Family/Spouse: Thomas GIBBON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Jane Margaret GAMAGE. Jane (daughter of Sir John GAMAGE and Unknown LLEWELLYN) was born in in Coyty, Glamorgan, Wales; died about 1513. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert Mathew Line: <>

Robert Mathew (Sir Mathew ap Ievan) "of Castell-Y-Mynach in Pentyrch, second son of Sir Mathew of Llandaff by Jenet Fleming; married Alice daughter and co-heir of Jenkin Thomas ap Evan David of Pant-Y-Corred ap Ll Ychan ap Ll ap Cynfrig, Lord of Llantrithyd, ap Howel ap Madoc, Lord of Ruthyn, ap Jestyn. She was the heir of Castell-Y-Mynach." The lineage of Alice, wife of Robert Mathew, is about the same as that of Cecil, wife of Sir Ievan. Briefly, it is as follows: Gwrgan, Lord of Glamorgan, had Jestyn ap Gwrgan, who had Madoc, Lord of Buthyn, who had Howel, who had Cynfrig, Lord of Llantrithyd and Radyr, who had Llewelyn of Llantrighyd, who had Llewelyn-Ychan, second son of Llewelyn ap Cynfrig, was Lord of Miscin. He married Catherine, daughter and heir of Jevan Goch of Rhydlavar, and had Jevan, Constable of Miscin.

Robert Mathew, of Castle Menych, who married Maud, daughter of Thomas ap Howell, Lord of Brecknock. His immediate descendant, Thomas (M.P. of the county of Glamorgan) appears in Peter Le Neve's MMS., together with David Mathew of Llandaff, as one of the Knights of the proposed Order Of The Royal Oak, in 1661; Cecil, daughter and heir to his grandson, Charles Mathews, of Henson and Castle Meynch (by Cecil, only daughter and heir to the celebrated loyalist, Judge Jenkyns), married Charles Talbot, Lord Chancellor of England, (Great-Grandfather to the present Earl Talbot), who was created, in 1733 Baron Talbot, of Henson, Glamorgan, younger sons of this branch became seated at Upton Grey and Alton, Hants County, and at Stansted Park, Sussex, of this latter line, Henry married Anne, daughter and heir of the Honorable Stanislaus Browne, brother to viscount Montagu; and his son, Francis about the year 1755. Settled in Spain, where he left a numerous issue. The great-grandson of Maurice Mathew, of Roos, second son of Robert, of Castle Menych, Tobias Mathew, Lord Archbishop of York, ranks deservedly among the most eminent English prelates. His grace died March 29, 1628, and his son Sir Toby Mathew, M.P. for St. Albans, died unmarried in 1655

Notes from site of Barry L Matthews <>

ROBERT MATHEW (SIR MATHEW AP IEVAN) "OF CASTELL-Y-MYNACH IN PENTYRCH, SECOND SON OF SIR MATTHEW AP EVAN OF LLANDAFF BY JENET FLEMING; M. ALICE, D. AND CO-H. OF JENKIN THOMAS AP EVAN DAVID OF PANT-Y-CORRED AP L1. YCHAN AP L1. AP CYNFRIG, LORD OF LLANTRITHYD, AP HOWEL AP MADOC, LORD OF RUTHYN, AP JESTYN. SHE WAS THE HEIR OF CASTELL-Y-MYNACH." THE LINEAGE OF ALICE, WIFE OF ROBERET MATHEW, IS THE SAME (TO A POINT) AS THAT OF CECIL, WIFE OF SIR IEVAN. BRIEFLY, TO THE POINT OF DIVERGANCE, IT IS THUS: I. GWRGAN, LORD OF GLAMORGAN; HAD II. JESTYN AP GWRGAN, WHO HAD III. MADOC, LORD OF RUTHYN WHO HAD ISSUE; IV, HOWEL, WHO HAD V. CYNFRIG, LORD OF LLANTRITHYD AND RADYR, WHO HAD VI. LLEWELYN OF LLANTRIGHYD, WHO HAD VII. LLEWELYN-YCHAN, SECOND SON OF LLEWELYN AP CYNFRIG, WAS LORD OF MISCIN. HE M. CATHERINE, D. OF HOPKIN AP HOWEL-VACHAN, OF CO. BRECON. ISSUE: 1. DAVID ...VII. DAVID OF MISCIN, M. CATHERINE D. AND H. OF JEVAN GOCH OF RHYDLAVAR, AND HAD: IX. JEVAN, CONSTABLE OF MISCIN, M. MARGARET, D. OF JENKIN KEMEYS OF BEGAN...X. THOMAS PF PENCOED, M. 1ST A D. OF REES JENKIN, 2ND A D. OF HOWEL GIBBON OF CEFN-TRE-PAYN. BY THE 1ST HE HAD: XI. JENKIN OF PEN-COED, M. JENET, D. OF PHILIP THOMAS GWILIM HERBERT. ISSUE: XII. ALICE, D. AND CO-H, M. ROBERT MATHEW.

