Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NANNEY family Nannau, . 1370-1400), was cousin to Meurig Fychan, author of the famous elegy to Lleucu Llwyd. Gruffydd Llwyd sang the praises of two sons of Meurig Fychan (end of the 14th century); Guto'r Glyn likewise composed an elegy to Meurig Fychan II (period of Henry VI), and a cywydd to thank his son David for the gift of a horse; the polished Wiliam Llŷn adds a panegyric to Gruffydd Nannau (days of Henry VIII
NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE (1897 - 1955), archaeologist Born 21 August 1897 at Fleur-de-Lys, Monmouthshire, son of Albert Henry and Maude Rosetta (née Nash) Williams. The father, a monumental mason, died when the children were quite young, and his widow took by deed-poll the surname Nash-Williams. Victor was educated at Lewis' School, Pengam, and University College, Cardiff, graduating B.A. with first-class hons. in Latin, 1922; M.A., 1923; awarded
NEST (fl. 1120), princess of Deheubarth (almost in her husband's presence) by her kinsman, Owain ap Cadwgan, in 1109, has earned her notoriety as the 'Helen of Wales.' Her numerous offspring included Robert Fitz-Stephen and Henry ' filius regis ' - her child by king Henry I. The date of her death is unknown, but she lived until well after 1136. There were others of the same name less famous than the subject of this notice: Nest, daughter of
NEWCOME, RICHARD (1779 - 1857), cleric Born 8 March 1779 at Gresford, near Wrexham, of which his father was vicar from 1764 to 1803. Son of the Rev. Henry Newcome and Elizabeth his wife, and grand-nephew of Richard Newcome, bishop of Llandaff 1755-61 and of S. Asaph 1761-9, he was educated at Ruthin School and Queens' College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. (1800) and M.A. (1804), was ordained deacon in September 1801 by bishop Bagot and
NORRIS, CHARLES (1779 - 1858), artist Born 24 August 1779, second son of John Norris, a wealthy London merchant, by his wife Catherine (Lynch), the divorced wife of Henry Knight of Tythegston, Glamorganshire. Though not a Welshman by birth, Norris lived and worked in Wales for nearly sixty years. He settled in 1800 at Milford, but removed in 1810 to Tenby, where he died 16 October 1858. The great majority of his pictures are
NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect with Henry Harold Hughes, and The Old Churches of Snowdonia (1924, with H.H. Hughes). He died 9 February 1941.
OLIVER, JOHN (1838 - 1866), poet published in 1867 under the name Cerddi Cystudd by his brother, the Rev. Henry Oliver.
OWAIN ap CADWGAN (d. 1116), prince of Powys Wales. Meanwhile, after two short periods of exile in Ireland, he had succeeded his father, Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, as ' king in Powys (1111). After the royal expedition into Wales in 1114, Henry I, who had always shown considerable patience with Owain, took the precaution of taking him to Normandy where he was knighted in 1115. He left no direct descendants.
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (fl. 1260), prince of Gwynedd eldest son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn by Senena, and brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Some years a prisoner of his brother, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Henry III secured to him a portion of Snowdonia by the treaty of Woodstock (1247). Again deprived by Llywelyn after Bryn Derwin (1254), he spent another long period in confinement, until Llywelyn was obliged to release him after the humiliating defeat of
OWAIN BROGYNTYN (fl. 1160-1188), prince of Powys He was a natural son of Madog ap Maredudd, the last king of Powys. Brought up at Porkington, near Oswestry (Madog held the lordship of Oswestry from 1149 to 1157), a township known among the Welsh as Brogyntyn, he appears to have continued on very good terms with Henry II after his father's death in 1160, for he is recorded as being a royal pensioner as late as 1169. He was still alive in 1188
OWAIN CYFEILIOG (c. 1130 - 1197), prince and poet royal castle of Carreghofa. In 1165 he is found with other princes of Powys and the other Welsh provinces in the great muster under Owain Gwynedd facing Henry II's attack in the Berwyn district. The next year, however, he again joined with Owain Fychan to drive Iorwerth Goch from Mochnant, which they divided between them by a line which still remains as the border of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' later years. Some time was spent in London acquiring - at the Inns of Court - some of the social graces of the courtier. After a further period of apprenticeship as a soldier, he served the crown in several campaigns: he certainly accompanied the Scottish expedition in 1385 and, in 1387, may have supported Henry Bolingborke - the future king Henry IV - at Radcot Bridge. In 1386 he appeared as witness

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