In the time of Roderick the Great, king of all Wales, Ynyr ap Cadfarch, a
British nobleman, built the Castle of Whittington; to which he was
succeeded by his son Tudor Trevor, who altho’ possessed of many palaces,
with rich and extensive domains, made this his chief residence. By right
of his father he obtained the lordships of both Maelors, Whittington,
Chirk, Oswestry, Ewais, and Urchenfield; and by right of his mother
Rhiengar, the earldom of Hereford. His mother was grand-daughter to
Caradoc Freichfas, who fell in the field of battle at Rhuddlan, A.D. 795,
gloriously maintaining the cause of the Britons against their Pagan
invaders, the Saxons.
The descendants of Tudor continued possessed of the Castle for several
generations; and many families both in this neighbourhood and North
Wales, boast their origin from him.