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She was Nest, daughter of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063), the first (an d o n l y ) n ative king of all of Wales. Gruffudd did have a daughter named N e s t , w i fe of Osbern FitzRichard , but there is no evidence that she was a l s o m a r ried to Trahaern ap Caradog, and no early source for a second da u g h t e r named Nest.
Sources: Title: " Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400 & AD 1400-1500"
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==Biography==
This is the biography of Nest [II] the second Nest, daughter of Gruffyd d a p L l e w elyn and his second wife Ealdgyth of Mercia
===Disambiguation===
This is not the Nest I who married Trahaearn ap Caradog. "....Gruffudd a l s o h a d a d aughter, Nest, who married Trahaearn ap Caradog. This man, i n 1 0 7 5 , s ucceeded Bleddyn ap Cynfyn as king of Powys, and probably also k i n g o f G w ynedd. Born c. 1035, Trahaearn had sons Owain and Llywarch (a m o n g o t hers) who were born c. 1065/1070. These dates point to c. 1050 a s t h e b i r thdate of Nest, with the marriage taking place shortly after G ru f f u d d's death in 1063.
===Birth===
Nest II ferch Gruffudd was born about 1056 (Wolcott) [ D arrell Wolcott, Ancient Wales Studies. [http://www.ancientwales s t u d i es.org/id210.html The Consorts and Children of Gruffudd ap Llewely n ] A c c e ssed July 8, 2015 ] or in Rhuddlan 1059 (Boyer). [ Carl Boyer 3rd. Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Amer i c a n s . By the author: Santa Clarita, California, 2004. Gruffudd ap L l y w e l yn is #18 on page 287. ]
Wolcott's dating of the birth of the second Nest places her as a daught e r o f G r u ffudd and Ealdgyth.
===Parents===
Nesta, according to Cawley, daughter of Gruffydd and his second wife. < r e f n a m e="fmg399"> Charles Cawley. Foundation for Medieval Genealgy. M e d i e v al Lands Database. Wales [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/WALES.h t m # _ f tnref399 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn ap Seisyll] Accessed October 23, 20 1 8 [ [ D a y-1904|jhd]]
Orderic Vitalis names "Nest" as the daughter of "Edwinus.et Morcarus co m i t e s , filii Algari.Edgivam sororem eorum" and her first husband "Gritf r i d i . regis Guallorum"[422]. The primary source which confirms her marr i a g e h a s not yet been identified.
===1070 Marriage===
She married OSBERN FitzRichard of Richard's Castle, son of RICHARD Fitz S c r o b & h is wife --- (-after [1087/88]).
Nest [II] married about 1070 (possibly) Osbern fitz Richard. Wolcott n o t e s t h at the husband of "this c. 1056 Nest is widely cited by modern a u t h o r s as the Norman man, Osbern fitz Richard. There are, however, no a n c i e n t or even medieval manuscripts which confirm that marriage."
Keats-Rohan, however, in Domesday Descendants shows "Nesta filia Grufyd d , " t h e d aughter of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth (d. 1063) as the w i f e o f O s bern fitz Richard Scrop of Richard's Castle. [ K. S. B. K e a t s - Rohan, Domesday Descendants, Boydell Press: 2002; p. 846, citing D a r l i n gton, Cartulary of Worcester (Register I) (1962-1963), no. 148 ]
The husband of this c. 1056 Nest is widely cited by modern authors as t h e N o r m an man, Osbern fitz Richard. There are, however, no ancient or e v e n m e d ieval manuscripts which confirm that marriage. The identificati o n i s m a d e by inference alone.
===Binley===
The 1086 Domesday Book for Warwickshire notes that Binley (located just e a s t o f C o ventry) was held by the Cathedral Priory, and that 3 hides of t h a t l a n d had been acquired from Osbern. And before the Conquest, those 3 h i d e s w e re held by Ealdgyth wife of Gruffudd. One assumes, but cannot b e c e r t a in, that Osbern had owned the land "et uxor" as the husband of t he h e i r e ss daughter of Ealdgyth. This assumption is strengthened a bi t b y a c . 1 1 0 0/20 entry in the Cartulary of Worchester Cathedral Priory w h ere in H u g h fitz Osbern confirms a grant made by his father "for the so u l s o f h i s father Osbern and his mother Nest". Accordingly, the wife o f O s b e r n was named Nest ferch "unknown".
