The Reckoning - 3 (94 page)

Llewelyn's daughter, Gwenllian, lived out her days as a nun at Sempringham priory in the Lincolnshire Fens; she died in June 1337, just before her fifty-fifth birthday. Her cousin, Davyd.d's daughter Gwladys, died at the convent of Sixhills in 1336.
Llewelyn's brother Rhodri lived on in quiet, safe obscvuity upon ^ English manor, dying in 1315. But his grandson, Ow^jn Lawg°cri, achieved fame as a battle commander in France, and wa^ assassinated by an agent of the English
Crown in July 1378.
Nothing is known of Elizabeth de Ferrer's subsequent fate. One historian contends that Edward eventually allowed her a portion of her first husband's dower lands. She is said to have been buried in *ne ancient church of St
Michael's in Caerwys, Wales, in the shadow ol ^e

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castle that had once been Davydd's. That seems to argue against her having married or taken the veil after Davydd's execution. It is not known whether she ever saw any of her children again.
Her eldest son, Llewelyn, or Llelo, as he is known in The Reckoning, died in captivity at Bristol Castle in March 1288; Edward paid for his burial in the
Dominican church at Bristol. Davydd and Elizabeth's second son, Owain, survived into the reign of Edward n. In October 1305, Edward I dispatched a chilling order to the constable of Bristol Castle: henceforth, Owain was to be kept at night in a wooden cage bound with iron. According to the Bristol
Record Society, Owain was still alive in August 1325, still a prisoner of the
English Crown.