Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWERFUL FERCH MADOG - see GWERFUL MECHAIN
GWERFUL MECHAIN (1462? - 1500), poetess this. In Eminent Welshmen and Enwogion Cymru she is confused with Gwerful, daughter of Madoc of Tanad; Guto'r Glyn's poems were not addressed to Gwerful Mechain. Gwerful Mechain's poems were born of the whim of the moment; she wrote a beautiful cywydd on the passion of Christ; she produced an occasional striking englyn and she was deeply moved by jealous wives, and scurrilous poets such as Ieuan Dyfi
IEUAN DYFI (1461? - 1500), poet manuscript, seems to have been highly popular among the bards and copyists of the period. Gwerful Mechain wrote a caustic reply.
JONES, THOMAS ROBERT (Gwerfulyn; 1802 - 1856), founder of the charitable movement, the True Ivorites Born in Maes Gwerful, Llannefydd, Denbigh, in 1802. He followed his trade as a shoe-maker in Ruabon, Cefn-mawr and Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy, where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Evan Price, Baptist minister of Llanfyllin, in 1834. He established Welsh societies (Cymreigyddion) in all these areas and he was a regular contributor to the Welsh Baptist journals. He conceived the idea of setting
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (d. c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Caradog and Gwladus, daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Tewdwr. Always an unwilling vassal of the Norman lords of Glamorgan, he was closely identified with the policy of his cousin, the 'lord' Rhys, and was probably the leader of the Glamorgan rising of 1183 (?). He was twice married: (1) to Gwenllian, daughter of Ifor Bach; (2) to Gwerful, daughter of Idnerth ap Cadwgan. He had at least four
MORGAN ap HYWEL (fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon , Morgan died, a little before 15 March 1248, still deprived of Caerleon. He was followed by his grandson, MERDUDD (son of his daughter Gwerful), who died in 1270 - see the article Morgan (fl. 1294-5). The lordship, like other Clare lands in Gwent, came into the hands of Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Gilbert de Clare who fell in 1314, and so eventually into those of the Mortimer family.
TUDUR PENLLYN (c. 1420 - c. 1485-90), bard right of his wife, Gwerful, daughter of Ieuan Fychan ap Ieuan ap Hywel y Gadair ap Gruffydd ap Madog ap Rhirid Flaidd (see Powys Fadog, ii, 119; vi, 119, 129). It appears that, in addition to being a poet, Tudur Penllyn was a sheep grazier and a drover, who traded in the wool of his sheep; this, however, did not prevent him from following the custom of the strolling bards and visiting the halls of the

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