Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet an end to anarchy and restore peace. He also wrote an elegy for him, for was there not some tiny trickle of Welsh princely blood in his veins, thanks to his descent from Gwladus Ddu, daughter of Llywelyn the Great ? As might have been expected, Meredudd wrote a number of religious cywyddau. In his didactic poems he wrote of God as the creator of the world, of the passion of Christ, and of the
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel He was the leader of the Glamorgan insurgents during the rising of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294-5. Owing to personal grievances against the De Clares, he claimed to be at war only against the lords of Glamorgan. He may, therefore, have been Morgan ap Maredudd, a direct descendant of Rhydderch ap Iestyn; his father, Maredudd, the last native lord of Caerleon, had been deprived twenty years earlier by
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, from Bledri was LLYWELYN AB IFOR, lord of S. Clears and Gwynfe, who married Angharad, the daughter and sole heir of Sir Morgan ap Maredydd, said to be descended from the Welsh lords of Caerleon and, in her right, acquired the estates of Tredegar and Cyfoeth Feredydd. Of this union there were three children, MORGAN of Tredegar and S. Clears, Ifor Hael, the ancestor of the branch of the family at Gwern
MORGAN, JOHN (d. 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop , who was the son of Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip, grandson of Llywelyn ap Morgan of Tredegar (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations, I, 21; H. T. Evans, Wales and Wars of Roses, 216-8). He was sometimes called 'Young' to distinguish him from another brother called John (Catal. MSS. in B.M. 248). If John Morgan the bishop was indeed the son of Morgan ap Jenkin he was linked through his mother, Joan, daughter of
MORGAN GAM (d. 1241), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Morgan ap Caradog ap Iestyn, probably by Gwenllian, daughter of Ifor Bach. He succeeded his elder brother, Lleision, c. 1213, and, reverting to his father's policy of alliance with the Welsh princes, well served the interests of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth by harassing the Clare lords of Glamorgan. He married, according to the pedigrees, (1) Janet, daughter of Elidyr Ddu, (2) Ellen, daughter of
MORGAN HEN ab OWAIN (d. 975), king of Morgannwg Gwent (see Morgan Mwynfawr), though territories were lost to Dyfed on the western borders. He died at an advanced age, his realm passing to his descendants until his great-great grandson, Meurig, was deprived of Morgannwg by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn.
MORGAN, ALFRED PHILLIPS (1857 - 1942), musician Born 21 May 1857 at Rumney, Monmouthshire, son of David Price and Levia Phillips Morgan. The family moved to Pwllgwilym near Cefn-bedd-Llywelyn, and later at Builth. He was educated at Builth Endowed School, and afterwards he went to Aberystwyth college for a music course under Dr. Joseph Parry and he received tuition at the Tonic Sol-fa College of Music. He won many prizes for composing tunes
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist encouraging and guiding young poets and prose writers as an adjudicator in local and national eisteddfodau and editor of the poetry column of Y Faner. Among those indebted to him include D. Gwenallt Jones, T. Ifor Rees, Caradog Prichard, T. Glynne Davies, J. M. Edwards, Iorwerth C. Peate and Alun Llywelyn-Williams. Dewi Morgan died aged 93 at Bronglais hospital Aberystwyth 1 April 1971 and he was buried in
MORGAN, RHYS (c. 1700 - c. 1775), poet living in the farmhouse of Pencraig-nedd in the parish of Cadoxton in the Vale of Neath. It is possible, although this cannot be proved definitely, that he was one of the descendants of Thomas Llywelyn of Rhigos. Iolo Morganwg says that he was carpenter, weaver, harpist, and a preacher with the Nonconformists. It is tolerably certain that he was a member at the ' Hen dŷ Cwrdd ' ('Old Meeting
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Born at Ty Mawr, Wybrnant, in the parish of Penmachno, the son of John ap Morgan ap Llywelyn, a copyholder on the Gwydir estates, and his wife Lowri, daughter of William ap John ap Madog. Reputed to have received his early education at the hands of a former monk, he entered S. John's College, Cambridge, as a sub-sizar in 1565. He graduated B.A. in 1568, and M.A. in 1571; and later became a B.D
MORTIMER family Wigmore, merged in the larger contest between the barons and Henry III, and, later, in the campaigns of Edward I against Wales. In 1262 and 1266 Mortimer was heavily defeated by Llywelyn, and, in September 1267, by the Treaty of Montgomery, large portions of his land were surrendered to that prince. In November 1276 Mortimer was appointed captain for Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire, and the
MORTIMER, ROGER de (4th earl of March, 4th earl of Ulster), (1374 - 1398) is time he came to Wales, where 'honour is his due.' True, it required some imagination to see in Roger the 'heir to Aberffraw,' on the strength of the farback marriage (1230) between Llywelyn ap Iorwerth's daughter and a Mortimer, but this slender strand could be woven into propaganda of stouter texture. For it is important to remember that in this cywydd we are still in a period far earlier than

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