Unknown (ferch Rafe) Belward (abt. 1150)

Born about 1150 in Malpas, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Rafe's Daughter

This is the profile of an unknown daughter of Rafe ab Einion who married William Belward.

Peter Cotgreave has proposed that Rafe (Ralph) ab Einion, Baron of Malpas, had two unnamed daughters who married, respectively, William le Belward and William Patric, thus conveying separate moieties of the barony of Malpas to their descendants. ^[1]

Cotgreave's theory requires that there be no male heir of Ralph ab Einion and therefore the moieties passed to the two daughters and their respective husbands and descendants. ^[1]

Cotgreave shows Ralph, known as Baron of Malpas, married to Beatrix, daughter of the Earl of Chester, with two daughters: ^[2]

1. daughter married William Belward
2. daughter married William Patric

1150 Birth Year Estimates

Cotgreave notes that Gruffydd ab Owain was a first cousin of the Prince of Gwynedd called Griffith ap Cynan, who was born in 1054. This allows a very rough estimate for the birth of Ralph ab Einion's daughters in 1150, a credible date for the mother of David the Clerk of Malpas and his brother (who were born between 1170 and 1190. ^[3]

Issue

Because Cotgreave's impression is that a moiety of Malpas passed to William le Belward's children due to his marriage to Rafe's daughter, she is assumed to be the mother of William le Belward's children:

1. David le Clerk de Malpas, born, say 1160
2. Robert de Cholmondeley, born, say, 1175
3. Richard FitzWilliam, born, say, 1180

Research Notes: Named Children of Rafe ab Einion

Various secondary sources provide more details about Rafe's children. Regrettably, much of it is conflicting. In all, one finds three daughters of Rafe, as well as a son. The information is provided here without attempting to fit it together.

Beannan

Boyer, following Bartrum, presents Beannan as a named daughter of Ralph ab Einion. Boyer asserts that Beannan married William le Belward and they had a son David le Clerk or Dan David, Sheriff of Cheshire 1251-1252. ^[4] (Actually, David, Sheriff in 1251-1252, was most likely "David the Bastard."

Boyer presents Beannan^[4] as the daughter of Ralph ab Einion ap Dafydd ap Miles who was born, say, 1100. ^[4]

Boyer presents Beannan's mother as Beatrix of Chester, daughter of Ranulf and sister of Hugh of Cyfeiliog, Earl of Chester. ^[4]

In his earlier work on English ancestors, however, Boyer shows Beannan married to David, son of William le Belward. ^{[5] [6]}

Wolcott estimates Beannan's birth as c. 1160, and shows Beannan's mother as the daughter of Earl Ranulf II and brother of Earl Hugh Cyfeiliog (Hugh de Kevelioc), 5th Earl of Chester, married Ralph of Malpas ab Einion ap Dafydd ap Miles ap Gruffudd ap Owain. ^[7]

Wolcott ^[7] shows Beannan, born say 1160, married to Dan David the clerk, born 1185, living 1251/1252. However, the 1580 visitation shows David le Clerk, son of William le Belward, married to Margareta, filia et haeres. ^[8]

Margaret

In his work on English ancestry, Boyer shows a Margaret ferch Ralph ab Einion married to David, son of William Belward. ^[6]

This follows the Visitation of Cheshire (1580) which shows "Margareta filia et haeres" as a daughter of "Radulphus Baro de Mallpas" and his wife "Beatrix soror Hugonis Keveliock Co. Cestriae." ^[9]

An article on Joyce Cherleton written in 1880 gives the following account, with several relationships confused:

The other coheir of the above Ralph ab Eignion was Margaret, the wife of Sir David le Clarke, son of William le Belward of Malpas by Tanglwst, seventh daughter of Hugh Kevelioc, Earl of Chester, by Gertrude, daughter of the Earl of Eureux. Sir David le Clarke and Margaret his wife had issue, Sir Willaim de Malpas, Knight, and others. He was owner of a moiety of the barony of Malpas, and died without any legitimate issue; but by his mistress, Beatrix, sister of Roger de Montealto, he had three natural sons, of whom David le Clarke intruded himself into a moiety of the barony of Malpas. This David married Constance, daughter of Owain Cyfeilioc, lord of Powis, and had issue, two coheirs, Beatrix and Idonea. ^[10]

