Sir Howel-y-Fwyall ap Gruffudd

• Name	Howel-y-Fwyall ap Gruffudd  [1]
  Prefix	Sir
  Born	Dol-y-penrhyn, Llannor, Caernarvonshire, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Title	Knight  [1]
  Person ID	I516	Mallory Genealogy
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Griffith ap Howel
  Mother	Angharad ferch Tegwared
  Family ID	F4950	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Sir Howel-y-Fwyall, who distinguished himself at Poitiers, and is said to have been the person who took the French king prisoner. On this occasion he received the honour of knighthood, and still further to commemorate his services, his sovereign conferred on him a mess of meat, to be served before his pole-axe forever. This mess, upon his death, was carried down to be distributed among the poor for his soul’s sake, till the reign of ELIZABETH, when the custom was abolished. (History of Gwydyr family.) source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Twenty-Seventh Edition. London, UK: Harrison, 1865.

  
  

• Sources

  [S51] A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Twenty-Seventh Edition, Bernard Burke, (London, UK: Harrison, 1865).