been generally styled Cadwgan of Nannau. This place, which is a mansion and park in the township of the same name, is in the parish of Llanvachraith, in the manor or comot of Tal y Bont, and is still in the possession of the prince's descendant, Vaughan, Esq., the representative of the Nannaus, and Vaughans of Nannau.

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Prince Cadwgan married three times; his first consort was the Princess Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffydd ab Cynan, who was King of Gwynedd from 1082 to 1137 (gules, three lions passant in pale argent), by whom he had issue three sons, of whom presently. He married, secondly, a lady of the family of Say, of Stoke Say, by whom he had issue two sons, Henri and Gruffydd. Prince Cadwgan married, thirdly, Gwenllian, daughter (by Morvydd his wife, daughter of Goronwy ab Ednowain Bendew, Chief of one of the Noble Tribes) of Owain, eldest son of Edwin ab Goronwy, Prince of Tegeingl. Prince Owain bore gules, three men's legs conjoined at the thighs in triangle argent, and died of consumption in 1102.

It is probable that it was about the time of his third marriage, with Gwenllian, daughter of Owain ab Edwin, that Prince Cadwgan conferred the cantrevs of Penllyn and Meirion, and the comots of Mawddwy and Cyveiliog, upon his consort's uncle, Uchtryd, the second son of Edwin ab Goronwy ab Einion, Prince of Tegeing, in Gwynedd. Edwin, who was one of the royal family of South Wales, obtained the cantrev of Tegeingl through his mother, Ethelfleda, the daughter and heiress of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and relict of Edmund Ironside, King of England. These cantrevs were conferred upon Uchtryd, upon condition of his rendering faithful service to Prince Cadwgan himself and his family; but instead of doing this he became their enemy. In consequence of which, in 1113, Einion ab Cadwgan ab Bleddyn and his cousin, Gruffydd ab Meredydd ab Bleddyn, fought with Uchtryd and his sons, and dispossessed them of the cantrevs of Meirion and Penllyn, and the comots of Mawddwy and

Cyveiliog, which the conquerors divided between them. In this division Gruffydd got Cyveiliog, Mawddwy, and half of Penllyn, which thus became a portion of that part of Powys which was named Powys Wenwynwyn, after Gruffydd's grandson, Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Upper Powys, who bore or, a lion's gamb erect, gules.

Einion

ab Cadwgan and his brother got the other half of Penllyn and the cantrev of Meirion. In 1284, however, the cantrev of Penllyn was, together with the cantrev of Meirion, the comot of Ardudwy in cantrev Dunodig, and the comot of Edeyrnion, united so as to form the county of Merioneth. The Statutes of Wales, 12 Edw. I, 1284, enact as follows:

"Volumus etiam et statuimus quod Vicicomitis Coronatoris et Ballivi Commotorum sint in Snaudon, et terris nostris partium eandarum.

"Vicecomes de Meyrionnyth sub quo Cantreda de Meirionith, Commotum de Ardudo et Commotum de Penthlin et Commotum de Dereynan, cum metis et Bundis suis."

By a statute of the 27th Henry VIII, 1536, the lordship's marcher were divided into the present counties of Denbigh, Montgomery, Radnor, Brecknock, and Monmouth, and the lordship, town, and parish of Mawddwy was taken from cantrev Cynan and added to Meirionydd, which had been formed into a county in the 12 Edw. III. This cantrev was formerly divided into three comots, viz., Uwch Meloch, Is Meloch, and Mignant; but at present these three comots form but one, which is divided into the bailiwicks of Uwch Trewerin, which comprises Uwch Meloch and Mignant, and Is Trewerin, which comprises Is Meloch.

Uwch Meloch contains the parish of Llangwyr or Llangower, which is divided into the townships of Llangwyr Uwch Avon, and Dwy Graig or Llangwyr Is Avon. Near the village is a stone called Llêch Gwyr, which is marked with a cross, and also a well, Ffynnon Gwyr. Llangwyr and Dwy Graig were once townships in the parish of Llanvihangel in Mignant. Here, on the east bank of the river Dee or Dyvrdwy, are situate two small

tumuli, one of which bears the name of Castell Goronwy Befr o Benllyn, who lived in the time of Maelgwm Gwynedd, who reigned over a great part of Britain from

517 to 560.

IS MELOCH.

Is Meloch contains the parishes of Llanvor and Llanddervel, and is now called the bailiwick of Is Trewerin.

PARISH OF LLANVOR.

This parish is divided into the townships of Tre'r Llan, Rhiwaedog Uwch Avon, Rhiwaedog Is Avon, Pen Maen, Cil Talgarth,' Llawr y Bettws, Ucheldrev, Garth, and Nant Lleidiog, and contains upwards of 20,000 acres.

Llywarch Hên was buried at Llanvor, and there is his grave, as is proved by a stone in the wall of the church.1 There is a stone embedded in the wall of the church, with letters inscribed on it which Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt read as "OVO SENARCHII". Near the village is a circle of large stones, which is called Pabell Llywarch Hên, i.e., the Pavilion of Llywarch Hên; and this prince, who was also a celebrated bard, is said to have resided at Rhos y Gwaliau in this parish.

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Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 104.

VOL. VI.

RHIWAEDOG.

(EYTON PEDIGREE, Harl. MS. 2288.)

Rhirid Vlaidd, Lord of Penllyn, Pennant Melangell in Mechain Isgoed, and Glyn in Powys-land, the Eleven Towns in the lordship of Oswestry, and Evionydd in cantrev Dunodig. He lived at a place called Neuaddau Gleision, in the township of Rhiwaedog. Vert, a chev. inter three wolf's heads erased argent, langued gules.

Gwenllian, d. of Ednyved, Lord of Broughton (ermine, a lion statant gules), second son of Cynwrig ab Rhiwallon, Lord of Maelor Gymraeg.

Arddun, d. of Philip ab Uchdryd of Cyveiliog."

Iorwerth of Penllyn.

Iorwerth. F

Gwrgeneu Vychan..., d. of Ithel Vychan of Llaneurgain

of Rhiwaedog.

Rhiwaedog.

in Tegeingl.

Madog. Generis, d. of Goronwy Vychan ab Goronwy ab Ednyved Vychan.

Ithel of Margaret, eldest daughter of Madog of Cryniarth in Edeyrnion (second son of Elissau, Lord of Llangar, second son of Iorwerth ab Owain Brogyntyn), and sister and co-heiress of Llewelyn ab Madog, who became Bishop of St. Asaph in 1357, and died in 1375 (argent, a lion rampant sable, debruised by a bâton sinister gules). Madog ab Elissau was one of the pledges for Howel ab Gruffydd of Maesmor in Dinmael, Lord of Rug, 24th Edw. III.

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1 Eyton pedigree, Harl. MS. 2288.
2 Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 229.

Lewis Lloyd of Rhiwaedog (refer to vol. iv, p. 297), who is said to have died on the 20th March 1663, aged sixty, must have been living in 1664, as over the portal of the house in the courtyard is this inscription, "L. 1664

1 Tudor was the ancestor of Henry VII. He married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Llewelyn ab Llewelyn ab Owain ab Meredydd, Lord of Isgoed, the heir and representative of the Sovereign princes of South Wales, and died in 1367.

2 When Meredydd ab Cynan was driven from Gwynedd by his uncle, Prince David Owain Cyveiliog, Prince of Upper Powys, gave him Neuadd Wen in Llanervul, and the lordships of Rhiwhiraeth, Llyssin, and Coed Talog, in 1173.

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