Families of Sir Fynwy
Monmouthshire
The Wye, Tintern, Raglan and Chepstow, the deepest Marcher ground.
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Families seated in Sir Fynwy
- LewisLlywelyn anglicised, a princely name carried into common use across the Marches and the south.
- Powellap Hywel, the contracted patronymic that descends from Hywel Dda, the king who wrote Welsh law.
- VaughanFychan, the younger, the descriptive surname that marks a son.
- Bevanab Evan, the contracted patronymic that built the National Health Service.
- Priceap Rhys, the Welsh contraction working on the name of a king.
- RichardsSon of Richard, the -s patronymic that crossed the Marches.
- House of HerbertMarcher house of Pembroke and Raglan, the bridge between the Welsh gentry and the Tudor court.
- WatkinsSon of little Walter, the Norman first name that took Welsh root.
Historic ties to Sir Fynwy
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Sir Fynwy.
- Henry VThe warrior-king born at Monmouth who, outnumbered and hungry in the Picardy mud at Agincourt, broke the chivalry of France in an afternoon and made himself heir to its throne.
- Bertrand RussellThe Trellech-born mathematician-philosopher whose three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913, co-authored with A. N. Whitehead) set the foundations of mathematical logic on the modern footing, whose A History of Western Philosophy (1945) is the most-read English-language history of philosophy of the twentieth century, and whose 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature honoured the work as the central intellectual platform of the post-war English-speaking world.