Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century Carregcennen was repaired and garrisoned upon his command. On the verge of the Wars of the Roses, he was on good terms with the court of Henry VI, and after the Yorkist victory at S. Albans, 1455, he lost some of his offices. Yet, he appears to have taken offence at the coming of Edmund, earl of Richmond, to Pembroke, in 1456, if he was the 'Gruffith Suoh' (sic.) who, with the earl of Richmond, was reported
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard ]. Before accepting that view one would like to get further testimony on the two points - the authorship of the cywydd and the year of the death of Rhys. When he was returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella, Spain, Gruffudd's ship was nearly cast ashore 'in the land of Henry,' his enemy. Is this not England, in the time of Henry IV, and therefore some time between 1399 and 1413 ? At what
GRUFFYDD ap GWENWYNWYN (d. 1286), lord of Upper Powys the elder son of Gwenwynwyn by Margaret Corbet of Caus. An infant when his father died, an exile in 1216, he was excluded from his inheritance until after the death of Llywelyn I, meanwhile spending his youth and early manhood in England dependent on royal bounty and his mother's dower. When Dafydd II submitted to Henry III in 1241, the king invested Gruffydd (on strictly feudal terms) with the
GRUFFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1244), prince all his territories and imprisoning him and Owain ap Gruffydd, his eldest son, at Criccieth. This last event occurred in the period just before Llywelyn died (April 1240) or immediately afterwards. On 12 August 1241, Senena, Gruffydd's wife, entered into an agreement with Henry III, arranging for her husband's release and restoration. When, a fortnight later, Dafydd was obliged to submit to the king
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (c. 1090 - 1137), prince of Deheubarth indisposed to resist the Norman monarchy, including Gruffudd ap Cynan who was prepared to hand his young kinsman over to Henry I when in 1115 he sought sanctuary in Gwynedd. The failure of the resistance movement which reached its climax in the open rebellion of 1116 was inevitable. Gruffydd ap Rhys nevertheless reached an accommodation with Henry and was given land in the commote of Caeo. Apart from a
GRUFFYDD, ELIS (fl. c. 1490-1552), 'the soldier of Calais,' copyist, translator, and chronicler ' The Field of the Cloth of Gold,' near Calais, in 1521, when the emperor Charles V met Henry VIII, and also in the army of the duke of Suffolk (Sir Charles Brandon) during the campaign in France between July and Christmas 1523. From the beginning of 1524 until 1529 he was keeper of Sir Robert Wingfield's palace in London; and it was there that he copied what is now Cardiff Phillipps MS. 10823, a
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar practical terms, the appropriate bibliographical skills had to be acquired. The whole area of early modern Welsh literature opened before him and Geraint's scholarship blossomed over the years in a series of publications on the books and writers of the Renaissance, especially the achievement of William Morgan and the 1588 Bible. During these years he became an authority on early Welsh printed books. As a
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor steriotyped social comment, as in ' Y Pharisead ' and ' Sionyn '. Later Gruffydd developed a more direct idiom and a more truly criticial attitude, as in ' Gwladys Rhys ' and ' Thomas Morgan '. It is somewhat surprising that in his final selection for the Gregynog volume in 1932 he included examples both of cloying nostalgia and bitter onslaughts. His best poems are a valuable contribution to Welsh poetry
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector Charlotte's time in mid-century. She espoused various welfare schemes, stimulated by her cousin, the archaeologist, Henry Layard. The death of Sir John Guest in 1852 saw Lady Charlotte take on the running of the works as sole active trustee. The iron trade was by this period past its heyday and in the summer of 1853 Lady Charlotte had to deal with a strike in the works, a situation in which she found
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist descent of king Henry VII. One old record makes Gutun contemporary with Edward IV. It has also been asserted that he accompanied Dafydd ab Edmwnd to the Carmarthen eisteddfod. If we were to accept Iolo Morganwg's date for this (1451), then Gutun must have been a mere lad at that time; but the date is very uncertain. Again, the dates ' 1455 ' and ' 1456 ' which have been assigned to one of Gutun's
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales Thomas Mostyn. Two of Jane Conway's sons were Puritan clergymen who published anti-witchcraft tracts - Henry Holland, author of A Treatise against Witchcraft (1590), and Robert Holland, author of the Welsh-language dialogue Dau Gymro yn taring yn bell o'u gwlad (c. 1595), the latter quite possibly intended to demonstrate the family's opposition to witchcraft following the trial of Gwen ferch Ellis
GWENT, RICHARD (d. 1543), archdeacon of London archbishop's commissary when Cranmer made his metropolitan visitation in 1534. He was prolocutor of convocation in 1536, 1540, and 1541, and was one of those appointed to inquire into the validity of the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Leland in his Encomia alludes to him as 'Richardus Ventanus juridicus' and speaks highly of his virtues and learning.

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