INFO. ONLY: ROBERT MATHEW MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE EXISTED. FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCE, WHICH IS THE ONLY ONE IN WHICH I HAVE FOUND SIR DAVID MATHEW LISTED AS HAVING HAD A SON, ROBERT, IT APPEARS THAT THE REFERENCE IN QUESTION HAS MIXED UP ROBERT MATHEW, BROTHER OF SIR DAVID MATHEW WITH A POSSIBLE SON OF SIR DAVID'S NAMED ROBERT: "ROBERT MATHEW, OF CASTLE MENYCH, WHO M. MAUDE, DAU. OF THOMAS AP HOWELL, LORD OF BRECKNOCK. HIS IMMEDIATE DESCENDANT, THOMAS (M.P. CO. GLAMORGAN) APPEARS IN PETER LE NEVE'S MMS., TOGETHER WITH DAVID MATHEW OF LLANDAFF, AS ONE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE PROPOSED ORDER OF THE ROYAL OAK, IN 1661; CECIL, DAU. AND HEIR TO HIS GRANDSON, CHARLES MATHEWS, OF HENSON AND CASTLE MEYNCH (BY CECIL, ONLY DAU. AND HEIR TO THE CELEBRATED LOYALIST, JUDGE JENKYNS) M. CHARLES TALBOT, LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, (GREAT-GRANDFATHER TO THE PRESENT EARL TALBOT) WHO WAS CREATED, IN 1733 BARON TALBOT, OF HENSON CO. GLAMORGAN, YOUNGER SONS OF THIS BRNACH BECAME SEATED AT UPTON GREY AND ALTON CO. HANTS, AND AT STANSTED PARK, CO. SUSSEX. OF THIS LATTER LINE, HENRY M. ANNE, DAU. AND HEIR OF THE HON. STANISLAUS BROWNE, BROTHER TO VISCOUNT MONTAGU; AND HIS SON, FRANCIS, ABOUT THE YER 1755, SETTLED IN SPAIN, WHERE HE LEFT A NUMEROUS ISSUE. THE GREAT-GRANDSON OF MAURICE MATHEW, OF ROOS, SECOND SON OF ROBERT, OF CASTLE MENYCH, TOBIAS MATHEW, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, RANKS DESERVEDLY AMONG THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH PRELATES. HIS GRACE D. 29 MARCH 1628, AND HIS SON SIR TOBY MATHEW, M.P. FOR ST. ALBANS, D. UNM. IN 1655. THE FOREGOING, THOUGH IT APPEARS TO BE SOMEWHAT MIXED UP, IS GIVEN FOR INFORMATION ONLY.

Sir married Alice THOMAS. Alice (daughter of Jenkin THOMAS) was born about 1410 in Lngtwg Dyfryn Wysg, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sir married Unknown LLEWELLYN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./
The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America - Denver Public Library - with additions from Samuel Mathews

Lineage of the Mathews in America beginning in Wales

1. GWAETHFOED, 1st Lord of Cardigan, Wales m. MORVYDD daughter & heir of OWAIN, Lord of Cardigan
2. AYDAN
3. GWILIM
4. SITSYLT
5. JEVAN
6. MEYRIC
7. JEVAN
8. CARADOC
9. MEYRIC
10. MADOC
11. GRIFFITH GETHYN
12. SIR EVAN m. CECIL dau. of ?
13. SIR MATHEW m. JANET, dau. of RICHARD FLEMING and had 3 sons, ROBERT, Lewis and Sir David (the eldest).
SIR MATHEW was knighted by Richard II in 1386 and is the source of the Mathews surname.
(Sir David Mathews was "Grand Standard Bearer to Henry VI" and was one of the most distinguished men of his time.)
14. ROBERT MATHEWS, the 2nd son of SIR MATHEW, of Castle-Mynech, Wales
15. WILLIAM MATHEWS
16. ROBERT MATHEWS
17. JOHN MATHEWS
[Note: Tobias Mathews, Archbishop of York m. FRANCES BARLOW was, most probably, not related to the below Samuel Mathews. (Sam Elswick, July 2001)]
18. SAMUEL MATHEWS (1592/3? - Mar 1660) m.1(?) FRANCES HINTON. Samuel m.2(?) Frances Greville West Peirsley, her (m.3) She imm. Jan. 29, 1620/1 on the ship Supply. Recent information from Linda Lawhorn indicates that Samuel Mathews "may" have been married previously in England, and that his son, the governor, was by that wife (Samuel's 1st of 3 wives).
SAMUEL MATHEWS was sent to VA ca 1615 (bef. 1619) by King James I.
19. LT. COL. SAMUEL MATHEWS, jr (1718/19? bef. 1629 - 1660) He was Governor of the Colony of VA from 1656 until his death in 1660.
20. JOHN MATHEWS m. ELIZABETH TAVENOR - ca 1674? She was the dau. of MICHAEL TAVENOR & (?).
21. CAPT. SAMUEL MATHEWS (m.1) MISS PAULIN (she d. bef. 1706), of King George Co. VA She was the dau. of COL. THOMAS & ELIZABETH PAULIN.
22. ELIZABETH MATHEWS (ca 1695 - 1751) m. ROBERT TALIAFERRO - ca 1720 (ca 1688 - Feb 1, 1728)

