ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess

Daughter of the gentleman poet, Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llewelyn Fychan (c. 1485 - 1553) of Llannerch in Llewenni Fechan, Denbighshire. Her mother was his first wife, Jonet, daughter of Richard ap Howel of Mostyn (died 1540).

Alice (or Alice Wen) was born about 1520, and married, about 1540, David Lloyd ap Rees of Vaynol, one of the Lloyds of Wigfair. Her children were John Lloyd (died 1615), registrar of S. Asaph, Thomas Lloyd of Vaynol (died 1602), William Lloyd, M.A., rector of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llanfechain, 1590-1600, and Llanwrin, and canon of S. Asaph cathedral, 1587-1600, and Edward Lloyd (died 1639), proctor of S. Asaph.

Little has been preserved of her bardic compositions — englynion on the type of husband she desired and on her views on her father's second marriage in old age, and a cywydd to reconcile Grigor y Moch and Davydd Llwyd Lwdwn.

Author

• Evan David Jones, (1903 - 1987), Aberystwyth

Sources

• History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, v, 297-9;
• Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd (London 1883), 55;
• Peniarth Manuscript in the National Library of Wales 287 (207, 276);
• NLW MSS 1553 (555), 6681 (404), 7008 (105), 11993 (14);
• Cwrtmawr Manuscript in the National Library of Wales 13 (72), 25 (3-4, 103-4);
• Llanstephan Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 49 (132);
• Cardiff Manuscript 19 (742);
• Jes. Coll. MS. at the Bodleian Library, Oxford lxxxviii (43-4).

Further Reading

• Gwen Saunders Jones, Alis Ferch Gruffudd a'r Traddodiad Barddol Benywaidd (Caernarfon 2015)
• Wikipedia Article: Alis Wen

Additional Links

• VIAF: 314905576
• Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18914801

Published date: 1959

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