Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD NANNAU (fl. c. 1460), poet A member apparently of the Nannau family. He was contemporary with Dafydd ap Maredudd ap Tudur, fl. 1460. Some examples of his work exist in manuscript, and these include an englyn written to the poet Gruffudd Phylip (NLW MS 643B (39b)), a cywydd to the sons of Ieuan Fychan of Pengwern (died c. 1458) (Cardiff MS. 83 (28b)); NLW MS 3049D (500)), and another to Dafydd Llwyd ap Gruffudd Deuddwr
GRUFFUDD, RHISIART (fl. c. 1569), poet No details of his life are to be found, but some of his poems remain in manuscripts. These include two englynion (B.M. Add. MS. 14898 (42b); NLW MS 3037B (324); a poem begging the reconciliation of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Anglesey with his second wife, Agnes, in NLW MS 3048D (490). She was accused of having tried to poison her husband; see Angharad Llwyd, History of Anglesey, 143; and another
GRUFFYDD LLWYD (d. 1375), landowner - see ROBERTS, LEWIS
GRUFFYDD LLWYD Sir (d. 1335), traditional hero of a supposed Welsh revolt in 1322 -17. Edward of Caernarvon, both as prince and as king, put great trust in him. When in 1321, in one of the recurrent crises of his reign, Edward found himself faced by a hostile coalition of Marcher barons led by Roger de Mortimer of Chirk, then justice of Wales, he ordered Gruffydd Llwyd to raise troops in North Wales and link up with the king's suppressing any rebels on his way. Accordingly, in
GWALCHMAI, HUMPHREY (1788 - 1847), Calvinistic Methodist minister , Humphrey Gwalchmai was a far more important man, in his age and in his region, than could well be shown in a brief notice of his career.
GWERFUL MECHAIN (1462? - 1500), poetess All that is known of her is that she was the daughter of Hywel Fychan of Mechain in Powys, confirmation of which is to be found in a cywydd written by Dafydd Llwyd, who sent Llywelyn ap Gutun to her with an expression of his love. It is known that bits of her poems were still preserved in the memory of country folk as late as the 19th century, for both Ap Vychan and Sir Owen M. Edwards refer to
GWILYM ap IEUAN HEN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet Owain of Caereinion (Brogyntyn MS. 1 (128)), and Dafydd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion of Newtown (NLW MS 16B (206)), and other members of the ruling classes of his period. Brogyntyn MS. 2 (437b, 439b, 440b); Cwrtmawr MS 129B (158), Cwrtmawr MS 243B (141); NLW MS 16B (215).
GWILYM DDU O ARFON (fl. c. 1280-1320), poet it is said that he lived in the place called Muriau Gwilym Ddu (Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon). A little of his work remains in manuscript and this includes two poems in praise of Sir Gruffydd Llwyd of Tregarnedd and written while Gruffydd was imprisoned in Rhuddlan castle, and an elegy to Trahaearn Brydydd ap Goronwy, or Trahaearn Brydydd Mawr - Jes. Coll. MS. 1 and 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' (1225, 1229
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore . 1600 - whom he married in 1623, is well known in her own right, as a letter-writer. Harley had made Brampton Bryan and its neighbourhood a sanctuary for expatriated Puritan ministers, and had thus become the patron of Walter Cradoc, Morgan Llwyd, and Vavasor Powell Brilliana Harley, fully at one with her husband in opposition to the Elizabethan Establishment and all its works (as is proved by her
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer His father, who came from Llangadock, Carmarthenshire, to Talgarth, Brecknock, c. 1700, is called 'Howell Powell alias Harris' in the Talgarth parish register; he married Susanna Powell of Trefeca-fach in 1702. Their eldest son, Joseph Harris and another son, Thomas also made names for themselves. Howel, their youngest son, was born 23 January 1714 and was educated at Llwyn-llwyd. From 1732 to
HOLLAND family , Flintshire, by marrying its heiress - the great-great-granddaughter of this couple brought Kinmel to her husband Sir John Carter. Other sons of Pyrs Holland of Kinmel were JOHN HOLLAND, father of WILLIAM HOLLAND of (8) WIGFAIR, S. Asaph - see J. E. Griffith, 102, and the index to Peter Roberts, Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd - and HUMPHREY HOLLAND (died 1612), who by marrying the heiress became Holland of (9) TEIRDAN
HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer a home for a long period at the home of Barbara Llwyd (Mrs. J.O. Evans) and maintained his own 'batch', i.e. a bachelor's cottage, until his marriage, 10 January 1918, to a widow, Mrs. H.M. Durrouzet, daughter of Erw Fair farm, and grand-daughter of W.E. Williams, founder of the district of Treorci in Chubut. They had 3 daughters, two of them good poets, one of whom, Irma, became a chaired bard of

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