Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AB ITHEL - see WILLIAMS, JOHN
ALMER family Almer, Pant Iocyn, This family was descended in an unbroken line from the 11th century reconqueror of Denbighshire east of the Dyke, Ithel ab Eunydd. The surname was first adopted by JOHN ALMER, who held minor office at the court of Henry VIII and obtained for his sons John and William posts as sergeants-at-arms. Between 1554 and 1558 Almer was demolished, and its stones used to build Pant Iocyn, a short distance
CADWALADR (d. 1172), prince mistranslation of the Brut by Ab Ithel) and was reconciled to his brother, who drove off the invaders. Trouble still beset him. In 1147 his nephews, Hywel and Cynan, entered Meirionnydd, the one from the south and the other from the north, and attacked his castle of Cynfail, held loyally for him by Morfran, head of the neighbouring 'clas' of Towyn. They were successful and in another two years Cadwaladr gave
CARTER family Kinmel, Kinmel, near Abergele, once the property of a Lloyd family (Yorke, Royal Tribes, 2nd edn., 113), changed hands when Alice, heiress of Gruffudd Lloyd, married Richard ap Dafydd ab Ithel Fychan, of Plas Llaneurgain (Northop). Their daughter and heiress, Catherine, married Pyrs Holland (died 1552), of Faerdref (see Holland families, No. 5); thus was founded the house of Holland of Kinmel (ibid., No
CLYDOG (fl. 500?), saint and martyr the time of king Ithel ap Morgan (c. 750) was acquired by the see of Llandaff. No other church named after this saint is recorded. His festival was observed on 3 November
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (d. 1346), bishop Bishop of St Asaph, succeeded on the death of Llywelyn ap Llywelyn in 1314. According to Iolo Goch (ed. C. Ashton, 273), he was 'of the tribe of Uchtryd ' and, in accordance with this, the pedigrees make him a brother of Ithel Anwyl, and a nephew of Ithel Fychan, both important figures in Flintshire in the early part of the century (Powys Fadog, iii, 106, iv, 154). He may be the ' David ap
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner politician, John Morris. He also became a good friend of the University's Principal, Ifor Evans, and President Dr Thomas Jones. He was disappointed in the Republican Movement, because the medium of debate was English and because they supported Ithel Davies rather than Trefor Morgan as parliamentary candidate in Ogmore in 1950. He withdrew from them, and when the Movement's days came to an end he decided to
DOGMAEL (fl. 6th century), saint No details of the life of S. Dogmael are extant. The Welsh genealogies connect him with one of the three saintly tribes of Wales by making him the son of Ithel ap Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig. To judge from the churches bearing his name, his activities in Wales were confined almost entirely to Pembrokeshire; for Llandudoch or S. Dogmaels (on the Teifi, opposite v) together with Capel Degwel in the
EDERN DAFOD AUR, made a small dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug, and as Iolo Morganwg's copy was the source which was used by John Williams (Ab Ithel, 1811 - 1862) when he edited that grammar for publication he, the editor, gave the published work the title of Dosparth Edeyrn Davod Aur, 1856. Sir John Morris-Jones tried to prove that the grammar attributed to Edern Dafod Aur in the manuscripts was a pseudo-antique work belonging to the 16th
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh eleventh century who are described only as sons of Gruffudd: Owain, who died in 1059, and the brothers Maredudd and Ithel who were killed fighting Bleddyn ap Cynfyn in 1069.
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard is but done in jest. Each bard heaps foul insults upon the other's mother, their lampoons being couched in the language of the gutter. For the eulogizing in the style of the chief bards there is substituted a competition as between writers of obscenities. They were joined in the jest by Iolo Goch, Ithel Ddu, Tudur Goch, and others; see Ashton, Gweithiau Iolo Goch, 404-20, for a fair example of the
GWYNNETH, JOHN (1490? - 1562?), Roman Catholic priest and musician The exact years of his birth and death are not known. He was a Caernarvonshire man, the son of David ap Llewelyn ab Ithel, brother to Robert ap Llewelyn ab Ithel, of Castellmarch, in Llyn, at which place he was probably born, c. 1490. He seems to have been educated at some of the local monastic establishments, whence, with the help of a wealthy patron, he was able to proceed to Oxford. He was

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