By assuming such a marrriage, the other sources we mentioned above seem t o d o v e t ail. Ealdgyth (the daughter of Earl Aelfgar) owned some land in B i n l e y , Warwickshire. She married Gruffudd ap Llewelyn and had a daught e r n a m e d Nest, her only child by him.
After the death of Ealdgyth (sometime after 1066), this land descended t o h e r d a u ghter Nest.
Nest married Osbern c. 1070 and he, likely late in life, gave it to the C a t h e d ral Priory in Coventry. Of course, there are other ways in which O s b e r n m ight have acquired that land and other ladies named Nest he migh t h a v e m a rried. Thus, we label the marriage as quite possible but unpr ov e n .
Nest [II] would have been yet a child when her father was killed in 106 3 , a n d l i kely married at age 14 c. 1070
Richard le Scrob/Scrope, born about 1010, built Richard's Castle in Her e f o r d shire about 1048 as a baron of King Edward the Confessor. He was t h e f a t h er of Osbern who married Nest [II] born about 1056.
Osbern held Stanage in Herefordshire according to the 1086 Domesday Boo k . N e s t [ II], the wife of Osbern, was probably, but not certainly, a d a ug h t e r of Gruffudd ap Llewelyn.
===Issue===
#Hugo. "Hugo filius Osberti" donated a saltpan at Droitwich to the mon k s o f W o r cester Cathedral priory, for the souls of "patris mei Osberti e t m a t r i s mee Nest", by charter dated to [early 12th century][423]. They had a son, Hugh, who about 1110, confirmed to the m o n k s o f W orchester Priory, his father's grant of Boraston and the churc h a t D o d d erhill "for the souls of his father, Osbern, and his mother, N es t. " S h e i s not further identified. It was common for a son to confir m g r a n t s made by his father when the father died. [ # N e st. It is known that this second Nest was the mother of a daught e r , a l s o named Nest, who married the Norman knight Bernard Newmarch. Gerald's "Journey through Wales", Book 1, Chapt e r 2 . C i t ed by Darrell Wolcott, Ancient Wales Studies. [http://www.an c i ent w a lesstudies.org/id210.html The Consorts and Children of Gruffudd a p L l e w e lyn] Accessed Jan 6, 2018. [[Day-1904|jhd]] ] Nest (c1071 ) m c 1 0 8 5 t he Norman knight Bernard Newmarch
==Research Notes==
===Nest and the Scottish Stewart Legend===
In stories of the legendary Banquo and his son Fleance, as recounted in R a p h a e l Holinshead's Chronicles, [ Bevington, David . F o u r T r agedies. Bantam, 1988. ISBN 0-553-21283-4, p.714. Cited by W ik i p e d ia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleance Fleance] Accessed Feb 6 , 2 0 1 8 . [ [Day-1904|jhd]] ] Fleance-in fear of Macbeth???flees to W a l e s a n d marries [[Gruffydd-5|Nesta verch Gruffydd]], daughter of [[ap L l e w e l yn-23|Gruffydd ap Llywelyn]], the last native Prince of Wales.
They have a son named Walter who makes his way back to Scotland and is a p p o i n ted Royal Steward. According to legend, he fathered the Stuart mon a r c h s o f England and Scotland. [Shakespeare, Will i a m a n d N icholas Brooke. The Tragedy of Macbeth. Oxford Oxfordshire: Ox f o r d U n iversity Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-283417-7, p. 68. Cited by Wikip e d i a . [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleance Fleance] Accessed Feb 6, 2 0 1 8 . [ [ Day-1904|jhd]] ]
Gruffydd has a daughter, Nest -- in fact, probably two of them! They a r e r e a l p eople, but the rest of this account has no basis in fact. Nei t h e r [ [ Lochaber-1|Banquo]] nor [[Lochaber-2|Fleance]] ever existed, and t h e W a l t er of this story was [[FitzAlan-573|Walter FitzAlan]], son of [[ F i t z F laald-16|Alan FitzFlaald]]. Alan began his life in Brittany but w a s a w a r ded lands by King Henry in Shropshire, adjacent to Wales. Walte r g r e w u p i n Shropshire and moved on to Scotland to serve the kings the re a s H i g h S teward of Scotland.
== Sources ==
See also:
}* Albert F. Schmuhl. The Royal Line. First published New York City M a r c h 1 9 29, Revised March 1980
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