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, Denbs. Her mother was his first wife, Jonet, daughter of Richard ap Howel of Mostyn (d. 1540).

Alice (or Alice Wen) was b. about 1520, and m., about 1540, David Lloyd ap Rees of Vaynol, one of the Lloyds of Wigfair. Her children were John Lloyd (d. 1615), registrar of S. Asaph, Thomas Lloyd of Vaynol (d. 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 (d. 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

• Wikipedia Article: Alis Wen

Additional Links

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

Published date: 1959

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