NOTE 2./
Source: History of Greenbrier County
J.R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV
1917
p. 67-72

THE MATHEWS FAMILY

The name of Mathews, in any of its Anglo-Saxon variants, was adopted by the sons of Sir Mathew ap Jevan ap Griffyth Gethyn, tenth in lineal descent from Gwaettfoed, Prince of Cardigan, Wales, whose descendants were long deemed feudal barons of Llandaff, County Glamorgan, Wales. Sir Mathew was knighted in 1386 by Richard II, and his descendants took the name of Mathew or Mathews instead of the Welsh "ap" or "son of," the addition of the "S" signifying to the English the same thing as the Welsh "ap," the Irish "0" and the Scotch "Mac."

The armorial bearings of the Mathews are numerous, Burke, in his General Armoury, devoting over two and one-half pages to the arms, crests and mottoes. In nearly all.the lion is an important figure, and it is said the lion was used as a distinctive device by the descendants of Gwaettfoed, Prince of Cardigan, long before the dawn of heraldry. The bearings used by the Mathews of Virginia and West Virginia are described as follows: Arms: Gyronny of eight, sable and gules, a lion rampant, or. Crest: A demi lion rampant, or. Motto: Heb-d-Dhuw Heb-d-dim a-d-Dhuw a-digon. (Without God nothing, with God enough.)

Sir Mathew ap levan married Jenet, daughter of Richard Fleming, and had three sons: David, Robert and Lewis. The oldest, Sir David, was one of the most distinguished men of his time, having been made grand standard bearer of England by Edward IV, as a reward for saving his life at the battle of
Towton, Palm Sunday 1461. Sir Davis died about 1480 and his tomb, ornamented with his full length figure in full armor. is still in existence in the cathedral in Llandaff, Wales.

The second son, Robert, of Castell-y-Mynach, Wales, was the progenitor of the Mathews family in Virginia. His great-great-grandson was Tobias Mathew, archbishop of York, who married Frances Barlow, and whose son, Samuel Mathews, was horn in 1592 and was sent to Virginia by James I in 1622 as one
of five commissioners "to make particular and diligent inquiry concern-mg the present state of the colony." In 1623 he was commissioned captain of a company to go against the Tanx Powhatan Indians. in 1625 he was appointed one of the king's council in Virginia, Sir Francis Wyatt being governor. He
remained a member of that body until 1644. In December, 1656, he was elected to the council again, this time to that place nearest the governor, and on March 13, 1657, was elected governor of the colony by the House of Burgesses, and remained in office till his death in i660. He owned several plantations,
one of which was first called "Mathews Manour," but afterwards known as "Denbeigh," and it is from the latter that the county seat of Warwick county takes its name, it being located upon that plantation. He also owned "Fleur de Hundred," near Point Comfort. He married the daughter of Sir Thomas Hinton and had by her two sons, Samuel and Francis.

Sir married Jonet FLEMING about 1406. Jonet (daughter of Richard Jenkyn FLEMING and Unknown RAYNE) was born in 1365 in Penelyne, Ogmore, Glamorgan, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note 1./ Notes from site of Barry L Matthews : <>

THE MARRIAGE OF THE FIRST MATHEW, VIZ, MATHEW AP EVAN, TO JANET FLEMING, WHO WAS WHAT WE PRESUME WOULD NOW BE STYLED A "LADY IN HER OWN RIGHT", BEING THE DAU. AND SOLE HEIRESS OF ONE OF THE GREAT FEUDAL BARONS OF GLAMORGAN, GAVE THE STATUS OF BARONS OF GLAMORGAN TO THE ELDEST LINE OF THE MATHEW CLAN FOR FOUR GENERATIONS. JENKIN FLEMING AT THE TIME OF HIS DAUGHTER'S MARRIAGE SEEMS TO HAVE RESIDED IN LLANDAFF, AND HER HUSBAND, MATHEW AP EVAN, WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST OF HIS FAMILY WHO REALLY DWELT WITHIN THE LITTLE CITY, FROM WHICH THE ANCIENT FAMILY SEAT OF CASTELL-Y-MYNACH WAS FIVE MILES DISTANT