Subj: Meredith ONE. Date: 8/7/2002 6:20:12 PM Central Standard Time From: kenmero@iprimus.com.au (ken meredith) To: Bluchp56@aol.com (Bluchp56@aol.com) Meredith Pedigree Mervn Vrych King of Powis Born 817-840 Meredith One King of Powis married Esyllt, Dam: of Cynon Meryvyn Vrych of Tyndacthewey born 817 died 840 was succeeded bu his sonRoderick the Great in the yer 840. Roderick the King of Wales: married Angharad , heiress of Ceredigion> He was slained in battle in 873, and was suceded by Anarawd and Gwynedd: then by Mervyn of Powis and Cadell of Dehevbarth, Cadell died in 907 A.D. leaving a son Howell who married Angharad who ws the daugher of Mervyn King of Powis and Howell. The good King of all Wales had a son Owen who hada son Einon, who was slain in battle by the rebels of Gwentland, leaving a daughter. She later married Elystan Gladrydd the famous prince of Cerllys who had descended from ???????? Vraichfias, Earl of Hereford and Lord of Bromfield. Vraichfias married Angharad daughter to Howell DHA, leaving a daughter Lludene who had a daughter Eheingar who had a son Tudor Trevor Earl of Hereford whose son Grono Earl of Hereford had a daughter Reingar who married Gyelinap Ivor godson of Athelstone King of england 925-940 Lord of Builth. Elystan Glodrydd was born 933. Cadcyan --- Elystan Lord of Heredford llewelln --- Cadcyan Lord of Builth Sitsylt --- Llewelly Lord of Builth Howell --- Sitsylt Lord of Penbuilth Meridith --- Bengoch of Howell Llewellyn --- Meridith Rees --- Griffith Progenitors of the Gwyns Proginitors of the Earl of Cadegan. Notes. The Kingdom of Powis included Montgomery, Dinbign and Radnor. Ferllys was the territory between Wye and Severn. The above is extracted principally from Burkes Pedigree of the Earl of Cardgan. John Dee, son of the gntleman Server to Henry V111 born in London 1527, he was eductade at St. Johns College Cambridge and finished his studies at ?euvain in France in Astrology and Mathematics. He returned to England in 1551 and obtained a living at Upton on Severn. He was a great antiquarian, visiting Brampton Bryan and the Welsh border. He was imprisoned by Mary and released by order of Queen Elizabeth. He was a Warden of Lancaster College in 1781 and died at Mortlake in 1608 (?) There is a leter in the British museum bearing date 3rd ???? ???? addressed to Lord Burghley, complaining of the valuable document "what lye rotting apoiyled and tossed in an old chappel at Wignor" written by Rector Dee.