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Fifteen Tribes of Wales

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in the mid-15th century. These non-identical lists were constructed on the premise that many of the leading Welsh families of their time could trace their descent to the "five royal tribes of Wales" or the "fifteen noble tribes of Gwynedd".
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A more developed example is to be found on two folios of a 16th or 17th-century manuscript in the British Library, Harley MS 1970, folios 34r-v, where the list is accompanied by a number of heraldic designs.
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The basic idea of five regal and fifteen common (i.e. noble) tribes was later used by the antiquarian and genealogist
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In the surviving manuscripts, the first occurrence of the "fifteen tribes of Gwynedd" is probably in parts written by
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Welsh Genealogies. A.D. 300–1400: Welsh Genealogies A.D. 1400–1500
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MS 131. The Welsh headings which stand above the pedigrees of
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on p. 90 all read something like "one of the 15 tribes (
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Bartrum, Peter C. (1962). "Hen Lwythau Gwynedd a'r Mars".
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bards
Gutun Owain
National Library of Wales
Peniarth
Eunydd of Dyffryn Clwyd
Hwfa ap Cynddelw
Gollwyn ap Tangno
British Library
Philip Yorke


The Royal Tribes of Wales
Koch, John T.
ABC-CLIO
National Library of Wales Journal
Siddons, Michael Powell
Categories
Medieval genealogies and succession lists of Wales
Welsh royal houses

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