Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL CEIRIOG - see HUW CEIRIOG
HYWEL CERNYW - see WILLIAMS, HUGH
HYWEL CILAN (fl. c. the end of the 15th century), poet
HYWEL CYNON - see HOWELLS, THOMAS
HYWEL DAFI - see HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS
HYWEL DDA (d. 950), king and legislator He was generally called ' Hywel the Good, son of Cadell, prince of all Wales,' and in 'Brut y Tywysogion' he is called ' the head and cynosure of all the Britons.' He is the only Welsh prince to have been called 'the Good.' He was born towards the end of the 9th century but the place of his birth is unknown. Cadell was one of the sons of Rhodri the Great, and his inheritance was the southern part
HYWEL ERYRI - see EVANS, HUGH
HYWEL FOEL ap GRIFFRI ap PWYLL GWYDDEL (fl. c. 1240-1300), poet
HYWEL GETHIN (fl. c. 1485), poet a native, it is said, of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire. No details concerning his life remain, but the dates given him, by Owen Jones, Gweirydd ap Rhys, Myrddin Fardd, and Wiliam Owen (viz. 1570-1600) are obviously too late, because a cywydd written by him in praise of the four sons of Rhys ap Hywel ap Madog of Llanystumdwy remains in manuscript; these four persons lived at the end of the 15th
HYWEL GETHIN - see HYWEL GETHIN
HYWEL HEILIN (fl. 15th c.), poet
HYWEL HIR (fl. 1600-1640), poet, probably in holy orders

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