Cadwgan Dot of Malpas
c
1068 (estimated) to 1128
DOD00011
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Cadwgan Dot of Malpas was an early
medieval figure in Cheshire who bridges the late Saxon era and early Norman
administrative records in Cheshire.
A branch of the Dods of Edge in
Cheshire, now extinct in the male line, and one of the oldest families in
England, which can be traced in a direct line, undoubtedly of Saxon, if not of British
descent, which, says Blakeway, "is in the highest degree probable."
The following is Ormerod's account
of the origin of this family. About the time of Henry II, Hova, son of Cadwgan Dot, married the daughter and heiress
of the Lord of Edge, with whom he had the fourth of that manor. It is probable
that the Lord of Edge was son of Edwin, who before the Conquest was sole
proprietor of eight manors; we may call him a Saxon thane. It appears by Domesday
that Dot was the Saxon lord of sixteen manors, from all of which he was
ejected; we may presume he was identical with Cadwgan Dot. A descent in
the male line, adds Ormerod, from a Saxon noticed in Domesday would be
unique in this county (Cheshire). (Ormerod, George, History of the
County Palatine and City of Chester, Volume 2, page
374; and Blakeway, page 206).
1068
Cadwgan Dot may have been born in or
about 1068 and may have been the son of Dot of Huyton (DOD00010), a Saxon lord holding
20 manors before the Norman Conquest. However he is believed by historians like
George Ormerod to be a descendant or the same person as "Dot," (DOD00010).
Malpas,
Cheshire is about 10km west of Audlem. It was a significant landholding before and
after the Conquest and the precise link with Cadwgan needs to be further
explored. It was previously part of the lands of Earl Edwin, so there may be a
link here in the marriage of Cadwgan’s son.
Could there be a link with Cadwgan
ap Bleddyn (1051–1111), a prince of the Kingdom of Powys, the second son of
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn who was king of both Kingdom of
Powys and Gwynedd.
1128
Cadwgan Dot died.