ETHELISTAN GLORRYD Prince of Fferllys

  General Notes:

Nicknamed 'The Glorious'
Founder of the 4th Royal Tribe of Wales
Elystan is remembered as the founder of the fifth Royal Tribe of Wales and is mentioned as being King of Rhwng Gwy a Hafren, which in English means 'Between Wye and Severn'. This region (often referred to in later times as a Kingdom) was independent of the Princes of Deheubarth, Gwynedd and Powys and included the Cantrefs of Maelienydd, Elfael, Buellt, Gwerthrynion, Ceri and Cwmwd Deuddwr.

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His father was Cuhelyn ab Ifor (i.e. phonetically, Kai-helin son of Ivor). The word 'ab' (if preceding a vowel) or 'ap' (if not preceding a vowel) is the welsh for 'son of'. They stem from the older Brittonic 'Mab' and 'Map" which are more easily recognised as equating to the well known Gaelic 'Mac'. Peter Bartrum in his work on Welsh genealogies confirms that Elystan's father was Cuhelyn ab Ifor ap Severus ap Cadwr ap Cadwr Wenwyn ab Idnerth ab Iorwerth Hirflawdd ('Iorwerth of the Long Struggle'). Iorwerth was a direct descendant of Casnar Wledig ('The Ruler') of Powys and was a son of Tegonwy ap Teon. Bartrum records that he is first mentioned in De Situ Brecheniauc, writing: where he is called 'Gereuerth, King of Powys, whence are named the Iorwerthian' (P.C. Bartrum: A Welsh Classical Dictionary: people in History and legend up to about 1000). Teon is said to have been a Bishop and to have given his name to Carneddau Teon ('the Stones of Teon'), now known as the Stiperstone Hills, which are located in Shropshire near its western border with Wales. Teon was the ancestor of many tribes mainly in Powys, foremost of which was that of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn who founded a new dynasty of Princes in Powys, one of whose descendants was Owain Glyn Dw^r. Another of Teon's descendants was Bleddyn's relation Trahaearn ap Caradog of Arwystli, who seized the throne of Gwynnedd after Bleddyn's death. Bleddyn had latterly become ruler of Gwynedd as well as Powys.

Ethelistan Glorryd married Gwladys OF EDNGWAIN, daughter of Rhun OF EDNGWAIN and Unknown.