Re: Question Regarding Wife of Madog ap Gruffudd Maelawr (d. 1236) of Powys Fado

_RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Re: Question Regarding Wife of Madog ap Gruffudd
Maelawr (d. 1236) of Powys Fadog_

Carl~

Both J.Y.W. LLoyd in his work The History of the Princes...of Powys Fadog
(1881) [vol. I, p. 162] and Frederic Seebohm in his work The Tribal System in
Wales (1904) [pp. 151-152, A105] contradict Bartrum's later work by stating
Madog's wife was Isotta ferch Ithel. Seebohm in his Appendix D [pp. A101-A105]
provides documentation to support this lady's given name as Ysota, a variant
of Isolde. On those pages he reproduced in full the 1270 IPM concerning the
lands of Griffini fil Madocii de Brumfeld [Chancery Inquisition post Mortem,
5 Edw. I., No. 78, PRO], and this document clearly identifies Gruffudd ap
Madog's mother as Lady Isotta, "dna Ysota." Neither of these sources (Lloyd &
Seebohm) provide documentation for identifying her as a daughter of Ithel ap
Rhys ab Ifor of Cantref Selyf (styled 'Frenin Gwent'), but they both accepted
her as such.

Regarding Emma de Aldithelegh, wife successively of Henry Tuchet and
Gruffudd ap Madog, Cokayne in Complete Peerage (1959) [XII:56] stated that her first
husband died shortly before 8 Jan. 1241/2, and that she was alive as late as
Feb. 1264/5. From the Patent Rolls we can add that she had married her
second husband by 1 Jul. 1244 [Henry III, 3:430] and that she was alive as late
as Nov. 1278 [Edw. I, 1:282-283]. Also the 1270 IPM cited by Seebohm clearly
identifies her as a legitimate daughter of Henry de Aldethelig'. Transcripts
of the Welsh Rolls reproduced on pp. 182-188 of vol. I of his opus, confirm
her presence in Maelor Saesneg in 1278. At that time she seems to have
retired to England, Edward I having granted her rents from the farm of the town of
Derby, Claverle manor, Shropshire, and Tottenhale manor, Staffordshire.

A little biographical note overlooked by Lloyd is that the brother of
Gruffudd ap Madog (d. 1269) named Hywel ap Madog was a priest at Myddle,
Shropshire, who was favored by Henry III. See the 1232 charter transcribed in Patent
Rolls, Henry III, 2:457-458 where he is desribed as "Hoheli filio Maddoc filii
Griffini de Bromfeld, persone de Mudle..."