Ann MATHEW

Female Abt 1490 -


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Ann MATHEW was born about 1490 in Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales (daughter of Sir David MATHEW and Alice VELE).

    Ann married John BAYNHAM about 1512 in Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales. John (son of Alexander BAYNHAM and Margaret Or Anne VANE) was born in 1488 in Westbury On Severn, Gloucestershire, England; died on 06 Aug 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Family/Spouse: Thomas MORGAN. Thomas was born about 1488 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Sir David MATHEW was born about 1458 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales (son of Thomas I MATHEW and Catrin Verch Morgan ap LLEWELLYN); died on 03 Apr 1504 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales.

    Sir married Alice VELE. Alice was born about 1466 in Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Alice VELE was born about 1466 in Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales.
    Children:
    1. 1. Ann MATHEW was born about 1490 in Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Thomas I MATHEW was born in 1438 in Llandaff Court, Glamorgan, Wales (son of Sir Knight Dafydd MATHEW and Gwenllian (Wenllian Herbert) Verch DAFYDD); died in 1470 in St. Marks Gaunts, Bristol Gloucestershire, England; was buried in St. Marks Gaunts, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

    Notes:

    Notes from site of Barry L Matthews: <>

    THOMAS MATHEW OF RADYR DIED 1470, BURIED AT MARK'S, GUANTS, NEAR BRISTOL; HE WAS FOURTH SON OF SIR DAVID MATHEW OF LLANDAFF; M. CATHERINE DAU. AND CO-H. OF SIR DAVID L1 AP EVAN-GETHYN, LORD OF THE ADWR, AP L1 OF RADYR UCHA, AP CYMER AP CYNFRIG AP HOWEL AP MADOC AP JESTYN BY EVA, DAU. OF GWILIM AP EVAN AP LYSON. THOMAS IS ALSO GIVEN AS FOUNDER OF THE RADYR BRANCH; M. CATHERINE. D. AND CO-H. OF MORGAN LLEN, LORD OF ALDER, WHOSE MARRIAGE PORTION WAS THE RADYR ESTATE. HE OB. 1470. HE SUCCEEDED HIS FATHER AS CUSTODIAN OF THE RELIC OF ST. TEILO.
    ARMS OF THOMAS MATHEW - OR, A LION RAMPANY SABLE, LANGUED AND ARMED GULES. CREST - HEATHCOCK, SABLE.
    Will dated 1470; Cardiff records, vol. III, chapter V. Will no. 1; Thomas Mathewe, Esq. of Radyr; to be buried at Gaunts. Listed in will: David Mathewe, eldest son; John Mathewe, son; Katherine, wife;

    Thomas married Catrin Verch Morgan ap LLEWELLYN about 1454 in Radyr, Glamorgans Wales. Catrin (daughter of Morgan Ap LLEWELYN) was born about 1436 in Radyr, Glamorgans, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Catrin Verch Morgan ap LLEWELLYN was born about 1436 in Radyr, Glamorgans, Wales (daughter of Morgan Ap LLEWELYN).
    Children:
    1. Janet MATHEW was born about 1455 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales; died in 1535 in Wales.
    2. 2. Sir David MATHEW was born about 1458 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 03 Apr 1504 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales.
    3. John MATHEW was born about 1462 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales.
    4. Thomas MATHEW was born about 1464 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales.
    5. Edward MATHEW was born about 1468 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales.
    6. Mathew MATHEW was born in 1468 in Radyr, Glamorgans, Wales.
    7. Morgan MATHEW was born about 1470 in Sweldon Caerau, Glamorgan, Wales.
    8. Margaret MATHEW was born about 1472 in Radyr,Glamorgans,Wales.
    9. Sir William MATHEW was born about 1460 in Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 10 Mar 1528 in Llandaff,Glamorganshire,Wales.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Sir Knight Dafydd MATHEW was born about 1405 in Llandaff Court, Cibwr, Glamorganshire, Wales (son of Sir Knight Mathew Ap IEUAN and Jonet FLEMING); died in 1484 in Roit, Neath, Langstone, Glamorganshire, Wales; was buried in St. Mary's, Llandaf, Glamorgan, Wales.

