Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet (1588 – 19 July 1649) was a Welsh courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1649.
17-566: Wynn was the second and eldest surviving son of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet , and his wife Sidney, daughter of William Gerard , Lord Chancellor of Ireland . He was a Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire in 1614. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles, Prince of Wales , from 1617 to 1625. He unsuccessfully contested Caernarvonshire in 1621 but in the same election he returned as MP for Ilchester . Wynn accompanied Prince Charles on his voyage to Spain in 1623 and wrote an account of
34-560: A legal challenge to this claim, Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn brought a case against him and Sir John was forced to defend himself in court. He won the case and afterwards was recognised as the most prominent male heir of the House of Gwynedd . Under Welsh succession law the head of the Price of Esgairweddan family at the time, descended through Iorwerth ab Owain Gwynedd and Dafydd II , would lead
51-672: A public nuisance that in 1615 the Council of the Marches of Wales, of which he was a former member, reprimanded him, fined him and briefly imprisoned him. In 1606, he was made a knight and in 1611 became the first of the Wynn baronets . He was interested in several mining ventures and also found time for antiquarian studies. He married Sidney, daughter of Sir William Gerard , Lord Chancellor of Ireland , and his wife Dorothy Barton, by whom he had 10 sons and 2 daughters. His eldest son, John,
68-533: Is a list of Sheriffs of Merionethshire (or Sheriffs of Meirionnydd ). The historic county of Merioneth was originally created in 1284. The administrative county of Merioneth was created from the historic county under the Local Government Act 1888 . A Sheriff is the legal representative of the monarch, and is appointed annually for each county in Wales and England. Their duty is to keep the peace in
85-546: The 17th century, by his marriage with the heiress of the Wynns. On the death of the penultimate duke in 1779, Gwydir was inherited by his sister Priscilla , Baronness Willoughby de Eresby in her own right, whose husband was created Baron Gwydyr . On the death of Alberic, Baron Willoughby de Eresby in 1870, this title (now merged in that of earl of Ancaster ) fell into abeyance between his two daughters, while that of Baron Gwydir passed to his cousin and male heir. Gwydir itself
102-1015: The Gwydir chapel in Llanrwst church and had a bridge built over the River Conwy in 1633. In April 1640, Wynn was elected MP for Andover , for Newton and for Bodmin in the Short Parliament and chose to sit for Andover. He was elected MP for Liverpool for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He sat in parliament until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge and died a few months later in 1649. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Francis D'Arcy of Isleworth and Katherine Legh, but had no issue. The baronetcy passed to his brother Owen . Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet (1553 – 1 March 1627),
119-508: The baptism and death records for them in the Llanrwst parish registry is scant, as two known branches from Gwydir survived past the main line fathered by Sir John, the descendants of his full brother aforementioned and the descendants of his half-brother Edward Wynn of Ystrad which became the Wynnes of Llwyn and Pengwern who died in 1835 with the death of Maurice Wynn of Pengwern. His mother
136-457: The death of Dr. Rice Wynne of Shrewsbury descended from Sir John's younger full brother Robert Wynn of Maesmochnant, and it i presumed the senior male line passed to the Anwyl of Tywyn family although it is uncomfirmed due to accounts of possible lost relatives such as previously not much talked about son(s) of Sir Richard his grandson of whom one may have survived to have offspring yet records past
153-422: The journey, published by Thomas Hearne in 1729. He describes the costumes of Spanish country people and aristocrats. In 1625, he was elected MP for Ilchester again. He was also appointed treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria . He inherited the baronetcy after the death of his father in 1627. In 1629, he was once again groom of the bedchamber to Charles (now crowned King Charles I) and Henrietta Maria. He established
170-711: The senior line and be de jure Princes of Gwynedd, however they died out in the male line in 1702 and the royal title and headship of the House of Aberffraw would have passed then from the Price family to the Wynn Family of Gwydir at that time under the native succession law of Kings laid out in Cyfraith Hywel as descendants of one of the surviving senior lineages of the Welsh Royal Houses. John Wynn's book
187-469: Was Jane (Siân) Bulkeley, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley and his wife Catherine Griffith, and sister of Sir Richard Bulkeley , head of the Anglesey branch of a powerful landowning family, who originally came from Cheshire . He was Member of Parliament for this county in 1586 and served as Sheriff of Caernarvonshire for 1587–88 and 1602–03 and Sheriff of Merionethshire for 1588–89 and 1600–01. He
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#1732797347393204-626: Was a Welsh baronet , Member of Parliament and antiquary . He was the son of Morys Wynn ap John , whom he succeeded in 1580, inheriting Gwydir Castle in Carnarvonshire . John was educated at All Souls College, Oxford (1570, awarded BA 1578) and studied law at Furnival's Inn (1572) and the Inner Temple (1576). He claimed to be directly descended from the princes of Gwynedd through Rhodri ab Owain son of Owain Gwynedd . The known male line from his family died out in 1846 with
221-531: Was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire in 1587, a member of the Council of the Marches of Wales c.1603 and Custos Rotulorum of Caernarvonshire in 1618 (to 1627). Wynn was regarded as quarrelsome and a bad neighbour and landlord. His lawsuits often went on for many years; some were against his own relatives like Sir Richard Bulkeley and the Griffiths of Penrhyn Castle . He became regarded as such
238-465: Was first published by Daines Barrington in 1770, and in 1878 an edition was published at Oswestry . It is valuable as the only work which describes the state of society in North Wales in the 15th and the earlier part of the 16th century. At Llanrwst Wynn founded a hospital and endowed a school, now Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy . His estate of Gwydir came to Robert Bertie , first Duke of Ancaster , in
255-430: Was played by actor Sion Rickard, a student studying Performing Arts at Coleg Llandrillo , who arrived with his "wife" in the main square of Llanrwst by horse and carriage from Gwydir Castle , then answered questions from the local town crier, went inside the almshouse to check the standard of what he had built and delivered a speech to the people of Llanrwst . Attribution Sheriff of Merionethshire This
272-446: Was sold by the earl of Ancaster in 1895, the house and part of the estate being bought by Lord Carrington , who also claimed descent from Sir John Wynn. On 28 May 2010, Llanrwst celebrated the 400th anniversary of the almshouses there, which were built by Sir John Wynn to provide shelter for twelve poor older men of the parish. Today, those twelve rooms are used to show different periods of history. In this festival, Sir John Wynn
289-565: Was unhappily married to Eleanor Cave in 1606 and died in Italy in 1614. Sir John's successor was his second and eldest surviving son Richard . His daughter Elizabeth married Sir John Bodvel of Caerfryn, and was the mother of John Bodvel . Another daughter, Mary, married Sir Roger Mostyn . Wynn's work The History of the Gwydir Family , which had a great reputation in North Wales, was intended to assert his claim to royal ancestry. In
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