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Ieuan ap Robert of Cesail Gyfarch and Gwydir
Meredydd ap Ieuan ap Robert of Keselgyfarch Gwedir, Carnarvonshire
(-1525)
Alice verch William Griffith ap Robin of Cochwillan
Janet verch Maredydd ap Ieuan

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Edmund Griffith
2. Sir John Puleston of Bers, Chamberlain of North Wales

Janet verch Maredydd ap Ieuan 1 2 3

  • Marriage (1): Edmund Griffith
  • Marriage (2): Sir John Puleston of Bers, Chamberlain of North Wales

   Other names for Janet were Jonet verch Meredith and Sioned verch Meredydd ap Ieuan ap Robert.

  Research Notes:

2nd wife of Sir John Puleston of Bers.

The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, Vol. II lists two wives for Sir John Puleston of Bers:
1 Gaynor, d. of Robert ab Maredudd ab Hwlcyn Llwyd of Glyn Llifon.
2 Janet, d. of Maredydd ab Ieuan ab Robert of Cesail Gyfarch, who purchased Gwydir.
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From Welsh Biography Online (http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-PULE-EST-1283.html) :

"(3) A cadet branch of the Pulestons of Hafod-y-wern flourished at Caernarvon for part of the 16th cent., its founder being the son by his first marriage (to Elin, daughter of Robert Whitney), of John Puleston ('Hen'), Sir JOHN PULESTON (d. 1551), who was sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1543-4, Member of Parliament for Caernarvon, 1541-4, and for Caernarvonshire, 1545-7 and 1547-51, chamberlain of North Wales, 1547, and constable of Caernarvon castle, 1523-51. He m. (1) Gaynor, daughter of Robert ap Meredydd ap Hwlcyn Llwyd of Glynllifon , and (2) Sioned, daughter of Meredydd ap Ieuan ap Robert, of Cesail Gyfarch and Gwydir . From HUGH PULESTON, his son by his second wife, who m. Margaret, daughter and heiress of Hugh Lloyd, of Llwynycnotiau, near Wrexham, were descended the Pulestons of that place. "
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From The History of the Gwydir Family, p. 85:

"VI. Jonet, wife first of Edmund Gruffith, son of Sir William Gruffith the elder Knight, after him of Sir John Puleston, Knight."


Janet married Edmund Griffith, son of Sir William Griffith Lord of Penrhyn Castle, Chamberlain of North Wales and Joan Troutbeck. (Edmund Griffith was born about 1480.)


Janet next married Sir John Puleston of Bers, Chamberlain of North Wales, son of John Hên Puleston of Hafod-y-Wern, Constable of Caernarfon Castle and Eleanor Whitney. (Sir John Puleston of Bers, Chamberlain of North Wales was born about 1483 in Hafod-y-Wern, Bersham, (Wrexham) Denbighshire, Wales and died in 1551 in Bersham, (Wrexham), Denbighshire, Wales.)


Sources


1 Lloyd, Jacob Youde Wukkuan, <i>The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd.</i> (Vol. 2. London: T. Richards, 1882.).

2 Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, <i>Dictionary of Welsh Biography</i> (National Library of Wales. 2007. <u>Welsh Biography Online</u>. <http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/index.html> ), http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-PULE-EST-1283.html.

3 Wynne, John, <i>The History of the Gwydir Family.</i> (Oswestry: Woodall and Venables, 1878.), p. 85.


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