    Notes:

    From Here to Antiquity by Richard Woodville at: <>

    The following sources have been used to trace the continuing line of Mathew. "Genealogy of the Earls of Llandaff"; "LDS records"; "Glamorgan Pedigrees"; Welsh Genealogies"
    Sir Dafydd ap Mathew was born abt. 1400 in Llandaff Court, Glamorgan, Wales and died 1484 in Neath. Married abt. 1428 in Llandaff to Wenllian Herbert who was born 1411 in Aberqavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouthshire, England and daughter of George Herbert of Chapel and sister to Gwilim Llwyd who married Wenllian David of Rhiwperra.
    Sir Knight Dafydd Mathew
    Sir David ap Mathew, buried at St. Mary's, Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales. GGGG-son of Louis VI of France. Family line of Llandaff Court; Radyr; Dodbroke Co. Devon and of Teesenger and Pennytenny Co., Cornwall. Owned 2,232 acres of land from Henry VI in St. Fagan's and Pentyrch, Wales. His tomb, ornamented with his full length figure in alabaster, in St. Mary's Chapel, of the venerable cathedral of Llandaff, (which has ever since been the property and burial place of the family of Mathew) is one of the most interesting extant monuments of that time. An accurate description of the various monuments of the family in this chapel may be found in willis's cathedral of Llandaff, in the British Museum). "The Genealogy of the Earls of Llandaff Note-I have no idea why, in this book, the title is spelled thus: "Landaff" as well as any mentions of the Earldom of Landaff, while in the text, mentions of the Cathedral of Llandaff, as well as other references to Llandaff as a place in Wales, invariably spell it "Llandaff"), which has a picture of the tomb of Sir David, has the following to say about him: "Sir David ab Mathew", Lord of Llandaff, Seneschal of the Cathedral, saved the life of Edward IV, at the Battle of Towton, Palm Sunday, March 14, 1461, and by His Majesty was created Grand Standard-Bearer of all England. He was a great and zealous Yorkist cheiftain, whose extraordinary prowess and daring in the field, even at a very advanced age, were, contrarily to the majority of his countrymen, who favoured the Red Rose of Lancaster, used on behalf of the White Rose of York. He was murdered by one of the Tubervilles in a riot at Neath in 1484 and buried in Llandaff Cathedral, where his altar tomb may be still be seen, the effigy of him thereon measuring 6 ft. 7 in., said to have been his height. Sir David was one of the Ten Great Barons of Glamorgan, and a Marcher Lord. He received from Edward IV, the grant of the use of the word "Towton" as an augmentation over his crest.

    In 1480 he restored the shrine of St. Teilo which had been pillaged and descreated by a gang of pirates from Bristol, and was presented by Bishop Marshall with St. Teilo's skull, set in a costly reliquary, to be an heirloom in his family, who carefully preserved it for about 200 years, until the death of William Mathew in 1658 at Llandeilo. Sir David was the first to adopt the surname of Mathew.

    Arms of Sir David Mathew - Sable a lion rempant argent (adopted in honour of the White Rose). Crest - a blackcock proper.. Motto - Fyn Duw A Fydd. What God Willeth Wil Be.

    Notes from the "Red Dragon" magazine:

    An effigy of alabaster in Llandaff Cathedral, bearing date A.D. 1480 (or 1490, the broken numerals make it difficult to say), measuring six feet seven inches, is said to represent the exact life-size of Sir David Mathew, reputed as a man of splendid build and stature, using the two handed sword with amazing power. He was one of the ten great Barons of Glamorgan; a Marcher Lord, and therefore bound to receive his summons to arms only from the King and not from any Welsh potentate. He was an eminent Yorkist leader, and it is said changed his armorial bearing of the old sable lion of Gwaithvoed to a silver or white lion, in honour of the White Rose. Whether it was in recognition of their services in the Yorkist cause we cannot say, but in 1459, Sir David Mathew and Sir John Neville received conjointly the grant of the Crown Manors of Glaspool and Peterston-on-Ely, in the reign of Henry VII. It is also said that Sir David received a gift of lands from King Edward IV., whose life he had saved on the battle field of Towton, but we have not yet been able to find the Royal Charter conferring such gift. Other gifts of land he, however, received, some of which were settled first on the line of his third son Thomas, and failing him, on Reynbourn, who ranked as eldest son of Sir David. John, the eldest, having been slain at that same battle of Towton, fought on Palm Sunday, 1461, leaving an only daughter, an infant, we here hazard the conjecture that this bestowal of lands, or a similar circumstance, gave occasion for the motto adopted, but not in ariably used, by the Llandaff branch, "Not a gift, but an inheritance; an inheritance is better than a gift." This motto was often used by the Admiral Thomas Mathews, and the impression from his seal containing it, is sharp and clear on some of the old deeds. We need not continue to trace the house of Llandaff. A full pedigree from Gwaithvoed, 1055, to the second Reynbourn, A.D. 1615, may be found in the British Museum, Harleian, MSS., Press Number 2283, pg. 68. Four generations of this line took rank as Barons of Glamorgan. But, the old feudal baronages at length gave way to a new order of things; the Lords Llandaff were no longer summoned to bring "horse and arms." Titles by writ of summons were not an serving as High Sheriff of Glamorgan, appears only as "Miles Mathew, Esq..

