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Gesail Gyfarch

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Location: Dolbenmaen, Eifionydd, Dunodingmap
Surname/tag: Wynn Wynne
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A summary of the history of the dwellings of Gesail Gyfarch. There is a sequence of four nearby houses successively linked to the same family – later the Wynn family of Gwydir.

1. Cefn y Fan
  • The remains of Llys Ynghefn y fan[1], the home of Ieuan ap Hywel ap Maredudd in the 14th century, underlies the stone-built house of the middle of later part of the 14th century associated with his grandson Maredudd ap Hywel. Owain Glyndwr’s men burnt down both Cefn y fan and Y Gesail Gyfarch in 1403 and Ystum Cegid House was built after this, close by the Neolithic Burial Chamber[2][3], Ystum Cegid Isaf.
2. Ystum Cegid Ganol
  • Built following the destruction of Cefn Y Fan, there were three places called Ystum-cegid, parts of the Ystum Cegid estate. As the name shows Ystum Gegid Ganol was the middle one, canol being the Welsh for middle.
Ystum Cegid Ganol


3. Y Gesail Gyfarch
  • The platform houses and enclosures 300 yards NW of the modern house of Y Gesail Gyfarch is said to be one of the most important early house sites in Eifionydd, being thought to be the home of the lords of Penefed. Maredudd ap Hywel. dwelt at both Cefn y fan and Gesail Gyfarch.
  • His sons were Ieuan ap Maredudd who died in 1403 in the Glyndwr uprising. Ieuan supported the King and Glyndwr’s men burnt down both Cefn y fan and Y Gesail Gyfarch in 1403. Ieuan ap Maredudd’s grandson was the founder of the Clenennau estate. Robert ap Maredudd from whom the Wynn family of Gwydir were descended. Robert supported Owain Glyndwr, was pardoned by the Henry V in 1422 and married when he was about 80.
  • Robert ap Maredudd’s son, Ieuan ap Robert (c1437-1469) in 1462 received Y Gesail Gyfarch as his inheritance. This was probably the repaired house. Between 1462-68 the hall of his house was attacked … the outlaws were in the outhouses about and the upper chambers in the lower end of the hall …The attackers made diverse breaches … but were driven off from one side of the house with their arrows. He was active in the Wars of the Roses until his death of the plague, aged 31.
  • His eldest son, Maredudd ap Ieuan ap Robert (1460-1525) was of Crug, Penamnen and then Gwydir. He was the founder of the Wynne family of Gwydir. His 1528 Eifionydd rental includes Gesail Gyfarch, where he had probably never actually lived. In 1525 Humphrey Wynn his son inherited Gesail Gyfarch, and he further consolidated the holding. He married the heiress of Cwm Bowydd, Ffestiniog, In 1583 Humphrey Wynn’s son John Wynn ap Humphrey of Gesail Gyfarch made an entail listing his lands. (C A Gresham, 1973, Eifionydd, p 90) In 1593 William Maurice of Clenennau three times tried to attack John Wynn and his adult son Robert. In 1594 in another attack, John Wynn retreated into the house but his wife at the door was harassed and died. (C A Gresham, 1973, Eifionydd, p 91) Was this at the stone house? John Wynn then moved to Cwm Bowydd, Ffestiniog, where he died before 1623.2 His son, Robert ap John Wynn alias Robert Wynn, gentleman, lived at Gesail Gyfarch. It was possibly he who build the stone house on the new site?




Sources

  1. https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/26248/
  2. https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=5305
  3. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ystum_Cegid_Isaf
  • Y GESAIL GYFARCH, Penmorfa, Gwynedd, SH 540417 Researched by Margaret Dunn




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