Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: True lord of the land – how strange that today, He rules not o'er Gwynedd; Lord of nought but the piled up stones of his tomb, Of the seven-foot grave in which he lies
• Name: the Great
• _MILT: Among the chieftains who battled against the Anglo-Norman power his place will always be high, if not indeed the highest of all, for no man ever made better or more judicious use of the native force of the Welsh people for adequate national ends
• Occupation: 1215; He allied himself with the barons who forced John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215

Notes:

Birth:
Aberffraw Castle

Llywelyn married Lady of Wales and Snowdon Lady Joan Plantagenet in 1205. Lady (daughter of King of England John Plantagenet and Queen Consort of England Isabella of Angoulême) was born in 1191; died on 2 Feb 1237; was buried in Anglesey, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
At Easter 1230, William de Braose, who was Llywelyn's prisoner at the time, was discovered with Joan in Llywelyn's bedchamber. William de Braose was hanged on 2 May 1230. Joan was placed under house arrest for twelve months, but then forgiven

1. Princess of North Wales Gwladus verch Llywelyn was born in 1205 in Gwynedd, Wales; died in 1251 in Wales.

Iowerth married Margred Maney verch Madog in 1163 in Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales. Margred was born in 1129 in Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales; died in 1198 in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Owain married Gwladus verch Llywarch. Gwladus was born in 1098 in Montgomeryshire, Wales; died in 1155 in Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]