Jane ferch Humphrey (abt. 1520)

Born about 1520 in Wales [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Gruffudd (ap Hywel Nannau) ap Hywel ap Dafydd — married about 1540 in Wales [uncertain]

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Wales [uncertain]

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Jane ferch Humphrey ap Hywel is in a trail badged by the Magna Carta Project to surety baron William de Mowbray (see text below).

Biography

Jane ferch Humphrey ap Hywel was the daughter of Humphrey ap Hywel ap Jenkin of Yns-y-maen-gwyn, Wales and Anne Herbert, daughter of Richard Herbert of Montgomery.^[1] Her date of birth is unknown and is estimated.^[2]

Jane married, as his 2nd wife, Gruffudd ap Hywel of Nannau, son of Hywel ap Dafydd ap Meurig Fychan of Nannau.^[1] The date and place of their marriage is unknown. Gruffudd had been married previously to Elen ferch Tudur Fychan.^[1] Jane and Gruffydd had two sons and three daughters:

• Hugh,^[1] Sheriff of Merionethshire 1587 and was living in 1598^[3]
• John, married Elsbeth ferch Dafydd Llwyd^[1]
• Margaret, wife of William ap Tudor^[1]
• Elizabeth^[1]
• Anne^[1]

Jane's husband, Gruffudd, was living in 1541/2. The dates of death of Jane and her husband are unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. II, page 110, ELLIS 15.
2. ↑ Jane ferch Humphrey's date of birth is an estimate based on a generation of 20-30 years between parent and child. Hugh, her eldest son, signed the Pedigree as head of the family July 24 1588 (DWNN II, page 226).
3. ↑ Samuel Rush Merrick. Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches. (Llandovery, 1846). Online at Archive.org, DWNN II, page 226.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Dwnn, Lewys et al. Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the Marches. (Llandovery: W. Rees, 1846). Online at Archive.org, page 227.
• Glenn, Thomas Allen. Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania. (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970). Online at Google Books, page 147.
• Vaughan - Nanney/Nannau.

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This profile was reviewed and approved for the project 31 Mar 2020 by Thiessen-117.

Jane ferch Humphrey is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron William de Mowbray and is named in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Mowbray to Gateway Ancestor Rowland Ellis (vol. II, pages 110-111 ELLIS). This trail was developed by David Douglass in 2018 and was reviewed, approved and badged by the Magna Carta Project in March/April 2020. See the Magna Carta Trails on Rowland Ellis' profile to view the profiles in that trail.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".