Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer royal grant, visiting them periodically 'to make merye with his frendes' (Stradling Correspondence, 26, 312). He is said to have died worth £2,500 a year, much of which was lost to his legatees through a fraudulent executor. He was a friend, neighbour, and correspondent of his kinsman John Dee. He was buried in old S. Paul's, where a monument in bas-relief showed him surrounded by the kneeling figures
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, , married Maurice Bassett without the king's licence. They were pardoned in 1383. It was Gilbert's second son, (Sir) WILLIAM GAMAGE, who succeeded to Coety, at the age of 30, on the death of Sir Laurence Berkerolles in 1411. He quitclaimed, on 20 October 1411, to John de Stradling, his right to lands granted by Sir Laurence Berkerolles in Coety. The succession was not established without much bickering
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, . Gwynn Jones, i, 146.) He appears also to have maintained close relationships with Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor. His first wife was Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Stradling of St Donats, Glamorganshire, and his wife, Joan, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, Glamorganshire Sir Thomas Stradling died 1480, and his widow married shortly after Sir Rhys ap Thomas, as his second wife. Poems to William
IORWERTH FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1480-1527), bard also. He sang much to gentlemen in his own province - members of the families of Games, Stradling, Bawdrip, and Mansel, and to David, abbot of Margam, between 1500 and 1517. But his chief patron was Rhys ap Siôn, Aberpergwm, the most distinguished member of that notable family. He visited Kidwelly and Ystrad Tywi also; it may be surmised that one of his favourite haunts was the court of Sir Rhys ap
LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan He was a Glamorgan man by birth and his home was at Llantwit Major. His first patron, Sir Edward Stradling (see the article on the family), lived in the near-by castle of S. Donats, while his friend Iorwerth Fynglwyd also lived in the same neighbourhood. In an elegy to Tudur Aled he acknowledges him to have been his teacher in the art of poetry, and his use of cynghanedd was smooth, accurate, and
MANSEL, BUSSY (1623 - 1699) Briton Ferry, parliamentary commander and Member of Parliament , 1695, and 1698. He had married 17 April 1646, Catherine, daughter of Hugh Perry and widow of Sir Edward Stradling of S. Donat's castle, Glamorgan. (Catherine must have been his first wife). Some of Bussy's correspondence for the period 1670-95 is preserved among the Penrice and Margam muniments; the references are L 104a and b, 126, 149, 190, 206, 224, 228-9, 232-5, 238, 240-2, 244, 260, 263, 293-5
MERRICK, RICE (d. 1586-7), landed gentleman, genealogist, and historian one by Dafydd Benwyn (Cardiff MS. 2, 277, 344-6) and the other by Sils ap Siôn ('Llyfr Hir Llanharan,' 319). His main interest was in the history of Glamorgan and he was assiduous in his search for documents of every kind, Latin and Welsh. In J. M. Traherne, Stradling Correspondence, 1840, 167-8, is a letter which he sent to Sir Edward Stradling of S. Donat's, which shows that these two historians
MORGAN, DAVID THOMAS (c. 1695 - 1746), Jacobite was the son of Thomas and Dorothy Morgan. His father was the second son of William Morgan of Coed-y-gorres, and his mother was the daughter of David Mathew of Llandaff and grand-daughter of Sir Edmund Stradling of S. Donat's. Through his mother he was, therefore, related to the leading gentry of Glamorgan, and through his father he may have been related to the Morgan family of Tredegar. He is
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) grandfather, Miles ap Harri, was married to Joan, a daughter of Sir Harry Stradling of S. Donat's, Glamorganshire, and as Joan's mother was sister to William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, the Herberts too come into the complex. Besides all this, there was kinship between the Parrys and the Cecils of Allt-yr-ynys (which is not far from Bacton); the William Cecil who continued to live at Allt-yr-ynys was in his
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Ewyas Lacy under Sir William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (1st creation) and a supporter of the Duke of York and Edward IV. Blanche's paternal grandparents were Miles ap Harry who married Joan, a daughter of Sir Harry Stradling of St. Donat's, Glamorganshire; Joan's mother was sister to Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, with descent from Sir Dafydd Gam. (In 1811 stained-glass windows commemorating
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian Edward Stradling (see the article on that family) on the Norman conquest of Glamorgan, which had been given to Powel by Blanche Parry. Lastly, he added a very inadequate continuation down to 1584. Using different founts and other devices, he carefully differentiated between Llwyd's text and the added matter. The book was somewhat comically illustrated by 'portraits' of 'the old Welsh princes' - but Sir
PRYS, STAFFORD (1732 - 1784), bookseller and printer of books christened in 1732, the second son of Stafford Price, M.D., and Mary (Evans) - the father of the family of Pertheirin, Llanwnnog, Montgomeryshire, and the mother of the family of Stradling, S. Donats, Glamorganshire Stafford Prys was apprenticed to Thomas Durston, 21 November 1750, and became a freeman of the ' Combrethren of Saddlers … ', Shrewsbury, on 24 May 1758, the year in which he started

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