Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MAREDUDD ap RHYS GRYG (d. 1271), prince of Deheubarth sanctuary in Gwynedd, he accompanied Llywelyn ap Gruffydd on his victorious expeditions of 1256, his reward being lands round Llanbadarn and Cantref Buellt. He took a leading part in the Welsh victory of Cymerau (1257), but Rhys Fychan having come over to the Welsh side in the course of the battle, Maredudd's sympathies veered in the opposite direction as early as October 1257. Though he participated in
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), baronage in opposition to Henry III and his foreign advisers. The old struggle between the Marshal family and the prince of Gwynedd gave place to an alliance against the forces of the Crown in the war in the Marches, 1233-4. In the first phase of the war the king took Usk from Marshal but a temporary truce was established on 6 September 1233. When Richard refused to restore Caerleon to Morgan ap Hywel
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa kindred, the one lineally descended of Owen Gwynedd, prince of Wales, consisting then and now of four houses, viz., Keselgyfarch, y Llys ynghefn y fann, now called Ystymkegid, Clenenny, and Brynkir, Glasfryn or Cwmstrallyn; the other sect descended of Collwyn [ap Tangno], wherof are five houses or more, viz. Whelog, Berkin, Bron-y-foel, Gwynfryn, Talhenbont, and the house of Hugh Gwyn ap John Wynne ap
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator , according to D. R. Thomas (A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph), bore ' not the shield of Owen Gwynedd nor of Einion Efell, but that of Cunedda Wledig.' David Maurice matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 3 June 1651. He graduated B.A. 1654/5, and M.A. 1657, from New College. He held the following ecclesiastical preferments - vicar of Llangernyw, 1662; rector of Cegidog S. George, Denbighshire, 1663
MEILYR BRYDYDD (fl. c . 1100-1137), chief court-poet spirit of the Welsh re-awakening which accompanied the rise of the princes of Gwynedd in the 12th century. In the lament Meilyr expresses a wish to be buried on Bardsey. It does not seem probable that he long survived his chief patron, and we know that his son, Gwalchmai, was of age to receive the patronage of Gwynedd princes before 1132 (see Hendreg. MS. 13a).
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author Believe') in 1943 was reprinted. J. E. Meredith was the editor of Credaf, a collection of personal essays by ten lay people around Aberystwyth who used to meet to discuss their Welsh Christian values. In 1962 he prepared a brief study of the life and work of Thomas Levi, one of his predecessors as minister in Tabernacl and contributed to a memorial volume on Gwilym Davies edited by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet Owain Gwynedd ' who sought nor lands nor flocks nor herds save in the vasty deep.' These were the words so utterly misused by Theophilus Evans in Drych y Prif Oesoedd to bolster up the tradition that Madog had discovered America in the 12th century. Moreover, Meredudd ap Rhys must be numbered among the seers of the 15th century He provides evidence of the distress and anarchy prevailing in Wales in
MERFYN FRYCH (d. 844), king of Gwynedd son of Gwriad, probably a Manx chieftain and a reputed descendant of Llywarch Hen, by Ethyllt, a princess of Gwynedd. On the death, in 825, of Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, his mother's uncle, he became king in Anglesey, and later, on the death of Hywel ap Caradog, appears to have acquired the kingship of the adjacent mainland cantrefs. Thus were united the inheritances of the last direct descendants
MEURIG ab IDWAL FOEL (d. 986), nobleman of Gwynedd Youngest son of Idwal Foel. Since he died in the same year as his nephew, Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd, he was never apparently king himself. But the lineage of Rhodri Fawr was preserved in Gwynedd through his descendants - see Idwal ap Meurig.
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator a Christian and pacifist. He died in Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor on 6 October 1994 and the funeral service was held at Pendref chapel and the crematorium in Bangor.
MORRIS, JAN (1926 - 2020), writer prepared to write books full-time, they had decided to base themselves more permanently in Gwynedd. Jan (still going as James) was 36 years old, and had already visited more than seventy countries. After renting them a house in Llanfrothen for a while, Clough Williams-Ellis helped the Morrises find Plas Trefan in Llanystumdwy. It had been on the market for two years, and was 'half-derelict, wildly
MORRIS, WILLIAM (fl. 1829-1873?), assistant to the Education Commissioners of 1846-7 , especially on Carmarthenshire schools proves. Ieuan Gwynedd calls him a Dissenter, but he was not a Dissenter of Ieuan's outlook; another calls him a ' Methodist ' and assumes he was a Wesleyan. In fact, Morris was a Calvinistic Methodist, very active indeed, especially with the Sunday schools. It has been discovered that he was corresponding with Ebenezer Richard, of Tregaron, in 1829 about these schools

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