Madog Crypl (c. 1275 – 1304) was a descendant of the sovereign Princes of Powys Fadog

Powys Fadog

Powys Fadog or Lower Powys was the northern portion of the former princely realm of Powys which split in two following the death of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys in 1160...

 and Lords of Dinas Bran. He is sometimes described as Madog III of Powys Fadog. However, he was only lord of some of the family lands under the English

England

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 crown.

He was still a child at the death of his father Gruffydd Fychan

Gruffydd Fychan I

Gruffudd Fychan I, Prince of Powys Fadog from 1277 to 1284, was the youngest of the four sons of Gruffudd ap Madog, Lord of Dinas Bran.On his father's death in 1269 his share was Iâl and Edeirnion, which included Glyn Dyfrdwy....

 in 1289, so that he lands were placed in the custody of the queen and then of Reginald de Grey

Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton

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, Justice of Chester

Justice of Chester

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 and then Thomas of Macclesfield. Madog ap Gruffydd asked the king for a suitable provision to be made for him, and seems to have been granted his father's lands. These apparently consisted of Glyn Dwfrdwy in Edeirnion

Edeirnion

Edeirnion is an area of the county of Denbighshire and an ancient commote of medieval Wales. According to tradition, it was named after its eponymous founder Edern or Edeyrn....

 and half of the commote

Commote

A commote , sometimes spelt in older documents as cymwd, was a secular division of land in Medieval Wales. The word derives from the prefix cym- and the noun bod...

 of Cynllaith

Cynllaith

Cynllaith was a cwmwd of north east Wales which was once part of the Kingdom of Powys and later part of the smaller Kingdom of Powys Fadog. Cynllaith, or at least the part of it called Cynlaith Owain, was part of the inheritance of Owain Glyndŵr in 1370...

, comprising the area around Sycharth

Sycharth

Sycharth is a small hamlet in the community of Llangedwyn in Powys in eastern Wales near Llansilin, 7 miles west of Oswestry.- Location :Sycharth sits in the valley of the River Cynllaith, a tributary of the Afon Tanat...

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Madog married Gwenllian daughter of Ithel Fychan of Halkin and had a son Gruffydd of Rhuddallt, who was married on 8 July 1304 at the age of six to Elizabeth daughter of John LeStrange of Knockin

Knockin

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. Madog died the same year in his manor of Rhuddallt, probably in Glyn Dyfrdwy.

Posterity

Gruffydd of Rhuddallt became a ward of his father in law, who died in 1309. Custody of his lands was then granted to Edmund Hakluyt, who sold the wardship to Roger Mortimer of Chirk. However, he probably stayed with the LeStrange family, as Roger Mortimer disputed the validity of the marriage in 1305. Gruffydd ultimately obtained possession of his lands in March 1321. He held the two lordships by Welsh barony (pennaeth), which required him toserve in the king's army with his men at the king's expense. In 1328, he settled his lands on himself and his wife in tail

Entail

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. In 1332 he had custody of the manor and castle of Ellesmere

Ellesmere

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, recently granted to his brother in law Eubolo LeStrange. He died sometime after 1343.

Gruffydd was probably succeeded by his son Gruffydd Fychan II

Gruffydd Fychan II

Gruffudd Fychan II was Lord of Glyndyfrdwy and Lord of Cynllaith Owain c.1330-1369. As such, he had a claim to be hereditary prince of Powys Fadog.- Ancestry :...

 who is reported to have died shortly before 1370, and was the father of Owain Glyndwr

Owain Glyndwr

Owain Glyndŵr , or Owain Glyn Dŵr, anglicised by William Shakespeare as Owen Glendower , was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales...

. However, some genealogical tables insert another generation with a Madog Fychan

Madog Fychan

Madog Fychan may have had a claim to be a hereditary Prince of Powys Fadog 1304-c.1325. However his very existence is uncertain. It is claimed that he succeeded to his father Madog Crypl's titles on his death in 1304. However, it is more likely that Madog Crypl's son was Gruffydd, who was...

as son of Madog Crypl.