 1, 8).  It has been suggested that David is the original of Shakespeare's Fluellen.  This is not at all an improbable conjecture, as Fluellen is plainly a corruption of Llewelyn, and David was generally called David Llewelyn, or ab Llewelyn.  The reference to him in Raleigh shows also that his name was familiar to the age of Elizabeth.

David is said to have married Gwenllian, daughter of Gwilym, son of Hywel Grach.  He left a family.  His son Morgan became the ancestor of the Games of Breconshire.  His daughter Gwladus was by her second husband, Sir William ab Thomas of Raglan, the mother of William, the first Herbert Earl of Pembroke.
[Dictionary of National Biography VII:832-3]

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Dafydd Gam (d 1415), Welsh warrior, was the son of Llywelyn Ap Hywel Fychan, a Brecknock landowner of the stock of Einion Sais, whose castle stood at Pen-pont on the river Usk.  His byname signified that he squinted or had lost an eye.  Tradition averred that he fled from his homeland after killing his relative, Richard of Slwch, in the High Street of Brecon.  He first appears, as a king's esquire, in April 1400; in this capacity he was to receive forty marks a year.  Since Henry had been for some years, through his marriage to Mary Bohun, in control of the lordship of Brecknock, the association was probably not new; Dafydd, at any rate, remained a loyal Lancastrian until his death.  In Nov 1401 he was rewarded out of rebel lands, and, according to the Scottish historian, Walter Bower, he had a part in the royal victory over Owain Glyn Dwr at Pwll Melyn, near Usk, on 5 May 1405. This date throws doubt upon the familiar story of his treacherous attack upon Owen at the parliament of Machynlleth in 1404; it has other doubtful features, and, in any case, is not heard of until the time of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (d 1667).  That Dafydd fell into the hands of Glyn Dwr is certain, but that was at a much later date; it was in June 1412, when the revolg was nearing its collapse, that the seneschal and the receiver of Brecon, with the assent of Llywelyn Ap Hywel, the prisoner's father, were empowered to treat with Owen as to the ransom of 'David Gamm,' tenant in the lordship of Brecon.  The release was effected, and the final scene came in 1415, when David went with his royal master to France, to meet his death on the field of Agincourt.  Legends gathered round the end of this puissant fighter; in particular, it was believed that he was knighted on that fatal day.  An influential posterity kept up his reputation; for two centuries and a half the Games clan were prominent in Brecknock affairs, at Aberbran, Newton (near Brecon), Tre-gaer, Buckland, and Penderyn, until the male line died out and the surname disappeared. The last sheriff to bear it was Hoo Games of Newton (1657).  Through the marriage of his daughter Gwladus to Sir William Ap Thomas of Raglan, Dafydd Gam was forefather of all the Herberts.
[Dictionary of Welsh Biography p101]

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