Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN ab OWAIN Lord of Caerleon - see MORGAN ap HYWEL
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (d. c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan charters which Morgan gave to Margam abbey, Lleision and OWAIN are frequently mentioned as co-donors with their father. It would seem that Owain died before Lleision, but dates are uncertain, many of the charters being undated or wrongly dated. Welsh sub-lordships under the suzerainty of the Norman lords of Glamorgan were granted to other members of Iestyn ap Gwrgant's family. To MAREDUDD ap Caradog ap
MORGAN ap HYWEL (fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon under the earls of Gloucester (lords of Glamorgan), a descendant of Rhydderch ap Iestyn ap Gwrgant. It may be useful to enter under his name a note on his family, compiled from Lloyd, A History of Wales (see the genealogy on p. 771 of that work). Caradog ap Gruffudd, grandson of Rhydderch ap Iestyn, was killed in the battle of Mynydd Cam (1081). By 1140 we hear of Caradog's son, OWAIN AP CARADOG
MORGAN HEN ab OWAIN (d. 975), king of Morgannwg grandson of Hywel ap Rhys, founder of a new dynasty in western Glamorgan at the close of the 9th century. Morgan, who succeeded his father, Owain, about 930, was closely associated with the policy of friendship with the West-Saxon monarchy pursued by Hywel Dda, and continued on good terms with the English for at least a few years after the latter's death. In his day Morgannwg once more embraced
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society edited a large-paper illustrated Prayer-book. It was, therefore, natural that he should support Lewis Morris's plans to make a sort of 'academy' of the Cymmrodorion and to publish Welsh poetry under its auspices. But hardly any of its members (until, late in Richard Morris's life, Owain Myfyr, became assistant-secretary) was of any help to him in these matters; Richard, indeed, as the saying went, was
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic draft on syntax was published posthumously in 1931 under the title Welsh Syntax. His scholarship is further exemplified in Taliesin (= Cymm. xxviii), which was begun as a review of J. Gwenogvryn Evans's edition of The Book of Taliesin, but developed into a valuable dissertation, with translations and notes, on some of the historical poems to Urien and his son Owain. Morris-Jones contributed
MORTIMER family Wigmore, died February 1359/60. During the remainder of the 14th century the family does not appear to have played any outstanding part in Welsh affairs. They, however, became connected with the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr at the beginning of the next century. When Roger de Mortimer, 4th earl of March, died in 1398, his son, EDMUND, was still a minor, and consequently Roger's brother, also called EDMUND
MORTIMER, ROGER de (4th earl of March, 4th earl of Ulster), (1374 - 1398) Richard, and the disappointment when this expectation was thwarted may well have been one of the causes of the Glyndŵr rebellion. Once more, Owain Glyndŵr's Penmynydd supporters had no quarrel with a Mortimer, and no cause to love a family which had usurped Mortimer 'rights.' Indeed, many in Wales believed (E.H.R., xxxii, 560; Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 28, 53, 69) that Richard II was still alive.
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, , according to NLW MS 1557C, widow of Edward Stanley.' For how long this land had belonged to Hywel's ancestors the authors do not know, but they surmise that it formed part of the territory of Hywel's ancestor, Edwin of Tegeingl (see under Owain ab Edwin). In 1301 ITHEL FYCHAN did homage and fealty to prince Edward, as earl of Chester, for his Flintshire estates. ' Hywel and his descendants, for the most
NANNEY family Nannau, Nannau'; he had a brother also, and executor of his will, who signs as 'Adam de Nannew.' Nor is there sufficient foundation for the story of Hywel Sele's treachery towards Owain Glyn Dŵr in 1402 - he was grandson to Meurig Fychan - so little indeed that Sir John E. Lloyd, the author of the standard work on the prince, never refers to Hywel at all. But certainly, the poet Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (c
NEST (fl. 1120), princess of Deheubarth (almost in her husband's presence) by her kinsman, Owain ap Cadwgan, in 1109, has earned her notoriety as the 'Helen of Wales.' Her numerous offspring included Robert Fitz-Stephen and Henry ' filius regis ' - her child by king Henry I. The date of her death is unknown, but she lived until well after 1136. There were others of the same name less famous than the subject of this notice: Nest, daughter of
OWAIN ab EDWIN (d. 1105) Tegeingl, landowner He and his brother, Uchtryd, were the reputed sons of Edwin ap Gronw, a great-great-grandson of Hywel Dda by Iwerydd, half-sister of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. Though he assisted earl Hugh of Chester in the latter's abortive expedition against Gwynedd in 1098, his daughter, Angharad, married Gruffudd ap Cynan. His son, Gronw, was the father of Christina, second wife of Owain Gwynedd. He should not be

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