Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Paternal Family Tree: Aberffraw
Maternal Family Tree: Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd 1065-1162
In or before 1100 [her father] King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 44) and [her mother] Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 34) were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Cynan ab Iago King Gwynedd and [her grandmother] Ragnaillt Unknown Queen Consort Gwynedd. They were second cousin once removed.
Around 1100 Gwenllian Aberffraw was born to [her father] King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 45) and [her mother] Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 35).
Around 1113 Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 32) and Gwenllian Aberffraw (age 13) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Deheubarth. She the daughter of King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 58) and Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 48). He the son of Rhys ap Tewdwr King Deheubarth and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon Mathrafal Queen Consort Deheubarth (age 53). They were half second cousin once removed.
Before 1130 [her brother] Owain "Great" King Gwynedd (age 29) and [her sister-in-law] Gwladus Unknown Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 14) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Gwynedd. He the son of [her father] King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd (age 74) and [her mother] Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd (age 64).
In 1130 [her son] Maredudd King Deheubarth was born to [her husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 49) and Gwenllian Aberffraw (age 30).
In 1132 [her son] Rhys ap Gruffydd "The Lord Rhys" Dinefwr was born to [her husband] Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth (age 51) and Gwenllian Aberffraw (age 32). He married 1155 his first cousin Gwenllian ferch Madog Mathrafal, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd Mathrafal Prince Powys and Susanna Aberffraw, and had issue.
In 1136 a battle, or skirmish, was fought at Maes Gwenllian [Map] between the Welsh forces of Gwenllian (age 36), wife of [her husband] Gruffydd (age 55), with her two sons, and the Norman force of Maurice de Londres. Gwenllian and her two sons [her son] Morgan Dinefwr and [her son] Maelgwn Dinefwr were killed.
Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. 1137. [her former husband] Griffyth-ap-Rhys (age 56), king of Wales, perished through the artifices of his wife.1
Note 1. So far from this being the case, Gwenlian, the wife of Griffythap-Rhys, prince of South Wales, a woman of a gallant spirit, seconded her husband's efforts for independence, and, in his absence, took the field in person at the head of her forces. See Giraldus Cambrensis Itin. i., c. iv., and Dr. Powell's notes: see also Warrington's History of Wales, p. 293.
[her daughter] Gwladus Dinefwr was born to Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw .
[her daughter] Elizabeth Dinefwr was born to Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw .
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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[her daughter] Nest Dinefwr was born to Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw .
[her son] Morgan Dinefwr was born to Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw .
[her son] Maelgwn Dinefwr was born to Gruffudd ap Rhys King Deheubarth and Gwenllian Aberffraw .
Kings Gwynedd: Grand Daughter of Cynan ab Iago King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 5 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Cadell ap Brochfael King Powys
Great x 4 Grandfather: Idwal ap Anaward "Foel aka Bald" King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandfather: Meurig ap Idwal Aberffraw
Great x 2 Grandfather: Idwal ap Meurig Aberffraw
Great x 1 Grandfather: Iago ab Idwal ap Meurig Aberffraw Prince Gwynedd
GrandFather: Cynan ab Iago King Gwynedd
Father: King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd
Great x 2 Grandfather: Sitric Silkbeard King Dublin
Great x 1 Grandfather: Olaf mac Sitriuc
GrandMother: Ragnaillt Unknown Queen Consort Gwynedd
Gwenllian Aberffraw Queen Consort Deheubarth
Great x 4 Grandfather: Owain King Deheubarth
Great x 3 Grandfather: Einion Dinefwr
Great x 2 Grandfather: Gronwy Ap Einion Dinefwr
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edwin of Tegeingl
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ælfgar Earl of Mercia and East Anglia
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edwin Earl of Mercia
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ethelfleda or Aldgyth of Mercia
GrandFather: Owain ab Edwin
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gwerystan ap Gwaithfoed Mathrafal
Great x 2 Grandfather: Cynfyn ap Gwersytan Mathrafal
Great x 3 Grandmother: Nest ferch Cadell ap Brochfael King Powys
Great x 1 Grandmother: Iwerydd Mathrafal
Great x 3 Grandfather: Sitric Silkbeard King Dublin
Great x 2 Grandmother: Unnamed d Sitric Silkbeard King Dublin
Mother: Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd