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Rhys ab Jenkin was granted lands in Trofarth in Bettws yn Rhos, Denbighshire, in 1574, by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Rhys' s grandson, Richard Wynne, was the first of the family to adopt the Wynne surname. He was granted a Crown lease of lands in Trofarth in 1593. The Coed Coch estate came into the hands of the Wynne family when the Rev. Richard Wynne married Gaynor, daughter and heiress of John Wynne of Coed Coch, in the parish of Bettws yn Rhos. Their son, John Wynne (d. 1788) is noted as owning Trofarth, Coed Coch and Plas Newydd. John's son, John Lloyd Wynne (1776-1862) married Mary, eldest daughter and co-heir of John Holland of Teirdan in the parish of Llanelidan, Denbighshire. The estate then descended in the male line until the death in World War I of Edward Henry John Wynne (1893-1916) who predeceased his mother, Anne Gwendolyn, who had married secondly in 1896, Lawrence Alan Brodrick, 2nd son of the 8th Viscount Midleton.

According to the 1873 return of owners of land, John Lloyd Wynne, of Coed-Coch owned 10,197 acres in Wales (all in Denbighshire), with an estimated rental of £9,272.

The Wynn family of Gwydir claimed descent from Owain Gwynedd's second marriage, to Christiana daughter of Goronwy ap Owain ap Edwin, lord of Englefield. Maredudd ap Ifan (c. 1460-1525) of Cwm Penanmaen, Dolwyddelan, bought Gwydir from Dafydd ap Hywel Coetmor. Humphrey Wynn ap Maredudd of Cesailgyfarch, his son, was the first of the family to use the name Wynn. John Wynn (c. 1553-1626) was created a baronet in 1611. Sir John was a member of the Council of Wales and the Marches, deputy lieutenant of Caernarfonshire and twice sheriff of the same county. His son Sir Rchard Wynn became treasurer of Queen Henrietta Maria's household. His grandson, Sir Richard Wynne (d. 1674), 4th baronet, was succeeded by his daughter Mary, his sole heiress. The baronetcy passed to a cousin, on whose death it became extinct. In 1678 Mary Wynne married Robert Bertie (1660-1723), 1st duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and carried the Gwydir estate into that family.