DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (born 1549), poet and member of the landed family

of Lloyd of Dolobran, near Meifod, Montgomeryshire; son of Dafydd Llwyd ab Ieuan (on whom see the article Lloyd of Dolobran) and his wife Eva; husband to Alice, daughter of Dafydd Llwyd of Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr. A number of his poems, in the strict metres, remain in manuscripts. They include some to Gilbert Humphrey of Cefn Digoll, Montgomeryshire (1596), Hywel and Siôn Fychan of [Llanfair] Caereinion (1599), Siôn Huws of Maes y Pandy, near Tal-y-llyn, and Doctor [ David ] Powel, bardic controversies (ymrysonau) between himself and Roger Cyffin, and, also, with Lewys Dwnn, and religious and moral poems. Bedo Hafesp composed an elegy on him (Bodewryd MS. 1 (289)). N.L.W. MS. 5270 (327) contains an englyn presumably by his son John.

Author

• Ray Looker, Cardiff

Sources

• Llanstephan MSS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 133 (640), 155 (98), 167 (30, 140);
• Peniarth Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 87 (69), 151 (79b);
• NLW MSS 836 (39), 5270 (87), 8330 (478);
• Additional Manuscript in the British Museum 14874 (13);
• Cardiff Manuscript 84 (133, 1229);
• Mostyn MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 130 (191);
• Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, iv, 258, ix, 333;
• Burke's Landed Gentry;
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875);
• Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852);
• Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru, i, 92.
• The dates given in Cymru, Enwogion Cymru and Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru are too early.

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Dafydd ap Dafydd Llwyd

Additional Links

• Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20732721

Published date: 1959

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