Beatrix

An Archaeological Cambrensis article shows Beatrix as daughter and coheir of Ralph ab Einion, Baron of Malpas. ^[10] The article cites Harleian MS 2119 which states that Beatrice married William Patrick of Malpas and had issue, a daughter and heiress, Isabel, wife of Richard Sutton. ^[10]

A pedigree of the Egerton family, dated 1650, states that Beatrice, daughter and coheir of David le Clarke, married first, William Patrick, by whom she had issue, a daughter and heir, Isabel, wife of Richard de Sutton; and secondly, Rodricke, son of Griffith ab Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and had issue also by him. ^[10]

William Patrick was son of Robert Patrick, heir to a moiety of the barony of Malpas, jure matris, son of Robert Patrick by Beatrix, daughter and coheir of Ralph ab Einion, Baron of malpas. This Einion was son of Maelor, and was Baron of Malpas and Lord of Bromfeilde, whereof he was disinherited by Hugh Kiveilioch, Earl of Chester, temp Henry II. He is said to have married Beatrix, a natural daughter of Randulph Gernons, Earl of Chester. The above Maelor, from whom the lordship of Bromfield was called Maelor Gymraeg, was son of Gruffudd ab Owain ab iago ab Idwal Voel (slain by the Danes and Englishmen, 940) ab Anarawd (ob 913), first son of Rhodri Mawr, King of all Wales, slain 877. ^[10]

From Harleian MS 1977 which gives the descendants of Prince Rhodri ab Gruffydd by Bewtrice, daughter and coheir of David Breurton (als. Clarke), Baron of Malpas: ^[10]

David

Boyer shows Beannan with a brother David, who married Constance ferch Owain Cyfeiliog. ^[4]

Bartrum shows Ralph as the father of two children: Beannan, named earlier, and David, who married Constance ferch Owain Cyfeiliog ^[11] Boyer follows Bartrum in this respect. ^[4] Boyer shows David married to Constance ferch Owain Cyfeiliog ^[4][12]

Wolcott shows Beannan and William Malpas le Belward as parents of Dan David le Clerc.(1185)^[7]

Alternatively, however, the Cherleton study makes Sir David le Clarke the son of William le Belward of Malpas and another mother, Tanglwst, the seventh daughter of Hugh Keveilioc, Earl of Chester, by Gertrude, daughter of the Earl of Eureux. ^[10]

Bartrum further shows David le Clerck, or Dan David, as Sheriff of Cheshire 1251-2. This timing is consistent with David the Bastard. Boyer, ^[5] citing Ormerod and T. C. Banks as well as Bartrum, shows the Sir David who married Constance ferch owain Cyfeiliog as Sir David de Mallo-Passu, the Bastard.

When the various details associated with Dafydd ap Rafe, born 1150, have been stripped away, virtually nothing is left. Therefore he has been disconnected as a son of Ralph ab Einion.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Peter Cotgreave. The barony of Malpas in the twelfth century. Transactions, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 2008, 157.2. page 31
2. ↑ Cotgreave, Page 27
3. ↑ Cotgreave page 21
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Carl Boyer, 3rd. Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans. Generally Follows Bartrum. Santa Clarita, California, 2004. Section on Malpas. Ralph ab Einion is #6 on page 246
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans. By the author: Santa Clarita, California, 2001. William le Belward is #3 on page 144.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Carl Boyer, 3rd. Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans. by the author: Santa Clarita, California, 2001. Sir David de Malpas, alias le Clerc, is #4 on page 71.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Darrell Wolcott, Ancient Wales Studies. The "Malpas" Family in Cheshire
8. ↑ Visitation of Cheshire, page 159, cited by Wolcott
9. ↑ Robert Glover, Somerset Herald. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580. Harleian Society, London, 1882. Page 159.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6} Notes on Joyce Cherleton and her Descendants Archaeologia Cambrensis] (Google eBook). Cambrian Archaeological Association, Wales, 1880; page 60
11. ↑ Bartrum
12. ↑ Carl Boyer, 3rd. Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans. By the author: Santa Clarita, California, 2004. Owain Cyfeiliog is #35 on page 17