LIST 4 ARCHDEACONS OF ANGLESEY
ARCHDEACONRY
Churches of Amlwch, Llan-crwys etc. (Anglesey) (Valor IV 417a).
Valuation 1291 £20 (Taxatio p. 290a).
ARCHDEACONS
M. Anian
Archdcn. of Anglesey when el. bp., royal assent 12 Dec. 1267 (CPR 1266-72
p. 173; above, list 1).
An unnamed archdcn. of Anglesey occ. 1275 (LCA I 128).
Madog ap Cynfrig (Matthew) (fn. 13)
First occ. as Matthew, archdcn. of Anglesey, making extents 1283 (J. Beverley Smith,
Llywelyn ap Gruffiidd, Prince of Wales (Cardiff, 1998) p. 554 and n. 154). Occ. as Madoc
son of Kenewreyk, archdcn. of Anglesey, 20 Apr. 1284, when he was gr. benefice of
'Feryetteylu', thus pr. of Welsh royal household (Cal. Var. Chancery Rolls p. 284, also
ibid. p. 292: see Pryce, Native Law p. 148, and H. Pryce, 'The household priest
(offeiriad teulu)', in The Welsh King and his Court, ed. T. M. Charles-Edwards, M. E.
Owen and P. Russell (Cardiff, 2000) pp. 91-2), and as Matthew archdcn. of Anglesey
3 Nov. 1284 (Litt. Wall. no. 243; cf. ibid. no. 97), acting as bp.'s proctor 27 Oct. 1284
(ibid. no. 175). Occ. as Master M. archdcn. of Anglesey 15 Feb. 1287 (Reg. Epp. Peckham
III 940). An unnamed archdcn. of Anglesey occ. 1291 (Taxatio p. 290a). Occ. as
Matthew archdcn, of Anglesey 14 Apr. 1297 (Cal. Var. Chancery Rolls p. 35). Last
occ., as Maddok ap Crenwiz, archdcn, of Anglesey, 22 Apr. 1301 (CPR 1343-5 p. 228).
The next identified archdcn. of Anglesey is M. Anian Sais, (fn. 14) who was el. bp. of
Bangor 5 Aug. x 7 Sept. 1309 (CPR 1307-13 pp. 181, 188; 2 Fasti XI 3, 9).