Tredegar House, Newport, Wales, UK

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Wales

Topics Teams | Wales Historic Buildings Team | Tredegar House Timeline (below)

Tredegar House, in Newport, Monmouthshire, is managed by the UK's National Trust, which provides the following overview:

"For more than 500 years the house was home to one of the greatest Welsh families, the Morgans, later Lords Tredegar. The Morgan family owned more than 40,000 acres in Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Glamorgan at the end of the 18th century. Their lives impacted on the population of south-east Wales socially, economically and politically and influenced the heritage of the area."^[1]

An article posted on the Tredegar House website about the family, "Welsh, wealthy and wild, the Morgan family called Tredegar House home for centuries", notes that the family claimed descent from the Welsh princes and that "Sir William Morgan and his wife, Blanche, were the visionaries behind the red brick mansion that you see today [which] was built in the 1670s.... the result of renovations to the existing house.... Records show that there has been a house on this site since the medieval age".^[1][2]

Timeline

From the "earliest record of someone with the name Morgan living at Tredegar"^[3] to the 1670s renovation.^[1]

• 1402: Llewellyn Ap Morgan is living at Tredegar^[3]
• ... need owners from Llewellyn ap Morgan to whomever William Morgan (d 1569) inherited from
• 1569: Miles Morgan, son of William's illegitimate son John^[4][5]
• 1578: Thomas Morgan (Miles' cousin)^[4][6]
• 1604 (after): Sir William Morgan succeeded his father Thomas,^[7] who died in 1603^[6]
• 1652: Thomas Morgan, eldest son and heir of Sir William^[7]
• missing a generation? more?
• 1670s: William Morgan and Blanche, his wife, renovate the stone manor to red brick.^[1]

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Tredegar House: Home, Overview, Meet the Morgan Family.
2. ↑ For more information about the Morgans, see this WikiTree page.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Wikipedia: Tredegar House (accessed 10 April 2022).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} History of Parliament Online: William Morgan (-1569).
5. ↑ From the WikiTree profile for Thomas Morgan MP (1534-1603), citing his Wikipedia article.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} History of Parliament Online: Thomas Morgan ( - 1603). Thomas "suc. fa. 1577, cos. 1578".
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} History of Parliament Online: Sir William Morgan (1567-1652).

Additional Reading

• Gingell, Becky. "A Study into the Material Culture of the Morgan Family of Tredegar House in the late-Seventeenth Century", 2012 dissertation (pdf) posted by Friends of Tredegar House, accessed 12 April 2022.