Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD ap IORWERTH (fl. c. 1300-1340) According to a story recorded by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt about 1650, Hywel ap Gruffydd ap Iorwerth was descended from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, founder of one of the so-called 'Fifteen Tribes.' His mother was said to have nursed Edward II after his birth at Caernarvon in 1284; as a result, Hywel enjoyed the favour of the king and was knighted by him. He was a man of great physical strength, able to
IESTYN ap GWRGANT (fl. c. 1081-1093), last independent ruler of Glamorgan Iestyn's name. It describes how Iestyn, through his kinsman Einion ap Collwyn, a fugitive in England, secured Robert Fitzhamon's assistance against Rhys ap Tewdwr, whom he slew at Penrhys. Iestyn paid the Normans but refused Einion's promised reward - his daughter in marriage. Einion recalled the departing Normans, who overthrew Iestyn, divided the lowlands amongst themselves, leaving only the hill
IEUAN ap ROBERT ap MAREDUDD Cesail Gyfarch (1437 - 1468) - see WYNN
IEUAN LLWYD SIEFFRAI (fl. c. 1599-1619), poet of Rhûg (see the article on that family), which asserts a close relationship between himself and the poet, englynion of praise to Pirs Griffith of Penrhyn, others welcoming Richard Hughes to Penllyn, a cywydd of thanks to Robert Vaughan of Llwydiarth (see article on that family) for welcoming the poet to his home, another begging a sword from Maredudd ap Huw Lewys for Foulkes Holland, and a few
IFANS, ROBERT - see ROBERT ab IFAN
IFOR BACH (fl. 1158), lord of Senghenydd dead of night he removed William, earl of Gloucester, Hawise his wife, and Robert their son to his wooded fastnesses, refusing to release them until William had restored the lands filched from him and had bestowed upon him additional territory by way of compensation. He married Nest, sister says ' Brut y Saeson,' to the 'lord' Rhys. He was succeeded (before 1170) by his son Gruffydd.
INNES, JOHN (1853? - 1923), accountant and antiquary Born at Campbelltown, Argyleshire. His father, Robert Vertue Innes, was appointed collector of the South Wales District of Customs at Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, and played a prominent part in the foundation of a higher grade school in the town c. 1863. Innes was an accountant in the service of Messrs. Nevill Druce at Llanelly. On 9 August 1883, at All Saints church, Llanelly, he married Alice Ann
INSOLE, GEORGE (1790 - 1851), colliery proprietor Ireland. In the same year, he pioneered the introduction of South Wales steam coal, in particular Waun Wyllt steam coal from Robert Thomas's mine at Abercanaid, Glamorganshire (see Lewis, Sir William Thomas), to the London market where Tyneside coal had held sway since Tudor times. After the partners were bankrupted in 1831, George received another family inheritance and set up at the mouth of the
IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet illegitimate sons). Iolo Goch's earliest poems date from the 1340s, and he is thought to have been born about 1325. Nothing is known about his bardic training, but the title 'Herod' describing one of his ancestors is interesting in light of the prominence of heraldry in some of his poems. There is evidence in one of his poems to his third cousin Ithel ap Robert of Coedymynydd, archdeacon of St Asaph's, that
IOLO GOCH (c. 1320 - c. 1398), poet in 1356 (Iolo attended his funeral at Carmarthen); elegy upon Tudur Fychan of Tre'r Castell, Anglesey, who died in 1367; panegyric upon Sir Hywel y Fwyall, before 1381; elegy upon Ithel ap Robert, archdeacon of St Asaph, who died 1382; elegy upon Ednyfed and Gronwy, sons of Tudur Fychan (Gronwy was drowned in 1382); panegyric upon Ieuan ab Einion of Chwilog when he was sheriff of Caernarvon (1385
IORWERTH ap BLEDDYN (d. 1111), prince of Powys Son of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, and a co-ruler of Powys at the close of the 11th cent. As vassal of Robert of Montgomery he was involved in the rebellion of 1102. His desertion caused the collapse of the rising, and when he did not receive the whole of the Montgomery inheritance in Wales, as he had hoped, he became troublesome to the Crown, and was imprisoned in 1103. Released in 1110 to deal with his
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon

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