Maud Ferch David Ap Rhys Ap Thomas (bef. 1520)

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Biography

Birth date estimated as at least 15 years before birth date of son John (father of poet John Donne).

Research Notes

Maud is supposedly the grandmother of the poet John Donne.

Investigate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_ap_Thomas.

Rhys was married twice: to Eva, daughter of Henri ap Gwilym of Cwrt Henri; and to Janet, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, who was widow of Thomas Stradling of St Donats. However, although Rhys had numerous mistresses and several illegitimate children, his legitimate son Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas died in 1521. Rhys himself died at Carmarthen Priory in 1525. After Henry VIII suppressed the monasteries, Rhys's tomb was moved to St. Peter's Church, also in Carmarthen.

Was Donne's Welsh link spurious? From Colclough, David: Entry for John Donne (1572 - 1631) in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Accessed Online 2 September 2019:

Donne claimed kinship through his father with the Dwn family of Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, using its arms on his earliest portrait, painted in 1591, as well as on one of his seals and on his monument (the arms are azure, a wolf salient, with a crest of snakes bound in a sheaf), but there is no evidence extant concerning his father's family to support this claim.

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Sources

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Acknowledgments

Thank you to Peter Thorn for creating WikiTree profile Ap Rhys Ap Thomas-1 through the import of Thorn.ged on May 15, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Peter and others.