Person:Einion Ap Seisyll (1)

Einion ap Seisyll
 
 
Facts and Events
Name Einion ap Seisyll
Alt Name[1] Einion ap Seysyllt
Alt Name[4] Einion _____
Gender Male
Marriage to Nest ferch Madog
Other[2] Lord of Mathafarn
Other[3] Lord of Meirionydd
References
  1. Dwnn, Lewys, and Samuel Rush Meyrick. Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the marches between the years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn. (Llandovery: William Rees, 1846)
    Volume 1 page 306.
  2. Lloyd, Jacob Youde William. The history of the princes, the lords marcher and the ancient nobility of Powys Fodog and the ancient lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd. (London: T. Richards, 1881-1887)
    Volume 4 page 267.
  3. Lloyd, Jacob Youde William. The history of the princes, the lords marcher and the ancient nobility of Powys Fodog and the ancient lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd. (London: T. Richards, 1881-1887)
    Volume 6 page 36.

    Einion ab Seisyllt, Lord of Meirionydd. By an inquistion held at Bala, before Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Justice of North Wales, the next Monday after the festival of St. Michael, 6th Henry VI, it was found that in the time of Llywelyn ab Iowerth, Prince of Wales, he had all the lands between the Dovi and the Dewlas, and held the Lordship of Meirionydd in capite, from the sons of Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales. Argent, a lion passant <i>sable, inter three fleurs-de-lys gules.

  4. Seisyll 1, in Bartrum, Peter C. (Peter Clement). Welsh genealogies, AD 300-1400. (Wales: University of Wales Press, c1980).

    Bartrum's note: "For a legend concerning Einion ap Seisyll see MC 1. 255-6 and comment in HW 749 n, 174."