Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CRADOCK, RICHARD (fl. 1660-90), Nonconformist preacher, of the Independent persuasion He was reported by the Llandaff authorities in 1669 as teacher at the Newton Nottage conventicle in company with the Baptist Lewis Thomas, which seems to show Baptists and Independents arriving at a concordat under the stress of persecution; in 1672 he did not take out a licence to preach under the Declaration of Indulgence, but Watkin Cradock did so at his own house in Nottage, this Cradock
CROPPER, THOMAS (1869 - 1923) Buckley, antiquary
CYNIDR (fl. 6th century), saint Few biographical details are known concerning this saint. In both the ' De Situ Brecheniauc ' (Wade-Evans, Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae, 313-5) and the ' Cognacio Brychan ' (op. cit., 315-8), Cynidr is described as the son of Ceingair, daughter of Brychan; but his father's name is not mentioned. The ' Generatio Sancti Egweni ' (op. cit., 319), however, makes Cynidr the son of
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (d. 1346), bishop the temporal claims of the see; there was no attack upon his character ('Flintshire Ministers Accounts,' ed. D. L. Evans in Flintshire Record Series No. 2, xxix-xxxiii). Earlier writers were uncertain as to the year of Dafydd's death and thought that there was no new bishop until 1352. But the papal records show that (after a false start in April 1344) the news of his death in 1346 reached Avignon
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet Thomas Parry in 1952 that it was possible to get a clear view of the extent of his poetic achievement.
DAFYDD AP MAREDUDD GLAIS, murderer, civic official, scribe and translator Roubury and Gruffydd Prouth, for Thomas Kirkham, abbot of the monastery of Vale Royal in Cheshire, in respect of a fine. By 1440-41 he had murdered Gruffydd Prouth and Gruffydd's son Dafydd Fychan. His father, Maredudd, Thomas Glais and John Roubury were all accused of being associated with him. Dafydd was pardoned in return for a £40 fine, but the murder led to a feud with the Prouth family, as a
DAFYDD ap MAREDUDD GLAIS (fl. 1429-1468), cleric, murderer, civic official, and translator of a chronicle of the kings of England into Welsh He was the son of Maredudd Glais, a man who filled a number of municipal offices in Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn between 1411 and 1458. The date of Dafydd's birth is not known and the earliest mention of him in the records is as a pledge with John Robury and Griffith Prouth for Thomas Kirkham, abbot of Vale Royal, in respect of a fine in 1429. The three are described as clerics, and they
DAFYDD ap PHYLIP ap RHYS Syr (fl. c. 1500-1540), poet (probably in holy orders) who was from the parish of Llangyfelach, near Swansea, according to Iolo Morganwg (NLW MSS 13062B (467)). Only one of his poems remains, a cywydd in praise of Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet two, composed on his deathbed, are preserved (on a fly-leaf of Cardiff MS. 7) in the hand of ' Sir ' Thomas Wiliems, who adds that Dafydd, at the time of his death, was constable of Conway castle, having defeated and killed his predecessor - the englynion themselves suggest that Dafydd died of three wounds received in fight. The attribution to Dafydd of two cywyddau addressed respectively to Roger
DAFYDD BENWYN (fl. second half of the 16th century), bards of Glamorgan published by J. Kyrle Fletcher in 1909 - The Gwentian Poems of Dafydd Benwyn. Other poems by the bard were published by T. C. Evans (Cadrawd) in Cyfaill yr Aelwyd.
DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet The man whose name is associated with the first bardic grammar (llyfr cerddwriaeth) which we have, i.e. a work dealing with the art of bardism and verse, and containing also an abridgement of the Latin grammar which was used in schools in the Middle Ages. Scarcely anything of him is known, but as Moel Hiraddug is the name of a hill near Rhuddlan, perhaps Thomas Wiliems is right when he says, in
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

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