Madog Crypl

Madog Crypl or Madog Crippil (c.1275--1304) was a descendant of the sovereign Princes of Powys Fadog and Lords of Dinas Bran. He is sometimes described as Madog III of Powys Fadog. However, he was only lord of some of the family lands under the English crown.

He was still a child at the death of his father Gruffydd Fychan in 1289, so that he lands were placed in the custody of the queen and then of Reginald de Grey, Justice of Chester and then Thomas of Macclesfield. Madog ap Gruffydd asked the king for a suitable provision to be made for him, and seems to have been granted his father's lands. These apparently consisted of Glyn Dwfrdwy in Edeirnion and half of the commote of Cynllaith, comprising the area around Sycharth.

Madog married Gwenllian daughter of Ithel Fychan of Halkin and had a son Gruffydd of Rhuddallt, who was married on 8 July 1304 at the tender age of six to Elizabeth daughter of John LeStrange of Knockin. Madog died the same year in his manor of Rhuddallt, probably in Glyn Dyfrdwy. [J. E. Lloyd, "Owen Glendower: Owen Glyn Dŵr" (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1931), 11-13. ]

Posterity

Gruffydd of Rhuddallt became a ward of his father in law, who died in 1309. Custody of his lands was then granted to Edmund Hakluyt, who sold the wardship to Roger Mortimer of Chirk. However, he probably stayed with the LeStrange family, as Roger Mortimer disputed the validity of the marriage in 1305. Gruffydd ultimately obtained possession of his lands in March 1321. He held the two lordships by Welsh barony ("pennaeth"), which required him toserve in the king's army with his men at the king's expense. In 1328, he settled his lands on himself and his wife in tail. In 1332 he had custody of the manor and castle of Ellesmere, recently granted to his brother in law Eubolo LeStrange. He died sometime after 1343.

Gruffydd was probably succeeded by his son Gruffydd Fychan II who is reported to have died shortly before 1370, and was the father of Owain Glyndwr. [Lloyd, 12-17. ] [Davies, R.R., "The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr" (Oxford University Press, 1995:repr. 2001), p.130. ] However, some genealogical tables insert another generation with a Madog Fychan as son of Madog Crypl.

References

* [http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/walesprinces.htm Welsh Princes] based on "Burkes Royal Families" (1973)