Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOAN (d. 1237), princess natural daughter of king John by an unknown mother. She was betrothed to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1204, and married to him in 1205. Her role as ambassadress and intermediary between her husband and the Crown in the period 1211-32 was an important one. In spite of the tragic liaison with William de Breos (see Braose family), which resulted in a short term of imprisonment for Joan, Llywelyn's
JOHANNES WALLENSIS (fl. c. 1260-1283), Franciscan friar and writer intermediary between Edward I and prince Llywelyn. Apart from a reference to his being chosen as one of five doctors at Paris to examine the doctrine of Peter John Olivi (Pietro di Giovanni Olivi) in 1283, nothing further is known of his life. After his death and burial in Paris he was honoured with the title of ' Arbor Vitae ' - ' Tree of Life.' John was a voluminous writer, but many of the works attributed
JONES family, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, 'Daniel Owen'. He was also an university external lecturer in the Rhondda and in Cardiganshire. He was noted at university as a writer of englynion and cywyddau as well as a lively and amusing companion; he was an original, powerful and bold preacher. He won the chair at the Gwent eisteddfod in 1913 for an ode on 'Llywelyn ein llyw olaf'; he served as an adjudicator at the national eisteddfod. He
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author for due recognition of the Welsh language within the health service. In 1936 he married Enid Llywelyn Williams (1909-1967), daughter of Dr David Llewelyn Williams and sister to Alun Llywelyn-Williams. They had one daughter, Carys (b. 1937) and one son, Gareth Wyn (b. 1940). During the intense bombing of Liverpool in the Second World War, the family moved first to Enid's parents' house in Old Colwyn
JONES, ENID WYN (1909 - 1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields Born 17 January 1909 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, daughter of Dr. David Llewelyn Williams and Margaret Williams. The poet Alun Llywelyn-Williams was her brother. The family moved to Cardiff just before World War I, but she was brought up at Rhyl during the war. She was a pupil at the Welsh Girls' School, Ashford, from 1919 to 1926, and afterwards was trained as a nurse at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. On
JONES, JOHN (Talhaiarn; 1810 - 1869), architect and poet Awdl y Greadigaeth … 1849; Eisteddfod Genhedlaethol Abertawe, 1863, Awdl er Coffadwriaeth am y diweddar Dywysog Cydweddog 'Albert Dda' … 1863; Gwaith Talhaiarn, the first volume published by H. Williams, 1855, the second by T. Piper, 1862, and the third by W. J. Roberts of Llanrwst, 1869. He wrote the Welsh words for Llywelyn, a dramatic cantata, 1864, and for The Bride of Neath Valley, 1867. He also
JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer of his characters are described, both in his novels and stories, albeit the bizarre similes he uses create an effect that verges on the surreal; indeed Jones in 1937 had written a Welsh-language essay on Surrealism for Alun Llywelyn-Williams's Tir Newydd. Jones's second novel, The Learning Lark (1960) is his least successful, but was noticed in the press in Wales and in London in the light of its
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer theologian Robert Gwyn. After the failure of the devolution campaign in 1979, Rhiannon Davies Jones was inspired to create the oustanding trilogy Cribau Eryri ('The peaks of Snowdon', 1987), Barrug y Bore ('Morning frost', 1989), and Adar Drycin ('Birds of tempest', 1993), covering the period between the reign of Llywelyn Fawr and the fall of Llywelyn the Last. In 2002 when she was suffering from ill
JONES, THOMAS (1648? - 1713), almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher Llywelyn C. Lloyd's monograph on 'The Book Trade in Shropshire' (in Trans. Shropsh. Archaeological Society, xlviii, 1935-36). The list of publications by Thomas Jones (from London and Shrewsbury) is long and impressive. He was most definitely a benefactor to Welsh literature; even his almanacks had more than an ephemeral interest, for they contained poems, most of them hitherto unpublished, by several of
JONES, THOMAS HENRY (1921 - 1965), lecturer and poet Born 21 December 1921 at Cwm Crogau, Llanafan Fawr, Brecknockshire, eldest of the five children of Llywelyn Jones, a foreman roadman and Ruth (née Teideman) his wife. He attended Llanafan school five miles away, and Builth county school. In 1939 he went to U.C.W., Aberystwyth but joined the Royal Navy in 1941 and resumed his studies in 1946 to graduate with first-class honours in English in 1947
JONES, THOMAS ROBERT (Gwerfulyn; 1802 - 1856), founder of the charitable movement, the True Ivorites . David's lodge and the Union which had developed around it declared itself the chief lodge of the whole of Wales and a fierce contention arose between it and T.R. Jones and his followers. St. David's lodge won the day and in 1845 the movement's central office moved from Carmarthen to Swansea. ' Ivorism ' (named after Ifor ap Llywelyn, or Ifor Hael, of Bassaleg) was on the increase throughout Wales and
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge was the eldest son of William ap Griffith ap John (died 1587) and of his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Humphrey Wynn ap Maredudd of Cesail Gyfarch (died 1583), first cousin to the grandfather of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir. His great-grandfather, John ap Robert ap Llywelyn ab Ithel, alias John Roberts, of Castellmarch (Llangïan), was among the first batch of Caernarvonshire local officials

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