Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANARAWD ap RHODRI (d. 916), prince He was the eldest son of Rhodri Mawr (the Great), and, on the death of his father at the hands of the Mercians in 878, succeeded to Anglesey and the adjacent parts of Gwynedd. He was, no doubt, the victor in the battle fought in 881 on the banks of the Conway - a Mercian overthrow which the Welsh regarded as 'God's vengeance for Rhodri.' At first, he sought security from further attack by an
ANIAN (d. 1306?), bishop of Bangor brother Rhodri. In September 1273 he was with him and of his counsel. But, as the clouds gathered for the conflict of 1277, his position became difficult. He was, indeed, a Welshman and Llywelyn's confessor, but he was not prepared to defy the royal power. Soon after 21 March of this year he fled to England and found refuge in the abbey of S. Albans. His relatives fought on the king's side, and the
ANIAN (d. 1293), bishop of St Asaph arrived at in the same year at Berriw, and also to the compact between Llywelyn and Rhodri executed at Caernarvon on 12 April 1272. On 30 October 1272 he appears as the prince's envoy to Henry III, then nearing his end, and is praised by the king as having well performed his task. But Llywelyn's veiled hostility to the new sovereign brought about a change in Anian also. At the end of 1273 he wrote to
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist one daughter, Dalis (born 1966), and two sons, Rhodri (born 1967) and Iestyn (1969-1993). They were divorced in 1975. Cayo was radicalized in the early 1960s, particularly by the flooding of the village of Capel Celyn. It was on the day that the Tryweryn dam was opened, on 21 October 1965, that members of the Free Wales Army were seen in public in their uniforms for the first time. Cayo was one of
CHRISTINA , she actively supported her sons Dafydd and Rhodri, in their attack upon their half-brother Hywel in 1170; an unknown poet, playing upon her name, speaks bitterly of her unchristian behaviour. The Welsh form of her name is Cristin; the ' Crisiant ' of the Gwentian Brut (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, ii, 572) is a fancy of Iolo Morganwg.
CYNAN ap IAGO (d. 1060?), exiled prince was the son of Iago ab Idwal, descended from Rhodri Mawr, and ruler of Gwynedd from 1033 to 1039. Upon the murder of Iago in the latter year by his own men and the accession to power of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, of a different house, Cynan found refuge among the Danes of Dublin. Here he married Ragnhildr, granddaughter of Sitric of the Silken Beard (died 1042), and thus became allied to the royal
CYNAN DINDAETHWY (d. 816), prince was, according to the oldest pedigree, the son of Rhodri, a grandson of Cadwaladr (died 664). Inasmuch as Rhodri (usually found with the epithet 'Molwynog') died in 754 and Cynan is first mentioned in 813, this descent is open to question. His brief appearance in history gathers round a struggle with a certain Hywel, whom Dr. David Powel treats as his brother, for the possession of Anglesey. In
CYNGEN, (d. 855), prince said to have had three sons, none of them appears to have succeeded him; what befell the region is uncertain, but it is likely that Rhodri Mawr became its ruler, claiming through his mother, Nest, who was Cyngen's sister.
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd that year with a raid on Tegeingl, in which he carried off much booty. The death of his father in November 1170 opened up a new prospect; he and his brother Rhodri attacked and slew their half-brother, Hywel ab Owain, in a battle near Pentraeth in Anglesey. In 1173 he made an onset upon another half-brother, Maelgwn ab Owain, and drove him from Anglesey, to find a refuge in Ireland. 1174 was the year
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd all appearances under the tutelage of his mother - with a small share of power as lord of Cymydmaen in the far west of Gwynedd. The first known references to David, however, go back to 1241 when he and a younger brother, Rhodri, became hostages to Henry III under the terms of a royal agreement with Senena, relating to her husband and eldest son. David's political career may be said to have begun
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator Davies (1926-2009). They married in 1952 and although she brought up their four children, Eleri, Rhodri, Catrin and Gwen, in Otley, Yorkshire, she sought to pass on to them their Welsh-language heritage. With her husband she translated André Gide's novel La Symphonie pastorale under the title Y Deillion (1965). After her husband retired from the chair of Spanish in Leeds in 1986, they moved to
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer Born 13 July 1527, in London; son of Rowland Dee, a gentleman server to Henry VIII. He was a grandson of Bedo Ddu of Nant-y-groes, Pilleth, Radnorshire and he retained his connection with the locality. The Dees hailed from Radnorshire (see J. D. Rhys, Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve Linguae Institutiones, 60); Dee himself constructed a pedigree purporting to show his descent from Rhodri Mawr

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