OwainBrogyntyn ap Madog (fl. 1160–1186) was prince of Powys and the third and illegitimate son of kingMadog ap Maredudd, the last king of a unitedKingdom of Powys.[1] He was the son of Madog by the daughter of theMaer du or "black mayor" ofRûg inEdeyrnion however some sources cite his mother as Susanna making him legitimate instead. He was the brother of princeGruffydd Maelor, ancestor of princeOwain Glyndŵr.
Presumably Owain Brogyntyn would have been raised by his mother at Rûg in Edeyrnion. He was acknowledged by his father and granted by him the lordship of Edeyrnion and alsoDinmael. It is quite possible that he inherited some of these lands through his maternal grandfather, theMaer Du, which were confirmed and perhaps extended by his father the king of Powys. At some point he also came into possession ofCastle Brogyntyn on the English borders atSelattyn close toOswestry.
In 1160 after the death of his father and his eldest half-brother, he inherited a share of the Kingdom of Powys - specifically, the cantref ofPenllyn (which included Edeyrnion and Dinmael).[2] The military skill and strength of Madog had preventedOwain Gwynedd (the ruling Prince of Gwynedd) from assertinghegemony over Powys, but following Madog's death, Owain Gwynedd was able to force OwainBrogyntyn to become hisvassal; as a consequence, Penllyn became part of Gwynedd.
Owain first marriedJonet verch Hywel (whose ancestor wasAthelstan Glodrudd of the FifthRoyal Tribe) but with her had no children. He next marriedMarred ferch Einion ap Seisyllt who was to be the mother of his three sons, Bleddyn, Gruffydd, Iorwerth.Bleddyn on the death of his father was made Lord of Dinmael, some notable descendants patrilineally of Bleddyn are the Wynn's of Dudleston descended from Howell second son of Owain ap Bleddyn whose coat of arms is the black lion rampart on an Ardent(Silver)shield, who were living in 1634 with the descendant of the family known as Morgan Wynn Barrister at Law living in the parish of Dudleston at the Estate inherited by the family through an earlier marriage, the Pentre Morgan property. He also had two younger brother Richard and Thomas Wynn.
His eldest son,Gruffydd ap Owain Brogyntyn, inherited half the Lordship of Edeirnion centred on Hendwr, and his eldest son Dafydd ap Gruffydd was createdBaron of Hendwr by Edward I for supporting his cause.
His youngest son,Iorwerth ab Owain Brogyntyn, who inherited half the Lordship of Edeirnion, marriedEfa verch Madoc the sole heir of Madoc, Lord ofMawddwy (the younger son ofGwenwynwyn, prince ofPowys Wenwynwyn). The son of Iorwerth and Efa,Gruffudd ab Iorwerth, was confirmed in his lands asBaron of Kymmer-yn-Edeirnion byEdward I under the terms of theStatute of Rhuddlan by which England organised the subjugation of Wales.
According to Philip York writing in 1799 a cup and a dagger belonging to Owain Brogyntyn were preserved atRûg in Edeyrnion. Later accounts in theNational Gazetteer dated 1868 state that a cup and dagger in the possession of "Colonel Vaughan of Rhug" were once owned by another Owain of Powys, the much laterOwain Glyndŵr. These objects, whoever the original owner, may now be lost.
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