Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SIMWNT FYCHAN (c. 1530 - 1606), poet who lived in Tŷ Brith in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. It is sometimes said that he was born in 1526; that cannot be proved, but as he was writing poems c. 1550 it is obvious that he was born before 1530. His bardic teacher was Gruffudd Hiraethog and he was given the grade of pencerdd at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568; a copy of the licence granted to him appears in Y Greal, 1806. Many of his cywyddau
SION BRWYNOG (d. 1567?), poet between him and Gruffudd Hiraethog on the subject of the merits of Anglesey and Tegeingl. He addressed poems to Henry VIII and Mary, and mentions Edward VI, but does not refer to Elizabeth at all. He was a staunch papist who had no love or use for the new religion. His name is not included in the list of bards who attended the 1523 eisteddfod at Caerwys - perhaps he was too young.. He married Jane
SION LEIAF Syr (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric Son of Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf of Denbighshire, and a descendant of Owain Gwynedd (Peniarth MS 127 (20)). No details regarding his life are known, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two religious poems, one being a confession and the other a poem on the vernicle, a poem in praise of Richard Kyffin, dean of Bangor, a love poem, and another to the owl. (The last one is
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet Siôn Tudur died on the eve of Easter Sunday, 3 April 1602, and was buried in S. Asaph church the following Monday, 5 April. In view of the fact that, towards the end of his life, he claimed to be the oldest of all the bards, and that some time before 1580 he had complained to Rhys Gruffudd of Penrhyn that he was growing old, it is suggested that he was born before 1530. His home was at Wigfair, S
SYPYN CYFEILIOG (fl. 1340-1390), poet poet is mentioned by Gruffudd Llwyd (c. 1385) in his 'Cywydd y Cwest,' and also in 'Araith Iolo Goch' (see Areithiau Pros, 12-17).
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, appointment that he sentenced Richard White, the Roman Catholic schoolmaster of Llanidloes, to his death in 1584. Thelwall was an exceptionally gifted man, who, according to Simwnt Fychan, was fluent in eight languages. After the death of Gruffudd Hiraethog, c. 1560, it appears that Simwnt forsook the patronage of the Mostyn family for that of the Thelwall family of Plas y Ward. In an awdl to Simon Thelwall
THOMAS, CLARA (1841 - 1914), landowner and philanthropist death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, near Builth Wells, and was also supportive of plans to erect statue in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd to commemorate Evan James and James James, the authors of the National Anthem. She gave financial support to national and local eisteddfodau, and as a member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion she made regular subscriptions. She considered both
TRAHAEARN ap CARADOG (d. 1081), king of Gwynedd at a low ebb. On Bleddyn's death in 1075, he seized authority in Gwynedd. Challenged by Gruffudd ap Cynan, the representative of the old Venedotian house, he was defeated at Dyffryn Glyngin in Meirionydd, but later in the year he retrieved himself at Bron yr Erw and drove Gruffudd into second exile in Ireland. In 1078 he invaded South Wales and killed its king (Rhys ab Owain) at Goodwick. The
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet Gwenhwyfar, daughter of Rhys ab Einion and wife of Robert Salusbury of Llanrwst (op. cit., I, iv, 38), and it may be assumed that he was a kinsman of Gruffudd ap Dafydd ap Maredudd, mayor of Ruthin, if, as the poet says, he too was one of the descendants of Llywelyn Chwith (op. cit., II, cxix, II). It is difficult to find out when he first started to write poetry, but there are definite references by him
TYDECHO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint century bard Dafydd Llwyd ap Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, who lived at Mathafarn, not far from where S. Tydecho is supposed to have settled. From his ' Cywydd Tydecho Saint ' we learn that the saint lived the life of a hermit with his sister Tegfedd, and was frequently annoyed by that arch-enemy of the saints, Maelgwn Gwynedd. In the following century Mathew Brwmfield wrote a Cywydd to Tydecho and the two
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington recorded to him. It will suffice to name JAMES VAUGHAN, the heir, and the second son ROGER VAUGHAN, who married Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Cornewall. Sybil, wife of Hugh Lewis, Harpton, one of the commissioners who signed Gruffudd Hiraethog's bardic licence in 1545 and was father of John Lewis of Llynwene, was Roger Vaughan's daughter. James Vaughan of Hergest was the other commissioner. His wife was
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, ) THOMAS VAUGHAN, Roger Vaughan - see Vaughan family of Porthaml - and four daughters who married into prominent families, the wives of Robert Raglan, Henry Donne, Morgan Gamage, and Morgan ap Thomas ap Gruffudd ap Nicolas. His second wife was Margaret, lady Powis, daughter of James, lord Audley, by his second wife, Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent. (Her first husband, Sir Richard

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