Families of Aberconwy
Conwy
The northern coast and the Conwy valley, Edward I's great castle.
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Families seated in Aberconwy
Historic ties to Aberconwy
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Aberconwy.
- 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.
- Sir John Wynn of GwydirThe Conwy Valley laird whose History of the Gwydir Family, composed in his later years and posthumously published, set the template for Welsh genealogical writing and remains the foundational documentary source for the late-Tudor and early-Stuart political life of North Wales.