About a century later, his descendant Owain Glyndwr, a cousin of the Tudors,Okerlund, A.N. (2009). Birth of a Prince. In: Elizabeth of York. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, p. 55 would lose the War of Independence against Henry V, becoming the last Welsh Prince of Wales in 1415.Gower, Jon (2014). The Story of Wales, BBC books, Huw Edwards, Ebury Publishing, Open University, Wales, p. 134Pierce, T. J., (1959). OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 – 1416), 'Prince of Wales'. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 May 2024 Known by Shakespeare as Owen Glendower, he became the granduncle of baron Elissau ap Gruffudd, founder of the House of Yale in 1480, which Elihu belonged to.A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Sir Bernard Burke, Kings of Arms, Vol. II, booksellers to the Prince of Wales, London, 1886, p. 2060-2061 Elissau's mother, Lowry ap Tudor, was Glyndwr's niece, while his father, Griffith ap Einion, was a member of the House of Fitzgerald. Elissau would become co-heir of Glyndwr's claims through his mother, including those of Mathrafal (Powys Fadog), which featured the Lordship of Bromfield and Yale. From his marriage to an heiress within the lordship,The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Biographical, The American Historical Society, New York, 1920, p. 51-52 he received the estate of Allt Llwyn Dragon, which he renamed Plas yn Yale (Yale Manor).Dodd, A. H., (1959). YALE family, of Plâs yn Iâl and Plas Grono Wrexham. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 May 2024 The name would then be adopted by his grandson, Chancellor Thomas Yale (b. 1525), and by Elihu's great-grandfather, Chancellor David Yale, Thomas's nephew.
About a century later, his descendant Owain Glyndwr a cousin of the Tudors,Okerlund, A.N. (2009). Birth of a Prince. In: Elizabeth of York. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, p. 55 would lose the War of Independence against Henry V, becoming the last Welsh Prince of Wales in 1415.Gower, Jon (2014). The Story of Wales, BBC books, Huw Edwards, Ebury Publishing, Open University, Wales, p. 134Pierce, T. J., (1959). OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 – 1416), 'Prince of Wales'. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 May 2024 Known by Shakespeare as Owen Glendower, he became the granduncle of baron Elissau ap Gruffudd, founder of the House of Yale in 1480, which Elihu belonged toA Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Sir Bernard Burke, Kings of Arms, Vol. II, booksellers to the Prince of Wales, London, 1886, p. 2060-2061 Elissau's mother, Lowry ap Tudor, was Glyndwr's niece, while his father, Griffith ap Einion, was a member of ,the Hous.e of Fitzgerald. Elissau would become co-heir of Glyndwr's claims through his mother, including those of Mathrafal (Powys Fadog), which featured th.e Lordship of Bromfield and Yale. From his marriage to an heiress within the lordship,The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Biographical, The American Historical Society, New York, 1920, p. 51-52 he received the estate of Allt Llwyn Dragon, which he renamed Plas yn Yale (Yale Manor).Dodd, A H., (1959). YALE family, of Plâs yn Iâl and Plas Grono Wrexham. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 May 2024 The name would then be adopted by his grandson, Chancellor Thomas Yale (b. 1525), and by Elihu's great-grandfather, Chancellor David Yale, Thomas's nephew.