Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet Descended on his father's side from Marchudd (Peniarth MS 127 (57); Powys Fadog, vi, 221), and on his mother's from prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Peniarth MS 127 (105), Peniarth MS 129 (128, 130); Dwnn, ii, 102, 132) - she was Margred, daughter of Rhys Gethin, partisan of Owain Glyn Dwr (on him see Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 66). His exploits during the Wars of the Roses are related in Sir John Wynn's
DAVIES, GETHIN (1846 - 1896), Baptist minister and college principal the Baptist College should be removed there. Gethin Davies recognized that the development of university education in Wales represented an important new departure, and warmly advocated an arrangement by which the more secular work of the denominational colleges should be taken over by the university colleges. In the face of much opposition he gained his point and the removal from Llangollen to
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel Henry Dwn of Croesasgwrn, Llangyndeyrn, in Carmarthenshire, was the son of Gruffudd Dwn (also called Gruffudd Gethin) ap Cadwgan and Annes, daughter of Cadwgan ap Ieuan, and a direct descendant of Llywelyn ap Gwrgan, lord of Cydweli. Dwn first appears in the historical record serving in Picardy and Normandy in 1369 under John of Gaunt, the first Duke of Lancaster, who appointed him steward of the
GETHIN - see JONES, OWEN GETHIN
GETHIN DULAIS - see DAVIES, GETHIN
GETHIN, MAURICE, steward of Aberconwy abbey - see WYNNE
GRUFFUDD ap GRONW GETHIN (fl. c. 1380-1420), poet
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap GRONW GETHIN - see GRUFFUDD ap GRONW GETHIN
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard if he is the author of the cywyddau to Sir Richard Gethin and Mathau Goch then it must be presumed that he started to write a little earlier, i.e. c. 1432-5. Guto'r Glyn was, according to Tudur Aled, the best bard for composing poems to men; the bard himself says, 'ac erioed prydydd gŵr wyf.' He knew how to praise; he also knew how to satirize as is shown by his biting references to Dafydd ab
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales six. Gwen was married three times during her short life. Her first husband, Lewis ap David ap Gwyn, died just two years after marriage. Gwen then married her second husband, Lewis ap David ap Gruffith Gethin (Lewis Gethin), a miller, and in 1588 the couple were living at a mill near Llaneilian-yn-Rhos. After eighteen years of marriage, Gwen was widowed a second time, and in 1592 she married her
HYWEL GETHIN (fl. c. 1485), poet
HYWEL GETHIN - see HYWEL GETHIN

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