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Nothing certain is known of Owain after 1412.

Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was never captured nor betrayed.

He ignored royal pardons.

Tradition has it that he died and was buried possibly in Corwen church of SS Mael & Sulien close to his home, or possibly at his estate in Sycharth or on the estates of his daughters ' husbands — Kentchurch in south Herefordshire or Monnington in west Herefordshire.

Owain's daughter, Alys, had married, secretly, Sir John Scudamore, the King's appointed Sheriff of Herefordshire.

Somehow he had weathered the rebellion and remained in office.

It was rumoured that Owain finally retreated to their home at Kentchurch.

In his book The Mystery of Jack of Kent and the Fate of Owain Glyndŵr, Alex Gibbon argues that the folk hero Jack of Kent, also known as Siôn Cent – the family chaplain of the Scudamore family – was in fact Owain Glyndŵr himself.

Gibbon points out a number of similarities between Siôn Cent and Glyndŵr ( including physical appearance, age, education, character ) and claims that Owain spent his last years living with Alys passing himself off as an aging Franciscan friar and family tutor.

There are many folktales of Glyndŵr donning disguises to gain advantage over opponents during the rebellion.