DAFYDD LLWYD of HENBLAS or DAFYDD LLWYD ap SION (died 1619), poet and scholar

of the landed family of Henblas (Llangristiolus, Anglesey), who, it is said, graduated from S. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He married Catherine, daughter of Richard Owen of Penmynydd, and about eight children were born to them, three of the sons becoming clergymen. Lewys Dwnn and J. E. Griffith state that he also married Jane, daughter of Llywelyn ap Dafydd of Llandyfrydog (she being his first wife according to Dwnn). Noted for his scholarship, he is said to have known eight languages. A number of his poems, all in strict metre, have been preserved in manuscript. They include an elegy to his wife, Catherine, and three englynion to one of his sons. ' Sir ' Huw Roberts and Richard Cynwal composed elegies upon his death.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Bodewryd MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 2 (28, 162, 209, 212, 213, 217, 218, 240)
• NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 124: Poetry (534)
• Sotheby Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth A, 1, 40, 55
• Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613, under the authority of Clarencieux and Norroy, two kings at arms (Llandovery 1846), ii, 185, 265
• J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 122
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• Angharad Llwyd, A history of the island of Mona, or Anglesey including an account of its natural productions, Druidical antiquities, lives of eminent men, the customs of the court of the ancient welsh princes, &c.: being the prize essay to which was adjudged the first premium at the Royal Beaumaris Eisteddfod, held in the month of August, 1832 (Rhuthun 1833), 277
• John Fisher (ed.), The Cefn Coch MSS. two MSS. of Welsh poetry written principally during the 17th century (Liverpool 1899), 7

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• Wikidata: Q20732750

Published date: 1959

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