Generation 205 · tudor · 56 of 60 · American descent — cadet blood, not the 1313 writ
Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn
Chamberlain of North Wales
Son · husband · father of this house
Cadet. Chamberlain of Wales, not Baron Audley.
Helm or circlet of rank
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Chronicle of this board
Knight of the Bath · Constable of Caernarfon
Sir William Griffith Hael of Penrhyn, Chamberlain of North Wales, Knight of the Bath in 1489, married Joan Troutbeck. His father Gwilym Fychan had received letters of denization in 1440 because his mother was a Stanley — Jonet of Hooton.
The dossier's Welsh bridge is this office, this marriage, this archive-keeping. It is how a Staffordshire cadet becomes a Pennsylvania pioneer without ever sitting as Baron Audley of Heleigh.
Cadet. Chamberlain of Wales, not Baron Audley.
Wardrobe
Tudor chamberlain's chain over a forest-green coat, gold, the Welsh office made English by a Stanley mother and an English marriage.
Weapons · animals · lands
The chamberlain's staff. Letters of denization in the previous generation.
Welsh hunters of Penrhyn.
- Penrhyn
- North Wales office