Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD BENFRAS (fl. 1230-1260), poet His father's name was Llywarch, and his home was in Anglesey. He wrote eulogies to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, and an elegy upon his death in 1240. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1244) and Dafydd ap Llywelyn (1246) were also the subjects of elegies by Dafydd Benfras. Soon after Llywelyn ap Gruffydd had started on his campaign against his brother Owain in 1255 and against the English of the Middle Country in
DAFYDD BENWYN (fl. second half of the 16th century), bards of Glamorgan His contemporary, Sils ap Siôn, says that he was from Llangeinor. His bardic teacher was Rhisiart Iorwerth (Rhisiart Fynglwyd,), Llangynwyd, son of Iorwerth Fynglwyd. Some of his work, in his autograph, is in Cardiff MS. 10 and Llanstephan MS 164, and there are extant two large collections of his awdlau and cywyddau, the one in Cardiff MS. 2 (277) and the other in Jes. Coll. MS. 13. He was the
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor , following Le Neve, says he was outlawed, as a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in 1406, and adds, on his own information, that he was 'a wealthy man and son of Evan ap David ap Griffith, a descendant of Caradoc ap Iestyn.' More questionable is the assertion that he was the man in whose house the famous Tripartite Indenture was signed. According to the chronicler Hall, the sole authority for the place of
DAFYDD FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1500-1550), poet Son of a poet and a native, presumably, of South Wales. Nothing is known of his life, but some of his poetry remains in manuscript. This includes englynion in praise of Gruffudd Dwnn's mansion in Ystrad Merthyr (Llanstephan MS 40 (60)), a cywydd written to Sir Harry ap Sir Thomas Johns of Abermarlais (Llanstephan MS 30 (444)), and another to Sir John Perrot (see the article on the family) of
DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior was the son of Llywelyn ap Hywel Fychan, a Brecknock landowner of the stock of Einon Sais, whose castle stood at Pen-pont on the river Usk. His byname signified that he squinted or had lost an eye. Tradition averred that he fled from his homeland after killing his relative, Richard of Slwch, in the High Street of Brecon. He first appears, as a king's esquire, in April 1400; in this capacity he
DAFYDD GORLECH (1410? - 1490?), writer of cywyddau brud (vaticinations) Chepstow (see G.G.G., 342). The poet is old and asks for protection. Couplets in the cywydd beginning 'Y brud hen wyd yn bratau' suggest that Dafydd Gorlech survived Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. His cywyddau contain references to prophecies attributed to Myrddin, Taliesin, and Y Bardd Glas.
DAFYDD LLWYD (d. 1619) HENBLAS,, 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
DAFYDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION ap HYWEL (d. before 1469), prominent figure in Cydewain and a generous patron of the 15th century bards wife was Gwenllian, daughter of Meredith ab Owen ap Griffith ab Einion, lord of Towyn. They had two sons and a daughter, Rhys, Robert, and Ellen. RHYS AP DAFYDD LLWYD (died 1469) He was an esquire of the body to Edward IV and his steward in Cydewain, Kerry, Cyfeiliog, and Arwystli. He was also governor of Montgomery castle. He was lost in the battle of Danesmore or Banbury, 1469. An elegy by Dafydd
DAFYDD LLWYD ap HUW (fl. beginning of the 17th century), poet
DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet sons were named Ieuan, Meredudd, and Llywelyn, mention being also made of a daughter named after her mother (Powys Fadog, vi, 37), and possibly of other sons. Besides the vaticinatory poems, there remain poems of controversy between him and Llywelyn ap Gutun and others. Not having to compose for a living, he did not leave many petition poems, panegyrics, or elegies. The objects of his praise
DAFYDD LLWYD ap SION - see DAFYDD LLWYD o'r HENBLAS
DAFYDD LLWYD MATHAU, MATHE, or MATHEW (fl. 1601-1629), poet and strolling minstrel A native, according to J. H. Davies, of Cilpyll, Llangeitho. Poems attributed to him include some in honour of the families of Morfa Mawr in Anglesey (1601) and Llewenni in Denbighshire (1602). In Glamorganshire, the Mansells of Margam, the Powells of Llandow, and the Phillipses of Gelli'r-fid, Llandyfodwg, were similarly honoured so, too, in Pembrokeshire, Thomas ap Richard of Marloes and the

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