Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet Brwynllys or ' Bronllys ' is near Talgarth. His extant work comprises much love poetry of the type which is characteristic of the followers of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with a smaller number of religious and eulogistic poems including an elegy upon Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, 1469. There are also flyting poems between him and Ieuan Deulwyn and Hywel Dafi. He is said to have been buried at
DAFIS, DAFI - see DAVIES, DAVID
DAVIES, DAVID (Dafi Dafis, Rhydcymerau; 1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist preacher
HUW DAFI (fl. 15th-16th century), bard Various poems attributed to 'Huw Dafi,' 'Huw Dafi of Llŷn,' and 'Huw Dafi of Gwynedd,' are found in manuscripts. Nothing is known about the poet - or poets, and it is not clear whether any of these names refer to Huw ap Dafydd of whose poetry many examples are found.
HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS (fl. c. 1450-1480) Raglan, poet HYWEL DAFI of Raglan, according to Peniarth MS 101 (262), a poet of whose work many examples remain in manuscript. These include a few religious and love poems, and a large number addressed in the standard convention to various members of the ruling families of his period in South Wales, e.g. Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Dynevor, Phylip ap Tomas of Llangoed in Brecknock, Rhys ap Siancyn of Glyn Nedd
HYWEL DAFI - see HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS
JONES, DAVID STANLEY (1860 - 1919), Congregationalist minister Born 28 June 1860 at Pantrasol, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, one of the four children of Abraham Jones, of the Llandysul neighbourhood, and his wife Elizabeth, who hailed from near Llangeitho. The father had to seek work in Glamorgan, and the upbringing of the children fell to the mother, on the small homestead of Tŷ-rhos. David (known as ' Dafi Tŷ-rhos') had little schooling, mostly at Talygarreg
LLOYD, DAVID MYRDDIN (1909 - 1981), librarian and Welsh scholar D. Myrddin Lloyd was born 15 April 1909 in 399 Heol Ganol, Fforest-fach (y Gendros), Swansea, the elder of the two sons of William Henry Lloyd, a carpenter from Carmarthen, and his wife, Eleanor, the daughter of Reverend David Davies, 'Dafi Dafis' of Rhydcymerau (1814-1891), a character well known for his humour and stories, many of whose personal characteristics were inherited by his grandson
MORRIS, JAMES (1853 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author interested in the history of his connexion in Carmarthenshire, and produced four books on that subject: Cofiant Dafi Dafis, Rhydcymerau (1907), Cofiant Thomas Jones, Conwyl (1899), Efengylwyr Seion (1905 -biographical sketches), and Hanes Methodistiaeth Sir Gaerfyrddin (1911). They are somewhat uncritical, but interesting and very useful.
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Born between March 1507 and March 1508 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Golden Valley of the River Dore, Ewias / Ewyas, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Myles and his English wife Alice (Milborne). It was a Welsh-speaking household. There are nine bardic poems that refer to Blanche's family: five by Guto'r Glyn and one each by Gwilym Tew, Howel Dafi, Huw Cae Llwyd and Lewys Morgannwg (see article on
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, wall of Tretower Court, and he maintained his family's traditional patronage of Welsh bards. He was unstintingly eulogised by Lewis Glyn Cothi, Dafydd Epynt, Ieuan ap Huw Cae Llwyd, Huw Dafi, and others. His first wife was Cissil, daughter of Morgan ap Jenkin 'ap Philip' of Gwent; the second was Jane, lady Ferrers. Lewis Glyn Cothi addressed an awdl to his three sons, Roger, Watkin, and Henry, but
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, Bredwardine, Thomas ap Roger - see Vaughan family of Hergest, and (Sir) Roger Vaughan - see Vaughan family of Tretower - and that they were brought up with their uterine brothers, William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (died 1469), and Sir Richard Herbert (died 1469), sons of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan (died 1446). Gwladys died in 1454. Hywel Swrdwal or Hywel Dafi composed an elegy on her death. WATKIN

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