    A curious old Yorkist ballad makes reference to the banners of Neville and Mathew thus -
    "The way into the North Countrie,
    The Rose full fast he sought,
    With him went the Ragged Staff - (Neville)
    Which many men dere bought.
    So then did the White Lyon (Mathew), full worthily he wrought,
    Almightly Jesus bless his soul that through armes ought."

    Knight married Gwenllian (Wenllian Herbert) Verch DAFYDD about 1430 in Landaff, Glamorganshire, Wales. Gwenllian (daughter of Dafydd Ap GWILYM and Gwenllian Verch PHILIP, daughter of David Ap Gwilln Ap JENKYN) was born in 1411 in Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouthshire, England; died in in Landaff, Glamorganshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Gwenllian (Wenllian Herbert) Verch DAFYDD was born in 1411 in Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouthshire, England (daughter of Dafydd Ap GWILYM and Gwenllian Verch PHILIP, daughter of David Ap Gwilln Ap JENKYN); died in in Landaff, Glamorganshire, Wales.

    Notes:

    SIR DAVID MATHEW (SIR MATHEW AP IEVAN) B. 1400, D. 1484, Married WENLLIAN, DAU. OF SIR GEORGE HERBERT. SIR DAVID MATHEW WAS ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED MEN OF HIS AGE, AND WAS MADE GRAND STANDARD BEARER OF ENGLAND BY KING EDWARD IV, WHOSE LIFE HE IS SAID TO HAVE SAVED (THOUGH HE WAS FAR ADVANCED IN YEARS) AT THE BATTLE OF TOWTON, ON PALM SUNDAY, 1461.

    Children:
    1. John MATHEW was born in 1431 in Llandaff, Cibwr, Glamorgan, Wales; died in 1461 in Slain at Battle of Towton; was buried in St. Woolloos, Newport, Monmouthshire, England.
    2. Jenkyn MATHEW was born about 1432 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales; died in in Cowbridge, Wales.
    3. Rimron MATHEW was born in 1434 in Llandaf,Cibwr,Glamorgan,Wales; died in Sep 1470 in Gants near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in St. Mark's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    4. William Fawr MATHEW was born about 1436 in Llandaf, Cibwr, Glamorgan, Wales.
    5. 4. Thomas I MATHEW was born in 1438 in Llandaff Court, Glamorgan, Wales; died in 1470 in St. Marks Gaunts, Bristol Gloucestershire, England; was buried in St. Marks Gaunts, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    6. Katharine MATHEW was born in 1440 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales.
    7. David MATHEWS was born in 1442 in Trevor, Llewenny & Denbigh, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 03 Apr 1504.
    8. Ellen MATHEW was born in 1445 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales.
    9. Janet MATHEW was born in 1447 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales.
    10. William Lleia MATHEW was born in 1448 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales.
    11. Margared MATHEW was born in 1450 in Llandaff, Cibwr, Glamorgan, Wales.
    12. Jane MATHEW was born in 1454 in Llandaff Court, Cibwr, Glamorgan, Wales.
    13. Joan Margaret MATHEW was born in 1455 in Llandaf, Glamorgan, Wales.

  3. 10.  Morgan Ap LLEWELYN was born about 1378 in Radur, Meisgyn, Glamorgan, Wales (son of Llywelyn Ap IEUAN and Miss Verch IEUAN).
    Children:
    1. 5. Catrin Verch Morgan ap LLEWELLYN was born about 1436 in Radyr, Glamorgans, Wales.