Families of Ynys Môn
Isle of Anglesey
Mam Cymru, Mother of Wales. Aberffraw was the seat of the princes.
Tap a region of the map to see who held it.
Families seated in Ynys Môn
- RobertsStrong in the north, the patronymic of Robert, second to Williams in Caernarfonshire.
- HughesSon of Huw / son of Aodh, Welsh patronymic and Irish Mac Aodha under one spelling.
- Pritchardap Richard, the contraction is the mechanism, written into the name.
- House of TudorWelsh in origin, English in destiny, the line that took the throne at Bosworth.
- House of AberffrawThe royal house of Gwynedd, Llywelyn the Great's line, ended at Cilmeri in 1282.
- LlewellynSon of Llywelyn, the surname of the last Prince of Wales.
Historic ties to Ynys Môn
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Ynys Môn.
- Henry VIIThe exile of Welsh blood who landed at Milford Haven with a borrowed army, won the crown of England in the field at Bosworth, ended the Wars of the Roses, and founded the house of Tudor.
- Llywelyn the GreatThe Aberffraw prince whose forty-year political project unified the kingdoms of medieval Wales under a single princely authority, married Joan the natural daughter of King John, and built the constitutional settlement that allowed the principality of Wales to coexist with the Plantagenet crown for two generations after his death.