Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN ab EDNYFED (fl. c. 1400-1460?), poet the same person, apparently, as one called Llywelyn ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed in some MSS. All his extant work is vaticinatory poetry. The date 1400 is given, together with one copy of a poem by him, in NLW MS 6499B; another poem, definitely composed in 1460, is attributed to him (amongst various other poets) in some MSS. Apart from the above no other dates are available.
LLYWELYN ab OWAIN ap CYNFRIG MOEL (fl. c. 1480?), poet A number of vaticinatory poems and a religious poem composed by him remain in MSS. It appears that he was the same person as Llywelyn ab Owain, a number of other vaticinatory poems by whom are to be found.
LLYWELYN ap CYNFRIG DDU (fl. c. 1460-1500?), poet
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD - see LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1282), Prince of Wales Second son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn by Senena, and grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. His career can be traced no further back than 1245 when he emerges as one of a group of magnates in the entourage of Dafydd II, a fact which suggests that, unlike his father and elder brother, Owain, he was favoured by his uncle, and was possibly regarded as Dafydd's destined heir. After the catastrophe of 1246
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1317), nobleman, soldier and rebel martyr contemporary chronicle has it. All this suggests that he was the son of Gruffydd ap Rhys, a native vassal of the honour of Glamorgan, and a great-grandson of Ifor Bach, lord of Senghenydd, and Nest, granddaughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. Since 1256 Senghenydd had been fully absorbed into the feudal organisation of the honour, and Llywelyn appears to have been on excellent terms with the young earl, Gilbert de
LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet
LLYWELYN ap GUTUN ap IEUAN LYDAN - see LLYWELYN ap GUTUN
LLYWELYN ap GWILYM ap RHYS (fl. 16th century), poet
LLYWELYN ap HYWEL ap IEUAN ap GRONW (fl. c. 1480?), poet
LLYWELYN ap IORWERTH (fl. 1173-1240), prince . The princes of northern Powys were friendly, and after 1216 no serious problem was caused by the princes of the house of Dinefwr, whose lands Llywelyn had, in that year, re-allocated among them at a solemn assembly ' all of the Welsh princes and all the wise men of Gwynedd ' held at Aberdovey. Henceforth his position was never seriously threatened. The antagonism of the Marshall 's, it is true, led
LLYWELYN ap MAREDUDD ab EDNYFED - see LLYWELYN ab EDNYFED

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